Month: March 2026
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ASUS affiliate Innovative Sonic wins 5G SEP injunction against OPPO and OnePlus in Munich
Two weeks after OPPO prevailed for the first time on a 5G patent assertion against ASUS, the latter’s affiliate Innovative Sonic strikes back with a 5G injunction.
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New UPC appellate decision teaches two long-arm lessons: when waiver occurs and when affiliate entities are not anchor defendants
A juice extractor case has given rise to interesting clarifications. The UPC does not aspire to be a “world court” for patents, but to faithfully apply EU law.
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Munich court enjoins Deutsche Telekom’s high-speed fixed-line offering, lets Broadcom, Nokia, Huawei (but not Adtran) off the hook
In a differentiated reasoning, the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber explained in open court that only Deutsche Telekom’s use of Adtran products, but not that of Huawei and Nokia products, infringed the patent-in-suit.
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Nokia wins second pair of HEVC injunctions against Acer, ASUS in Munich I Regional Court
Nokia is already enforcing an HEVC injunction in Germany against Acer and ASUS. Now it has a second one in place, making it harder for the computer makers to resume their sales in the near term.
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BREAKING: Transsion escalates Ericsson patent litigation in UPC, files its first-ever public patent infringement complaint
Transsion has sued Ericsson in the Unified Patent Court’s Lisbon Local Division over the infringement of one of its patents, marking its first-ever publicly-known patent infringement complaint.
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Another semaglutide generic enters India as Novo Nordisk patent expires, no injunction issues
The Delhi High Court has issued a ruling allowing a generic version of semaglutide to be sold without an injunction and indicating a cautious approach to late-stage enforcement, favoring restricted entry over exclusion, by basing it around a contested claim limitation.
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ZTE makes standard-essential patent HISTORY as first-ever defendant to prevail on FRAND defense in Munich (against Samsung)
This is even more historic than ZTE’s appellate victory (also over Samsung) in the UK regarding an interim-license declaration.
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UPC Mannheim LD agrees with UK judge on Amazon’s declaration being “nonsense” but refrains from imposing sanctions at this point: comity
Amazon is not being fined for now. But it is not off the hook. Today’s order involves a clear contempt-of-court holding.
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Fractus, Verizon settle IoT patent infringement litigation in Eastern District of Texas
Fractus today announced it has settled its 14-month patent litigation with Verizon in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.