Month: September 2025
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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Federal Circuit reverses $166 million damages award: AT&T, Nokia emerge victorious in radio network patent infringement dispute
The Federal Circuit has reversed a district court’s ruling that had awarded Finesse Wireless LLC $166 million in damages, after finding no infringement of the asserted patents.
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BYD, IP Bridge settle 4G SEP dispute
Sources close to ip fray have confirmed that IP Bridge has withdrawn its 4G standard-essential patent dispute against the Chinese electric vehicle maker.
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayer’s rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): unitary effect denial upheld; evidence-gathering at IFA; 473-page PI pleading held excessive
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 14, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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American Express handed win in loyalty program patent infringement dispute
A U.S. district court has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Loyal-T Systems LLC against American Express for failing to state a claim for relief.
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Moderna, Alnylam settle U.S. COVID vaccine patent infringement dispute
Alnylam has settled its three-year dispute against Moderna in the District of Delaware, after a precedential Federal Circuit decision found the patentee had acted as its own lexicographer in defining a key patent specification term, foreclosing its infringement allegations.