Month: January 2024
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Next example of Chinese inbound & outbound licensing: ZTE, TCL join Sisvel’s cellular IoT pool
Sisvel’s cellular IoT patent pool just announced the addition of three new licensors. The two Chinese companies among them are also major implementers of SEPs, which once again shows it would be a mistake to look at Chinese companies only as patent holders or exclusively as patent users.
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Transparent overleveraging of transparency argument in EU SEP Regulation context
Those supporting the proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents use three buzzwords: IoT, SMEs and transparency. This article discusses only the third one, which is overused and overemphasized.
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Avanci-Zenview announcement on day of Nokia-OPPO settlement shows again: Chinese companies license in, license out
Avanci yesterday announced that Shenzhen-based Zenview has taken a license to its Avanci Broadcast ATSC 3.0 standard-essential patent pool. The same day OPPO reached an agreement with Nokia on a cross-license.
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First major AI patent settlement (Singular v. Google) and Pokémon Company’s game IP threats over Palworld
This article merely points to two new stories on other fray websites than ip fray: ai fray’s article on the Singular-Google settlement and game fray’s article on the Pokémon Company’s threats over a wildly popular new game named Palworld.
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MEP Walsmann’s weak mandate: massive resistance to EU SEP Regulation, “compromise amendments”
With an unusually high number of abstentions (10) indicative and reflective of division, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has just adopted the rapporteur’s “compromise amendments” concerning the EU SEP Regulation. With a view to the plenary vote and interinstitutional discussions, this leaves MEP Walsmann in a severely weakened position.
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Nokia-OPPO 5G patent dispute settled with license agreement after more than 2.5 years and OPPO leaving Germany
The Nokia v. OPPO 5G standard-essential patent dispute is history as the parties have agreed on a global cross-license agreement that puts an end to all litigation. OPPO paid a high price by exiting the German market in 2022, but has recently scored two strategic wins in China and Germany.
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Interesting parallels between EU AI Act and EU SEP Regulation: Council as voice of reason
A leaked document from the legislative process concerning the AI Act reveals interesting parallels between that process and the situation surrounding the envisioned EU SEP regulation.
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Federal Circuit reinstates Apple Watch ban because Apple can sell version without pulse oximetry: what’s next?
The Federal Circuit has reinstated the Apple Watch import and sales ban as of tomorrow, but apparently didn’t weigh the merits of the appeal and focused on the fact Apple has obtained clearance of a workaround version without pulse oximetry.
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OPPO snatched victory from jaws of defeat in Federal Patent Court, may now get decisive leverage over Nokia
The Federal Patent Court of Germany initially deemed OPPO’s EP3445093 invalid, but after a 180-degree turnaround yesterday the patent poses a clear and present injunctive threat to Nokia’s German business. A German injunction could bring about a settlement at long last.