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Nokia’s Vice President, IP Policy and Advocacy Head: “global policymakers recognize the importance of standards and that strong protection and enforcement of IPRs drives innovation”
Read more: Nokia’s Vice President, IP Policy and Advocacy Head: “global policymakers recognize the importance of standards and that strong protection and enforcement of IPRs drives innovation”“Open standards and FRAND licensing are the invisible infrastructure on which the digital economy is built,” Nokia’s Vice President and Head of IP Policy & Advocacy, Collette Rawnsley, told ip fray in an exclusive interview. “Without open standards and standard essential patents, there would be no smartphones, no connected devices, no video streaming.”
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UPC CoA has good news for plaintiffs: infringement is decided without remand after reversing revocation; and lays out criteria for publication remedy
Read more: UPC CoA has good news for plaintiffs: infringement is decided without remand after reversing revocation; and lays out criteria for publication remedyUPC plaintiffs whose case is thrown out in the first instance over validity issues will normally get a decision on infringement by the CoA without a need for a remand.
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Federal Circuit’s incredible multiverse: dead patent claim gets fictionally resurrected to justify part of $40M+ damages award
Read more: Federal Circuit’s incredible multiverse: dead patent claim gets fictionally resurrected to justify part of $40M+ damages awardThis is the oddest Federal Circuit ruling in a long time. Most of it is anything but odd, but allowing a patentee to capture the value of invalidated claim elements is remarkable.
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Broadcom suing Deutsche Telekom in Unified Patent Court after settling with Telefónica, winning injunction against Renault
Read more: Broadcom suing Deutsche Telekom in Unified Patent Court after settling with Telefónica, winning injunction against RenaultBroadcom has just settled with Spanish (but internationally present) telecommunications carrier Telefónica, won a high-profile injunction against Renault, and is now going after Deutsche Telekom.
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Breakthrough for VVC as Google implements video standard in Android 17: pool and bilateral licenses to follow
Read more: Breakthrough for VVC as Google implements video standard in Android 17: pool and bilateral licenses to followGoogle has previously implemented codecs that are not subject to its preferred royalty-free pledge, but only at a stage where it would have been a clear mistake not to do so.
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InterDigital, Sony renew cellular, WiFi, video patent licensing agreement
Read more: InterDigital, Sony renew cellular, WiFi, video patent licensing agreementThe companies announced today that they have agreed to extend their ongoing patent licensing agreement, which covers all of Sony’s end-user devices under InterDigital’s global patent portfolio, including its standard-essential cellular, WiFi, and video patents.
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Acer, ASUS may NOT settle YET despite recent German SEP injunctions: new research and observations; HTC, HMD, OPPO, vivo examples
Read more: Acer, ASUS may NOT settle YET despite recent German SEP injunctions: new research and observations; HTC, HMD, OPPO, vivo examplesAfter last month’s injunctions, Acer and ASUS may still be holding out (which is meant non-judgmentally here). We received (a) surprising information from a court on Friday and (b) took note of an interesting but little-noticed statement.
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