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UPC, German and other courts should thwart UK ‘interim license’ imperialism with ex parte preliminary injunctions over any affected patents
Read more: UPC, German and other courts should thwart UK ‘interim license’ imperialism with ex parte preliminary injunctions over any affected patentsContext: The England & Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA) appears to have zero regard for other jurisdictions when it wants the UK to become the world’s sole arbiter for FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) licensing terms by ordering standard-essential patent (SEP) holders to grant interim licenses (even potentially including non-SEPs) in an effort to prevent…
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InterDigital sues Disney (including its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries) in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over multimedia patents
Read more: InterDigital sues Disney (including its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries) in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over multimedia patentsInterDigital. one of the leading standard-essential patent holders, is enforcing its rights against Disney and its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries in the latest streaming patent litigation campaign.
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The EU has much to learn from Sweden and Finland about innovation — but their model is not scalable EU-wide and no answer to U.S. superdominance
Read more: The EU has much to learn from Sweden and Finland about innovation — but their model is not scalable EU-wide and no answer to U.S. superdominanceContext: A leaked European Commission (EC) document takes pro-IP positions and acknowledges, to some extent, the economic challenges that the bloc is facing (January 28, 2025 ip fray article), but stops short of saying that whatever the EU may do now is going to be too little, too late to stop Europe’s decline. This article…
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Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regions
Read more: Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regionsContext: Just a week ago, we raised concerns over Lord Justice Richard Arnold’s decision to expedite Lenovo’s appeal of the denial of an interim license from Ericsson and warned that an exceedingly expansive application of that instrument could provoke a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by the European Union (January 26, 2025 ip fray article)….
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UPC Roundup (1 week): bad week for plaintiffs, including EPO revoking patent-in-suit in accelerated proceedings
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): bad week for plaintiffs, including EPO revoking patent-in-suit in accelerated proceedingsThis is another relatively short roundup, summarizing developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since our January 26, 2025 UPC Roundup. It covers the worst week for UPC plaintiffs in a long time, with no win but multiple losses, though one of those losses involved a holding on long-arm jurisdiction that many practitioners…
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Nokia may win even two U.S. import bans against Amazon: preliminary ITC ruling
Read more: Nokia may win even two U.S. import bans against Amazon: preliminary ITC rulingNokia has prevailed over Amazon on another U.S. patent that could give rise to an import ban.
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Nokia signed patent license agreement with Chinese mobile device maker Transsion (African market leader) — without litigation
Read more: Nokia signed patent license agreement with Chinese mobile device maker Transsion (African market leader) — without litigationContext: It’s been almost a year since Nokia completed its smartphone patent license renewal cycle with respect to the seven largest licensees of cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs) (February 8, 2024 ip fray article). One company that was not previously named as a Nokia licensee is Transsion, a Chinese multi-brand company that is the undisputed volume…
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BREAKING: UPC’s Dusseldorf LD assumes long-arm jurisdiction over UK part of EPO-granted patent
Read more: BREAKING: UPC’s Dusseldorf LD assumes long-arm jurisdiction over UK part of EPO-granted patentThe UPC’s Dusseldorf Local Division deemed the patent-in-suit invalid, but would otherwise have ordered an injunction even with respect to its UK part.
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