Month: April 2025
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Federal Circuit hands win to Fox in machine learning patent infringement dispute
“Claims that do no more than apply established methods of machine learning to a new data environment” are not patent eligible, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in dismissing an appeal filed by plaintiff Recentive Analytics.
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ToolGen sues Vertex, Lonza, and RoslinCT over CRISPR patents
ToolGen’s suits come in response to patent oppositions filed by the defendants over its first-ever European CRISPR-Cas9 protein delivery method patent.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA rejects three out of three motions to stay enforcement, plus numerous first-instance pretrial decisions
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our April 12, 2025 UPC Roundup. This has been a relatively busy week at the UPC in terms of the number of decisions. 1. CoA denies three motions to stay enforcement of injunctions: high hurdle The UPC’s Court of…
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“Pressure points”: Latin America’s role in Amazon-Nokia, Ericsson-Lenovo settlements
Counsel to Nokia and Ericsson reveal why the SEP holders chose Brazil and Colombia for their enforcement campaigns and the role those jurisdictions played in reaching global settlements.
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Supercomputer firm ParTec seeks discretionary denial of Microsoft’s PTAB IPR petition under Acting USPTO Director’s new bifurcated framework
A dispute over the architecture of server clusters used for AI could give rise to one of the first high-profile discretionary denials under Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s new rules.
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Japanese solar panel manufacturers seek to dismiss JinkoSolar’s U.S. patent infringement lawsuit
Context: In December, JinkoSolar filed a patent infringement complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against several major renewable energy companies and solar panel manufacturers, including VSUN Solar USA Inc., Toyo Co. Ltd., and Abalance Corporation and its subsidiaries WWB Corporation and Fuji Solar Co., Ltd. (December 8, 2024…
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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…