Month: October 2026
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Disney disables HEVC on Disney+ in Brazil following Huawei injunction, appeals order
Disney has asked a Rio de Janeiro appeals court to suspend Huawei’s HEVC injunction, asserting that it has fully switched HEVC off on Disney+ in Brazil, and maintaining that it has not infringed its patents.
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Skechers fends off most infringement claims but can’t escape UPC Munich injunction over one of four accused shoe models
A mixed ruling leaves Skechers with three successful non-infringement defenses, while Kizik’s patent-holding affiliate secures an injunction and a damages liability finding.
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UPC grants Yangtze Memory application to intervene in Micron patent suit targeting downstream partners
Yangtze Memory has successfully filed an application to intervene in a UPC dispute (which also has parallel cases in Munich) targeting three of its downstream product partners, Ultron, Lexar and Apacer Technology, over alleged patent infringement.
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Taction seeks supplemental damages, interest, ongoing royalties through 2035 on top of $5.7B Apple verdict
Taction has asked Judge Robinson for damages on recent sales, interest back to April 2021, and royalties on future iPhone and Apple Watch sales through 2035, on top of the verdict.
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UPC Düsseldorf rejects two infringement suits, clarifies procedural and equivalence standards
Two UPC Düsseldorf rulings dismissing infringement claims brought by German coffee system supplier CUP&CINO against Austrian coffee machine manufacturer ALPINA clarify procedural requirements for auxiliary requests and reinforce growing judicial alignment on the Hague Local Division’s equivalence test.
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Munich’s economic approach to FRAND faces questions over practical application
Munich’s new FRAND Guidelines prompted questions about the reliability of economic benchmarks and their practical application, as industry representatives and litigators examined their implications for SEP disputes during an OxFirst webinar.
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UPC Mannheim LD encourages Samsung to take license from ZTE as injunction looms large: tipping point may be reached shortly
Samsung faces an uphill battle at next month’s UPC Mannheim hearing against ZTE, which is on the winning track with respect to the technical merits as well as FRAND.
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Ericsson hits Disney with UPC complaints over video compression technology
This follows reports last week of the Swedish company’s suits targeting Disney in Brazil.
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University of Washington DNA sequencing patent at center of $245M damages award survives second PTAB run
Guardant Health petitioned for IPR of the patent in response to a district court infringement complaint brought by the university and TwinStrand Biosciences.
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Brazil surpasses 100 ICT patent case filings
In an interview with Otto Licks, founding partner of Licks Attorneys, ip fray discusses how Brazil went from having zero patent enforcement cases to becoming one of the go-to jurisdictions for standard-essential ICT patent assertion.