Month: August 2025
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Mixed UPC ruling shows upside and downside of purpose statements, limits of patent exhaustion, susceptibility of claim sets
A highly instructive, well-structured 80-page decision by the Munich LD’s second panel sheds light on several interesting questions of patent law.
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BREAKING: Nokia sues Paramount over video streaming patents in U.S. and Brazil, uses winning patents from Amazon ITC dispute
Nokia is serious about collecting video codec patent royalties from streamers. Its new enforcement action against Paramount is the latest example.
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Oura emerges victorious in ITC smart ring patent feud: Ultrahuman, RingConn face U.S. import bans
The United States International Trade Commission has found that Ultrahuman and RingConn infringed one of Oura’s smartring-related patents, issuing a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders.
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U.S. multijurisdiction panel consolidates four SAP trading software patent infringement disputes against Toronto Stock Exchange, Trayport in District of Delaware
The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered four SAP patent infringement cases filed against TSX Alpha, TSX Inc., and Trayport in three separate courts to be centralized in the District of Delaware.
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UPC CoA judge clarifies standard for preliminary references to ECJ: UPCA, RoP are not EU laws; EU Charter not sufficient for reference
The UPC has to apply EU law, but the UPC Agreement and the UPC’s Rules of Procedure are not part of the Union acquis.
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Podcast: interview with Dr. Bowman Heiden on role of SEPs in economics, policy intervention, cultivating a transatlantic IP career
Dr. Bowman Heiden is the Executive Director of the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Gothenburg, and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. …
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Dyson wins UPC’s first Spanish injunction: first BSH-based preliminary injunction, first BSH injunction based on anchor defendant
The UPC’s Hamburg LD has granted the UPC’s first-ever Spanish injunction, and the Hague LD affirmed, by panel decision, an order in a different case involving non-UPC countries.
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Federal judge finds Lindis patents unenforceable in leukemia drug dispute, Amgen dodges $50 million payment
The District of Delaware has found two patents asserted in a dispute between Lindis and Amgen over the latter’s leukaemia drug Blincyto “unenforceable due to inequitable conduct”, rendering a prior $50 million jury verdict against Amgen irrelevant.
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ETRI files HEVC SEP lawsuit against Hisense with UPC shortly after suing Transsion over same patent
Korea’s ETRI is now enforcing the same HEVC patent against two different Chinese defendants: smartphone maker Transsion as well as TV maker Hisense.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA clarifies two key prerequisites to suspension of enforcement; deposit may be used to offset costs; new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 10, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. CoA 1.1 CoA overturns denial of PI based on different take on imminent infringement (Boehringer Ingelheim v. Zentiva) (link to detailed article) The CoA has overturned a Lisbon LD decision that…