Month: June 2025
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Podcast: interview with ETSI director-general Jan Ellsberger on focus beyond telecoms, including AI, quantum
The European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent not-for-profit body dedicated to ICT standardization that addresses market needs expressed by more than 900 ETSI members located in well over 60 countries around the world, while at the same time developing standards in support of the EU legislation. On the occasion of the recording of…
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“Game changer” Pantech-Google FRAND ruling could open up Japan’s SEP enforcement landscape
Pantech’s victory in an SEP dispute against Google in the Tokyo District Court shows Japan is shifting its judicial approach to FRAND and injunctive relief.
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No UPC Roundup this weekend, but here’s an update on premium membership and law firm profiles; paywalled content starts in July
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) had an internal event earlier in the week, which is why there were by far not enough decisions for a meaningful roundup. Presumably there will be a lot of orders in the days ahead. Our next UPC Roundup will cover a fortnight. If you look at the menu at the…
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USPTO issues more discretionary denials: Intel, Google, Nokia, Ericsson among losing petitioners
The significant inter partes review denials come less than a month after a Unified Patents report found the number of such decisions is three times higher than those under Director Andrei Iancu in 2020.
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Samsung fails to end ZTE patent dispute with UK interim license: all cases carry on regardless of judicial imperialism
Context: On Wednesday, the High Court of Justice for England & Wales (EWHC) demonstrated that when it comes to standard-essential patent (SEP) disputes, the UK judiciary considers all jurisdictions equal — but itself more equal. Therefore, Samsung obtained a declaration of an entitlement to an interim license to ZTE’s SEPs, despite ZTE having offered one,…
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UK faces “end of litigation funding” if Parliament does not pass Litigation Funding Agreements bill soon, funder warns
Susan Dunn, Chair of the Association of Litigation Funders and Kenny Henderson of CMS debated over whether Litigation Funding Agreements should be regulated, and the prejudice funding receives in the UK judiciary system, at the most recent LF Dealmakers Europe in London earlier this week.
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Nokia sues ASUS in India in addition to cases pending in U.S., UPC, Germany and Brazil: previously did so against Acer, Hisense
Nokia has recently stepped up its patent enforcement campaigns against Acer and Hisense with Indian lawsuits. Now it has done so against ASUS, too.
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Nokia’s chief litigation counsel and FSA director clash over Big Tech involvement in proposed EU SEP Regulation lobbying activities
The Fair Standards Alliance’s director Robert Pocknell has claimed Apple was not involved in the founding of his organization, which was set up in the interest of SMEs – and that SEP regulation discussions started at the European Commission way before it was founded.
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“Brain drain” in German district courts makes UPC the new “standard” in global patent enforcement campaigns, says local patent attorney
Jako Eleveld of Philips and Bernhard Thum of Thum & Partner have agreed with Bardehle Pagenberg’s Tobias Wuttke that the UPC has become the “default setting” for EU patent litigation, which he noted at the 2nd Annual IP Dealmakers Europe in London yesterday.
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EWHC holds Samsung entitled to interim license from ZTE: UK courts deem themselves more equal than other jurisdictions
As expected, the High Court of Justice for England & Wales has held that Samsung is entitled to an interim license from ZTE, but the decision raises serious issues.