Month: December 2025
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Nokia signs bilateral wireless patent licensing agreement with automaker Stellantis, acquires WiFi 7 patents from Huawei
In a blog post today, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, announced that the company has signed a bilateral patent licensing agreement with Stellantis – its fourth major WLAN license deal with an automaker this year – and acquired several of Huawei’s WiFi 7-related patents.
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Swiss patent court offers expedited nullity proceedings for use in foreign jurisdictions, including UPC
The Federal Patent Court in Switzerland has announced that nullity declaration actions brought against patents that form the basis of infringement suits will be expedited.
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Some direct patent infringement “acceptable price” for expediting competition: U.S. Solicitor General urges Supreme Court to review skinny labeling and generic drug access
United States Solicitor General D. John Sauer has filed a petition urging the Supreme Court to intervene in a long-running drug patent infringement case in which he alleges the Federal Circuit failed to apply the “skinny labelling” (section viii) pathway, which allows the entry of generics that carve out patented uses but otherwise duplicate the…
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Sun Patent Trust’s UPC action may dissuade automaker Geely from peacemeal resolution; Bardehle becomes first law firm to be on both sides of Avanci
It is unclear why Geely is betting on licensing strategies that Volkswagen and Mercedes previously abandoned.
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Express Mobile hits major setbacks in patent enforcement campaign against Meta, Shopify, after recent $170M trial win over GoDaddy
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued rulings putting a dent in Express Mobile’s patent enforcement campaigns against Shopify and Meta less than a month after the non-practicing entity celebrated a $170 million win against GoDaddy.
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UPC’s Roche-Menarini preliminary injunction clarifies relationship between independent product and manufacturing method claims
An independent method claim cannot, without more, result in further requirements for the infringement of an independent product claim.
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10x Genomics, Moderna, Novo Nordisk among newly confirmed speakers for Patent Litigation Europe event (pharma & tech) next month
Eric Whitaker, Chief Legal Officer at 10x Genomics, Karen Guo, Senior Director of Patents & IP at Novo Nordisk, and Katherine Hinterberg, Senior Director of Patent Litigation at Moderna, will speak at Kisaco Research’s annual Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam.
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Optical fibre cable maker’s invalidation claims were “valiant” but “fell flat”, EWHC rules in Fujikura v. Sterlite patent infringement decision
The High Court of Justice for England & Wales has ruled that a patent asserted by Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer Fujikura is valid and has been infringed by a range of Indian rival Sterlite’s fiber optic cables.
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U.S. and Asian companies bring vast majority of major Unified Patent Court infringement cases, reflective of EU weakness in innovation
About one third of the last 100 UPC infringement actions were brought by companies headquartered in a contracting member state, but most of them are small.
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GUEST ARTICLE: Cellular SEP aggregate royalty rate for carrier network equipment
The following article was authored by Professor John Gong of the Department of Economics of the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing). Guest articles reflect the opinions of their authors, not those of ip fray. As smartphone manufacturers like Apple, Xiaomi and OPPO have accumulated more and more standard-essential patents (SEP), making into the…