Month: February 2025
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Patently confirms Nokia’s milestone of 7K patent families declared essential to 5G standard
Beyond its 5G contributions, Nokia has also declared well over 1,700 patent families essential to earlier generations, further demonstrating its long-standing impact on mobile communications, Patently has found.
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Nokia wins first-ever Germany-wide patent injunction against Amazon Prime Video streaming service after three wins over Amazon devices
Context: Nokia has already won three patent rulings relating to Amazon streaming devices like the Fire TV Stick. A Germany-wide permanent injunction that the Munich I Regional Court ordered last year (September 20, 2024 ip fray article) has been enforced for a few months now. Shortly before the end of the year, Administrative Law Judge…
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New SEP lawsuits filed against Xiaomi over ASUSTeK patents in Munich: sources
Xiaomi is being sued over ASUSTeK patents in the Munich I Regional Court and possibly other venues, too.
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“Good leadership is like conducting an orchestra”: LESI president and TactoTek general counsel, IP licensing head Sonja London
“To make a symphony, people must be playing together, even if each team is playing their own melody – and the best outcome happens when everyone is contributing according to the notes,” Mrs. London told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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ITC staff recommends throwing out Lenovo complaint against Ericsson: no infringement, thus no U.S. import ban
Ericsson has won one of its ITC cases against Lenovo and may win another while the ITC staff recommends throwing out one of Lenovo’s two complaints.
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Erich Spangenberg’s soon-to-be-public SIM IP buys patent portfolio worth hundreds of millions in haptics and extended reality (XR)
Context: Two months ago we reported on legendary patent monetizer Erich Spangenberg being back in this business and intrigued by the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opportunity (December 4, 2024 ip fray article). What’s new: His new company, SIM IP, just announced on LinkedIn a definitive agreement to acquire Ultraleap’s haptics and extended reality (XR) patent…
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UPC, German and other courts should thwart UK ‘interim license’ imperialism with ex parte preliminary injunctions over any affected patents
Context: The England & Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA) appears to have zero regard for other jurisdictions when it wants the UK to become the world’s sole arbiter for FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing terms by ordering standard-essential patent (SEP) holders to grant interim licenses (even potentially including non-SEPs) in an effort to prevent…
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InterDigital sues Disney (including its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries) in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over multimedia patents
InterDigital. one of the leading standard-essential patent holders, is enforcing its rights against Disney and its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries in the latest streaming patent litigation campaign.
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The EU has much to learn from Sweden and Finland about innovation — but their model is not scalable EU-wide and no answer to U.S. superdominance
Context: A leaked European Commission (EC) document takes pro-IP positions and acknowledges, to some extent, the economic challenges that the bloc is facing (January 28, 2025 ip fray article), but stops short of saying that whatever the EU may do now is going to be too little, too late to stop Europe’s decline. This article…
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Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regions
Context: Just a week ago, we raised concerns over Lord Justice Richard Arnold’s decision to expedite Lenovo’s appeal of the denial of an interim license from Ericsson and warned that an exceedingly expansive application of that instrument could provoke a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by the European Union (January 26, 2025 ip fray article)….