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Access Advance, Via LA position multimedia patent pools for further growth with price stability offer, regionalization for more standards
Read more: Access Advance, Via LA position multimedia patent pools for further growth with price stability offer, regionalization for more standardsVia LA extends the concept of regional rates to HEVC/VVC. Access Advance invites implementers with an offer to secure license fees until 2030 and multi-codec incentive.
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Multi-faceted CD Milan decision: revocation claim failed by default; injunction and interim damages award; some costs deemed excessive
Read more: Multi-faceted CD Milan decision: revocation claim failed by default; injunction and interim damages award; some costs deemed excessiveAfter the Court of Appeal reversed the Central Division’s denial of a preliminary injunction, the enjoined party (EOflow) failed to give security in the main proceedings and has now lost on that basis.
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Nokia sues Chinese automaker Geely in UPC, Germany over 5G SEPs
Read more: Nokia sues Chinese automaker Geely in UPC, Germany over 5G SEPsNokia has signed amicable bilateral deals with two Chinese automakers to date, but Geely’s rejection of FRAND patent licensing agreement offers has left the company “no choice” but to pursue legal action, Nokia said in a statement today.
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Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance context
Read more: Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance contextRoku is facing patent infringement lawsuits by Access Advance licensors and tried to attack the pool administrator with a U.S. antitrust case, which has now been thrown out.
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IP people often “hide in their corner”: Atos IP head on the importance of visibility in boosting C-suite support, budgets
Read more: IP people often “hide in their corner”: Atos IP head on the importance of visibility in boosting C-suite support, budgetsIn this interview, Yann Dietrich discusses how much Atos’s perception of IP has changed since he first joined, how IP is not a “legal” question but a “business model” question, and the increasing importance of trade secrets.
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Fraunhofer suing HMD in Unified Patent Court over standard-essential audio coding patents
Read more: Fraunhofer suing HMD in Unified Patent Court over standard-essential audio coding patentsYet another SEP holder is suing HMD: now it’s Fraunhofer’s turn. Two cases were lodged with the UPC’s Hamburg LD.
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BREAKING: SAP files its first offensive European patent infringement complaint in history, sues rival Celonis at UPC Dusseldorf
Read more: BREAKING: SAP files its first offensive European patent infringement complaint in history, sues rival Celonis at UPC DusseldorfFor the first time in its history of over half a century, SAP is asserting a European patent against a competitor, and it’s doing so in the UPC.
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Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and Germany
Read more: Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and GermanyPACCAR, a truck maker with a market capitalization at a level with Ford and GM, lacks cellular standard-essential patent licenses. It has been sued in Munich and Marshall, TX.



