Month: October 2026
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Disney hit with Delaware complaint from ETRI over video coding SEPs
ETRI claims that Disney was repeatedly contacted by Access Advance to take a (F)RAND license to the VDP pool, which would cover the asserted patents.
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OPPO, Nidec have taken Qi Wireless Power patent pool license, Via announces during AI licensing-focused Summit
During its annual Bridge Summit in San Francisco today, which will largely focus on opportunities and strategies in AI patent licensing, Via Licensing Alliance announced Japan’s Nidec Mobility Corporation and China’s OPPO – already a licensor – have both taken a license in Via’s Qi Wireless Power patent pool.
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Halozyme wins Dutch injunction against Merck’s Keytruda SC in eight European countries, court holds patent valid
The Hague District Court has upheld Halozyme’s patent and found infringement. Merck’s subcutaneous cancer drug is blocked in eight European countries, but Merck strongly disagrees, alleging the patent is invalid.
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BlackBerry acquires Google patents, reports “stronger than expected” licensing revenue
BlackBerry also reported that it received patents as part of a customer contract, though it isn’t clear if that customer could’ve been Google.
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ZTE assigns over a hundred more patents to U.S. PAE as Verizon files counterclaim in mobile networking suit
Earlier this year, PAE Eight Deer Ventures asserted patents previously owned by ZTE against Verizon and AT&T in U.S. district court.
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Qualcomm-Huawei disagreement reflects inherently subjective nature of unpacking complex “license-plus” deals
Qualcomm’s and Huawei’s divergent interpretations of their license-plus-patent-transfer agreement are just the latest example of how two parties can take different perspectives on the same deal without anyone necessarily lying.
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PMAC is the UPC’s ‘multi-door’ dispute resolution partner, Director Aleš Zalar says
In an exclusive interview, PMAC Director Aleš Zalar tells ip fray about the center’s first cases, its expanding FRAND work, coordination with the UPC and national courts, and plans to make arbitration faster and more cost-effective.
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BASF spin-off also suing Apple over face ID patent infringement in UPC, ITC
The United States International Trade Commission has instituted an investigation into BASF subsidiary TrinamiX’s infringement complaint against Apple over six of its facial recognition-related patents, a month after the plaintiff also sued Apple in both the UPC and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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OpenAI, Adobe, others are on winning track against world’s first serious patent infringement lawsuit over ChatGPT: patent likely invalid
OpenAI and its codefendants, notably including Adobe, appear very likely to fend off the world’s first serious patent infringement lawsuit over ChatGPT.
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Google succeeds in getting Federal Circuit to move online maps case out of Western District of Texas
Now-retired District Judge Alan D. Albright was “patently erroneous” in denying Google’s motion to transfer the University of Southern California’s complaint.