Month: April 2026
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60% of global economy shares UPC Mannheim LD’s concerns over judicial overreach; UK accounts for 3%, but wants to dictate FRAND to everyone
The UK judiciary is increasingly isolated on the global map of patent litigation. Instead of finding its place as a reasonable jurisdiction that renders opinions of persuasive value, it is digging itself an ever deeper hole.
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SharkNinja fails to secure UPC injunction as Paris LD finds patent likely invalid due to implicit disclosure in prior art
The UPC denied SharkNinja’s injunction request, finding that all features of the patent were disclosed in a prior art document, even if not all of them explicitly.
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Wilus targets TP-Link over Wi-Fi SEPs, Dolby sues Barco in projector dispute in Eastern District of Texas complaints
Wilus continues its Wi-Fi enforcement drive; while Dolby takes action outside the SEP arena.
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HMD elects not to appeal Brazilian preliminary injunction in NEC audio standard case
The Rio state court’s final judgment in the case is expected next month.
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To survive today’s economic climate, it is ‘essential’ for implementers to shape standards too: Turkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel’s IP head
“Simply remaining a manufacturer is no longer a sustainable strategy in this competitive business,” Vestel’s IP head Kemal Aygor recently told ip fray.
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BREAKING: China issues regulations countering foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction
The global ZTE v. Samsung FRAND rate-setting decision is potentially a targeted scenario.
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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.