Month: September 2024
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Avanci’s Laurie Fitzgerald in Clause 8 interview: no guarantee that Avanci was going to succeed, “but I really wanted it to work”
The Clause 8 podcast discussed with Avanci Vehicle President Laurie Fitzgerald how the automotive SEP licensing program became a success after initially requiring quite a bit of patience.
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UPC Roundup: first PI affirmance, another SEP settlement, FRAND procedures, joinders, amendments, and more
Context: Since the previous overall (i.e., covering appeals as well as first-instance proceedings) UPC roundup of two weeks ago (September 14, 2024 ip fray article). a special roundup covered several appellate decisions (September 25, 2024 ip fray article). This article discusses one appellate ruling (the first affirmance of a preliminary injunction (PI)) that has come…
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UPC Court of Appeal roundup: FRAND disclosures, language of proceedings, parallel national validity proceedings, early-stage objections
Context: This is a roundup of decisions handed down by the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Court of Appeal (CoA), and reported by ip fray on LinkedIn, since the prior UPC roundup (September 14, 2024 ip fray article). Note that during that period, ip fray discussed one CoA decision, which dealt with security, in a separate…
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Nokia scores another “Chinese first”: payment terminal maker PAX takes wireless patent license
Nokia’s IP business is on a roll. After Thursday’s standard-essential patent injunction against Amazon, the Finnish company today announced its first license deal with a Chinese maker of payment terminals.
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UK appeals court not amused: Panasonic risks appellate loss to Xiaomi or antisuit injunction plus sanctions in case of AASI
By first agreeing to have FRAND rates set by the English courts and subsequently preferring to seek leverage from UPC and German SEP injunctions, Panasonic may have outmaneuvered itself.
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BREAKING: Nokia wins Germany-wide standard-essential patent injunction against Amazon video streaming devices like Fire TV Stick
The Munich I Regional court deems EP2375749 standard-essential and rejected Amazon’s FRAND defense, granting Nokia a Germany-wide injunction against devices that decode video streams, such as the Fire TV Stick.
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Lenovo risks U.S. import ban over 4 SEPs as ITC staff sides with Ericsson on FRAND, reveals Lenovo’s exorbitant royalty demands
A filing by the Office of Unfair Import Investigations, commonly referred to as the ICT Staff, in Ericsson v. Lenovo contains interesting revelations concerning the parties’ FRAND licensing offers and related arguments.
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UPC’s Court of Appeal reverses Munich LD, orders U.S.-based non-practicing entity to provide collateral to Volkswagen
The UPC’s Munich Local Division held that a U.S. non-practicing entity did not have to provide security for litigation expenses, but the Court of Appeal has reversed the decision.
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Mission letters, parliamentary speech suggest new EU Commission may withdraw or overhaul SEP Regulation proposal
The mission letters to two new Executive Vice Presidents of the European Commission as well as the plenary speech on the SEP Regulation that one of them delivered in February this year suggest there is a realistic chance of the EU SEP Regulation being withdrawn and/or overhauled.