Month: June 2026
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Mediation and Arbitration as Settlement Pathways in Chinese Patent Disputes
China has no UPC Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre equivalent. Its relevant pathways are more dispersed. This article maps those pathways and explains how they may matter in Chinese patent disputes.
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UPC grants InterDigital 11-country injunction against Disney’s streaming services: FRAND defense failed in unusual way; €8M (not €500M) security
As predicted by ip fray, InterDigital has won an 11-country HEVC injunction against Disney’s streaming services. Three German injunctions did not lead to a settlement, but this one might.
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OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum less than one week away (23, 24 June)
The 14th edition of this event will be held in the DPMA Forum, Munich next week. ip fray plans to cover the conference during and after it takes place.
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Infineon disputes Innoscience’s claim of “final Chinese GaN patent victory”
In a statement to ip fray, Infineon said China’s Supreme People’s Court decision concerned preliminary injunction relief and that the main proceedings remain ongoing.
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Malikie Innovations turns on Toyota in expansion of connected cars campaign asserting Wi-Fi SEPs
Malikie asserted some of the same former Blackberry patents against Honda and Hyundai in U.S. district courts last month.
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Via Licensing Alliance taps former TiVo, Technicolor executive to lead on licensing and strategy
Patrick Zhang has been appointed to the newly created role at a time when Via is looking to expand existing programs while launching into new areas.
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Amgen must pay $20.2 million in damages over antibody patent infringement: District of Delaware jury
Following a trial in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware last week, a jury has found that Amgen’s subsidiary Teneobio has infringed one of competitor Harbour Antibodies’s antibody-related patents and owes over $20 million in damages.
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PTAB invalidates final Centripetal patent tied to vacated $1.9 billion Cisco verdict
The PTAB on remand found several of the patent-at-issue’s claims obvious over a single prior art reference, ruling that even credible evidence of copying by Cisco couldn’t overcome a “strong case of obviousness” where the prior art was “essentially anticipatory”.
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WIPO report endorses complementary use of FRAND valuation methodologies
WIPO’s new report on FRAND valuation rejects a one-size-fits-all approach to SEP licensing disputes. Instead, it argues that comparable-license, bottom-up, and top-down methodologies should be viewed as complementary tools for assessing whether licensing terms are fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): drone maker defends in Mannheim; various procedural rulings in relatively uneventful week
This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of June 8, 2026.