Month: December 2025
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Judge Albright extends BMW’s antisuit TRO against Munich lawsuit over U.S. patents to prevent AASI, schedules motion hearing for January 13
After the hearing, a preliminary injunction will issue or the temporary restraining order will be lifted. Either way, the decision can then be appealed.
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Make SEPs Great Again: after President’s memo on 6G, USPTO forms SEP Working Group “to renew American leadership in technology standards”
With President Trump’s 6G memo before and the USPTO’s SEP Working Group announcement after Christmas, standards and the related patents get unprecedented political attention.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): cost appeal denied, Amazon on notice, numerous new cases, some withdrawals
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our December 21, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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No parking ticket: UPC Mannheim’s threat of €50M contempt fine against Amazon in line with CJEU case law, EU Commission guidelines and practice, UPC CoA guidance
Context: What’s new: We have conducted further research, the detailed results of which are reserved for our premium members (judges are entitled to free access). The starting point is a from the UPC Court of Appeal (CoA) decision in Fujifilm v. Kodak (October 18, 2025 ip fray article), which elaborates on Art. 354(3) of the UPC’S Rules of Procedure…
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UPC threatens Amazon with initial €50M ($59M) fine, “severe consequences”, declares all UK interim licenses unenforceable, suggests EU WTO action against UK
The UPC’s Mannheim LD issued a bombshell order just before Christmas, followed by a Christmas Eve notification to the European Commission that could lead to a WTO complaint.
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Opposition brief filed: could copyright-related case law persuade Judge Albright to lift BMW’s antisuit injunction against Munich lawsuit over U.S. patents?
Onesta has raised various arguments against BMW’s antisuit motion, some of which are potentially more compelling than others.
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ip fray’s second anniversary: staying on top of SEP and UPC cases while broadening the focus and innovating how legal excellence is recognized
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Hisense threatened legal action against ip fray over timing of conclusion of Access Advance license agreement
We are always happy to make corrections or additions to articles if they are factually warranted. We do that for our readers, and we want to treat everyone fairly. Threats are counterproductive.
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UPC appoints five new legally qualified judges, each to a different division: van Peursem, first Lithuanian, second Austrian, two more Germans
The UPC’s five new legally qualified judges will join in early March. Dutch judge van Peursem is the most famous one of them in patent law circles.
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Aggressive enforcers NovaCloud and Nagravision (OpenTV) expand campaigns to UPC with new lawsuits against Amazon, Pinterest
NovaCloud Licensing is suing large technology companies such as Microsoft and Meta over former Ericsson patents. Nagravision and OpenTV are affiliates and have sued numerous companies, among them Apple.and Netflix.