Month: April 2026
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K.Mizra sues Google in Western District of Texas after Google drops Northern California DJ action
By leaving its notoriously patent-hostile home forum, Google allowed the case to be brought in a more favorable venue for the patent holder.
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UPC docket distribution is ‘harmful’ and ‘undermining’ or a ‘non-concern’? European patent attorneys strongly divided
A letter by the European Patent Lawyers Association reveals that most non-German European patent attorneys believe that the current state of the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC’s) case distribution (currently very German-heavy) is a huge concern and implore the UPC to change its system. Germans, on the other hand, are strongly against intervention.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): special status of FRAND pleadings recognized; revocation decisions; various procedural clarifications; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the calendar week of April 6, 2026.
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Milan LD’s handling of Ericsson-ASUS cases does nothing to encourage patentees to file in non-German UPC venues
If high-stakes cases in rapidly-evolving industries take more than 27 months from docketing to hearing, it will be hard for a less popular UPC division to compete with the top four or five venues.
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Optis asks Judge Gilstrap for re-re-retrial against Apple — preferably with JMOL on infringement — after recent adverse verdict
Optis is trying a new tack as its looks to revive its damages claim against Apple.
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UPC’s CD Milan revokes Flexicare nasal cannula patent, says one novelty-destroying prior art mapping is enough
The UPC’s CD Milan revoked Flexicare’s unitary patent on a nasal cannula. The court said that if one reasonable way of mapping prior art onto a patent claim shows the invention is not new, the patent must be revoked.
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Malikie, Key Patent Innovations launch wave of multi-patent infringement suits targeting seven companies in U.S., including Hisense, NTT
Non-practising entity Key Patent Innovations and its subsidiaries Malikie Innovations and Valtrus have launched a patent infringement campaign asserting multimedia and datacenter-related patents against seven different companies, including Hisense and NTT Global Data, in the Eastern District of Texas and Northern District of Illinois.
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Licensor’s breach of patent license agreement: Delaware Supreme Court enhances LG’s win over Intellectual Ventures
A Delaware ruling shows how suing a licensee’s customers can create upstream liability through indemnification—and how licensing structures may limit exposure through liability caps.
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Let’s not allow AI slop to pollute the SEP ecosystem with plausible-sounding fake reasoning aka hallucination — let’s make responsible use of AI
An “analysis” generated by an engine with a 46% hallucination rate had various members of the SEP ecosystem in awe until we flagged one of the issues. It was a biggie, but not the biggest one.
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ip fray’s content team is now complete: patent-specialized journalists and lawyers with a passion for writing
In response to last month’s “job ad” article, we received great reactions. We now have a strong interdisciplinary team, which (for no ideological reason) happens to be quite diverse.