Month: July 2024
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German judges and InterDigital effectively lobbying harder for EU SEP Regulation than auto industry and Apple
Despite having lost two rounds of rate-setting litigation in the UK against Lenovo, InterDigital is enforcing a German injunction that is irreconcilable with EU competition law and shows the broken state of German SEP case law.
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Person running shell companies behind 100+ lawsuits over IP Edge patents must testify in person on fraud allegations
The Federal Circuit affirmed an order by a district court to compel a person to testify in court as part of an inquiry into potentially fraudulent litigation conduct involving IP Edge and a number of satellite LLCs.
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Ericsson and OPPO announce license deal while InterDigital unconvincingly attempts to explain away its UK FRAND defeat
Ericsson announces a multi-year license agreement with OPPO, a company against which InterDigital continues to litigate. InterDigital tries to explain away its UK defeat, but the damage is done.
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Lenovo’s major UK win over InterDigital: chart and further analysis
Friday’s UK appellate ruling awards InterDigital a per-unit royalty from Lenovo that amounts to only 45% of what it was seeking.
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Lenovo defeats InterDigital in UK: FRAND rate of 22.5 cents per unit vs. 17.5 cents before, way below InterDigital’s 49 cents
While InterDigital claims victory, the numbers speak a clear langiuage: Lenovo won.
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Automotive lobbyists write to Avanci about derivation of 5G SEP royalty rate, but their letter reflects misconceptions
Automotive lobbying groups from different countries and continents addressed a letter to Avanci about how it arrived at its 5G pool rate.
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EU Commission jumps the gun on SEP Regulation, makes call for tenders that could be waste of time and money
It is astounding that the EU Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) wants to spend time and money on a study about a hypothetical regulation that is not guaranteed to be passed into law in any particular form.
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Explicit split: UPC’s Mannheim LD elects to impose more restrictive confidentiality regime in Panasonic v. OPPO than Munich
The Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division decided to impose stricter confidentiality requirements for the Panasonic-OPPO dispute than its Munich counterpart.
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UK court’s denial of interim SEP license requested by Xiaomi due to specific deficiencies, next case could have different outcome
A UK judge’s denial of a declaration that Xiaomi had an interim license to Panasonic’s standard-pessential patents is a setback for implementers, but does not put the question to rest.
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UPC Roundup: two new appellate decisions, important question for infringement standard, new cases, upcoming hearings
This article merely summarizes and links to several recent LinkedIn posts by ip fray, so as to provide a convenient overview for readers of the website and email subscribers. 1. Two new decisions by the Court of Appeal (Friday and Sunday) (link to LinkedIn post) 2. Important question for infringement standard: what if the solution…