Context: On Tuesday, InterDigital announced lawsuits against TCL and Hisense in the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Germany, Brazil, and India; and a U.S. lawsuit against TCL quickly became discoverable (February 10, 2026 ip fray article).
What’s new: Now an InterDigital v. Hisense U.S. patent infringement lawsuit filed on Tuesday has also become discoverable. See below.
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Brazil
Licks Attorneys (ip fray firm profile with numerous SEP achievements): Rodolfo Barreto, Bruno Falque, Amanda Terra, and Élcio de Lacerda.
India
Anand & Anand’s Pravin Anand and Vaishali Mittal.
Unified Patent Court & Germany
Like in InterDigital v. Transsion, but unlike in the Amazon and Disney disputes, Bardehle Pagenberg’s (ip fray firm profile with numerous achievements) Prof. Tilman Mueller-Stoy (“Müller-Stoy” in German) and Dr. Tilman Mueller (“Müller”). It is not a typo that they have overlapping names. The former is based in Munich (“Tilman South”) and the busiest UPC litigator as we speak; the latter is based in Hamburg (“Tilman North”). The South-North complement is how people sometimes refer to them to avoid confusion, comparable to the distinction in Germany between ALDI Süd (which runs the U.S. ALDI shops) and ALDI Nord (which owns Trader Joe’s). We are not aware of an official term for the rare occurrences on which they team up on the same case, but Tilman2 (chemical notation) might work.
Bardehle Pagenberg is collaborating with patent attorneys from df-mp (ip fray firm profile with numerous achievements).
United States
Alston & Bird’s M. Scott Stevens, Stephen R. Lareau, Philip C. Ducker, Michelle A. Clark, Philip Hawkyard, Andrew Ligotti, Lindsay C. Church. The complaint against Hisense additionally names Jason Spotts.
Only against TCL: the Dacus Firm’s Deron R. Dacus.