Month: April 2024
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EXCLUSIVE: Grand Chamber of European Court of Justice takes patent case — question of cross-border jurisdiction
A patent dispute between rival makers of domestic appliances (Germany’sBosch Siemens Hausgeräte and Sweden’s Electrolux) raises a key question of cross-border patent jurisdiction that the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice will discuss at a May 14 hearing.
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Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optional
Huawei and EDMI announced a license agreement today that relates to narrowband IoT standards. EDMI could have licensed the related Huawei patents through a Sisvel pool, but opted for a bilateral agreement, which demonstrates the optionality of patent pools.
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Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictions
Emboldened by a recent vote in the European Parliament and other developments, those advocating the interests of implementers of standard-essential patents are vocal. And not every problem they claim to have identified actually exists.
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Judge Alan D. Albright has already participated in various Federal Circuit hearings and decisions
Context: Temporarily, more patent infringement cases were filed with the Waco division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas as patentees flocked to that court to put their cases in front of Judge Alan D. Albright, a former patent litigator who promised to take patent cases to trial rather swiftly….
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Apple’s opening brief in appeal of Watch case places emphasis on ITC’s domestic industry requirement
Apple has filed its opening brief in the appeal of the Apple Watch import ban ordered by the USITC in October 2023.
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Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. Lava
The Delhi High Court has handed down its ruling in a long-running standard-essential patent dispute between Ericsson and Lava, exposing an extreme case of hold-out behavior.
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Litigation finance: ip fray’s founder helping U.S. litigation boutique raise funds for portfolio of (mostly IP) cases
By Florian Mueller, the founder of ip fray It’s been a little over three months since I launched three new websites (ai fray, games fray, ip fray). Articles and social media posts by all three outlets have been picked up by Techmeme, the leading information and communications technology news aggregator. Key decision makers (from public…