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UK court gives significant weight to Nokia offer in interim-payment ruling against Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount
Read more: UK court gives significant weight to Nokia offer in interim-payment ruling against Warner Bros. Discovery, ParamountThe High Court of Justice for England & Wales has set confidential interim payments pending a November 2026 RAND trial, giving significant weight to Nokia’s prior lump-sum offer and noting that rejection of the streamers’ valuation model could result in a step change worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent: finds “typo” defense insufficient to fix written description gap in provisional filing
Read more: Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent: finds “typo” defense insufficient to fix written description gap in provisional filingThe United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent, rejecting its bid to blame a one-carbon typo in its provisional filing, and leaving Pfizer’s earlier disclosure now free to anticipate the claims.
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Korean monetization platform behind Pantech SEP campaigns targets Hisense, TCL with display patents from Asian tech companies
Read more: Korean monetization platform behind Pantech SEP campaigns targets Hisense, TCL with display patents from Asian tech companiesFairLight Innovations LLC is suing the two Chinese companies in the Eastern District of Texas.
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USPTO Director Squires extends 14-day deadline for Director Review of institution decisions to 30 days – or more “in exceptional circumstances”
Read more: USPTO Director Squires extends 14-day deadline for Director Review of institution decisions to 30 days – or more “in exceptional circumstances”He noted that “changed circumstances can surface after the deadline… has elapsed but before trial has progressed meaningfully” and that sua sponte Director Review is “not always the most efficient process”.
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China’s Supreme People’s Court confirms Innoscience’s China GaN injunctions against Infineon are interim relief
Read more: China’s Supreme People’s Court confirms Innoscience’s China GaN injunctions against Infineon are interim reliefChina’s top court has published its decisions in Innoscience v. Infineon, which support ip fray’s reading of Innoscience’s China GaN win over Infineon as interim relief, not final merits wins.
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Dusseldorf LD grants Evac injunction against Shanghai VacDrain, rejects de facto successor theory against German distributor
Read more: Dusseldorf LD grants Evac injunction against Shanghai VacDrain, rejects de facto successor theory against German distributorThe Dusseldorf LD found infringement of two Evac patents covering vacuum wastewater technology, granted injunctive relief against the manufacturer and its principal, but dismissed claims against a German distributor.
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Heated debate on preliminary injunctions and rate-setting kicks off OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
Read more: Heated debate on preliminary injunctions and rate-setting kicks off OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition ForumOn a panel that featured speakers from Qualcomm, Huawei, Amazon, and Dell, panelists debated over whether injunctions should really exist. An executive from Amazon added that they would be happy to have courts set rates, no matter where they are based, as this causes “less of a port congestion”.
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Lessons for prior art search providers as Federal Circuit again sides with Valve in appeal over game controller patent
Read more: Lessons for prior art search providers as Federal Circuit again sides with Valve in appeal over game controller patent“Something more is required” for estoppel when a classification search returns tens of thousands of results; while forward-and-backward citation searches may result in hindsight bias.
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- UK court gives significant weight to Nokia offer in interim-payment ruling against Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount
- Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent: finds “typo” defense insufficient to fix written description gap in provisional filing
- Korean monetization platform behind Pantech SEP campaigns targets Hisense, TCL with display patents from Asian tech companies
- USPTO Director Squires extends 14-day deadline for Director Review of institution decisions to 30 days – or more “in exceptional circumstances”
- China’s Supreme People’s Court confirms Innoscience’s China GaN injunctions against Infineon are interim relief