Month: October 2025
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BREAKING: MediaTek settles with Huawei after customs seizure of chips; Brazil is the new ITC; and Huawei is now a VVC Advance licensee
Huawei and MediaTek have reached a settlement according to a court document. One of the effects it that Huawei is now a VVC Advance licensee.
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BREAKING: Microsoft takes Via LA HEVC patent pool license
Microsoft has joined Via LA’s HEVC (H.265) patent pool as a licensee, bringing an end to standard-essential patent litigation initiated by licensors M&K, Gensquare LLC, and Tagivan II in Germany, the pool administrator announced today.
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Xiaomi’s IP strategy head Na Wei warns 2025 smartphone market is ‘flat’
During a recent speech, Xiaomi’s general manager of corporate business development and IP strategy Na Wei discussed the company’s IP trajectory so far, the way she believes IP licensing should act as an invisible hand to support the sustainability of the IP system. She also attributes what is now a “flat” smartphone market to the…
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Yangtze Memory turns up heat on Micron with UK patent suit following anti-astroturfing complaint, motion to unstay U.S. case
The dispute between Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. and Micron is escalating.
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Trump DOJ files statement of interest effectively in support of InterDigital against Disney’s SEP-related antitrust accusations
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in the name of the United States of America in a Delaware case brought by Disney against InterDigital.
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Huawei, Qualcomm, LG Electronics lead cellular IoT patent race: new LexisNexis report
A report published today has revealed that Huawei and Qualcomm lead in NB-IoT and LTE-M patents, while LG Electronics and Huawei are the frontrunners for Cat 1 and V2X.
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SAP adds four-patent Delaware lawsuit to dispute with Celonis that started in UPC’s Dusseldorf LD, seeking damages and injunction
Counsel The complaint was filed by Duane Morris’s Monté T. Squire.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): added-matter invalidation; consolidation request scrutinized; landmark anti-interim-license injunctions
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 28, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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Squires on fire: revived patent post-PTAB, declared expert unreliable, took procedural route that may have closed door to appeal
Based on an expert’s lack of credibility in his eyes, Director Squires not only terminated the PTAB proceedings without a remand but also made it difficult (or impossible) to appeal,