Month: April 2025
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MediaTek bets on UK judicial overreach with early 2026 FRAND trial in Huawei dispute, gets slapped with Brazilian injunctions
Context: The standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing dispute between Huawei and MediaTek is getting more attention now, in no small part due to Huawei having recently filed two Unified Patent Court (UPC) complaints (April 11, 2025 ip fray article). Previously, MediaTek case against Huawei in the UK, with a throw-in-the-kitchen-sink range of claims from antitrust to…
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Meet Orange’s IP leaders Lyse Brillouet and Harold Barrault
Being appointed Orange’s Executive VP of Research was a “concrete demonstration” of how seriously the board takes the IP department, Lyse Brillouet told ip fray on the sidelines of Via LA’s Summit in Shanghai.
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Philips and Vivo settle five-year Indian 3G, 4G SEP dispute
The companies’ patent licensing agreement comes over a year after Oppo settled with Philips in a parallel dispute – diverging from a pattern of settlements involving both parties occurring in short succession of each other.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): product-by-process claims, laches, BSH applied ever more often, belated addition of prior art reference, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our April 7, 2025 UPC Roundup. Besides various procedural matters, some substantive questions such as product-by-process claims and laches were addressed as well. 1. CoA affirms denial of preliminary objection, allows addition of defendant and two countries, among them…
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BREAKING: Nokia ramps up enforcement campaign against Acer, ASUS and Hisense—files ITC complaint
The Finnish SEP giant’s complaint comes less than a week after it also filed suits against the consumer electronics makers in three separate U.S. district courts.
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BREAKING: The EU has apparently LOST the WTO proceedings against China over its SEP case law
Context: Earlier this year, the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Trade (DG TRADE) brought a second World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against China over its standard-essential patent (SEP) case law (January 20, 2025 ip fray article). The first one started with a so-called request for consultations in February 2022 (PDF). What’s new: There are pretty…
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HDMI Licensing Administrator CEO Rob Tobias on Chinese expansion, importance of industry association collaboration
Collaborating with the China Video Industry Association during antitrust investigations and beyond was “critical” for growing business in China, Mr. Tobias told ip fray on the sidelines of Via Licensing Alliance’s Business Summit in Shanghai last month.
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InterDigital strikes patent licensing agreement with HP, Eeva Hakoranta steps down as Chief Licensing Officer
VP of Licensing and Head of the company’s Smartphone Licensing Program Julia Mattis is now Interim Chief Licensing Officer, as the company commences searching for a full-time replacement.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): another significant injunction, adoption of problem-solution approach in Munich, high-profile settlements, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our March 29, 2025 UPC Roundup. This week has brought various interesting decisions especially by the Mannheim and Munich Local Divisions (LDs) as well as three high-profile settlements and a bunch of new cases. 1. Fujifilm v. Kodak…