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MediaTek bets on UK judicial overreach with early 2026 FRAND trial in Huawei dispute, gets slapped with Brazilian injunctions
Read more: MediaTek bets on UK judicial overreach with early 2026 FRAND trial in Huawei dispute, gets slapped with Brazilian injunctionsContext: The standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing dispute between Huawei and MediaTek is getting more attention now, in no small part due to Huawei having recently filed two Unified Patent Court (UPC) complaints (April 11, 2025 ip fray article). Previously, Ā MediaTek brought a case against Huawei in the UK, with a throw-in-the-kitchen-sink range of claims from…
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Meet Orangeās IP leaders Lyse Brillouet and Harold BarraultĀ
Read more: Meet Orangeās IP leaders Lyse Brillouet and Harold BarraultĀBeing appointed Orangeās Executive VP of Research was a āconcrete demonstrationā of how seriously the board takes the IP department, Lyse Brillouet told ip fray on the sidelines of Via LAās Summit in Shanghai.
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Philips and Vivo settle five-year Indian 3G, 4G SEP dispute
Read more: Philips and Vivo settle five-year Indian 3G, 4G SEP disputeThe companiesā patent licensing agreement comes over a year after Oppo settled with Philips in a parallel dispute ā diverging from a pattern of settlements involving both parties occurring in short succession of each other.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): product-by-process claims, laches, BSH applied ever more often, belated addition of prior art reference, and more
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): product-by-process claims, laches, BSH applied ever more often, belated addition of prior art reference, and moreThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our April 7, 2025 UPC Roundup. Besides various procedural matters, some substantive questions such as product-by-process claims and laches were addressed as well. 1. CoA affirms denial of preliminary objection, allows addition of defendant and two countries, among them…
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BREAKING: Nokia ramps up enforcement campaign against Acer, ASUS and Hisenseāfiles ITC complaint
Read more: BREAKING: Nokia ramps up enforcement campaign against Acer, ASUS and Hisenseāfiles ITC complaintThe Finnish SEP giantās complaint comes less than a week after it also filed suits against the consumer electronics makers in three separate U.S. district courts.
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BREAKING: The EU has apparently LOST the WTO proceedings against China over its SEP case law
Read more: BREAKING: The EU has apparently LOST the WTO proceedings against China over its SEP case lawContext: Earlier this year, the European Commission’s (EC) Directorate-General for Trade (DG TRADE) brought a second World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against China over its standard-essential patent (SEP) case law (January 20, 2025 ip fray article). The first one started with a so-called request for consultations in February 2022 (PDF). What’s new: There are pretty…
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HDMI Licensing Administrator CEO Rob Tobias on Chinese expansion, importance of industry association collaboration
Read more: HDMI Licensing Administrator CEO Rob Tobias on Chinese expansion, importance of industry association collaborationCollaborating with the China Video Industry Association during antitrust investigations and beyond was ācriticalā for growing business in China, Mr. Tobias told ip fray on the sidelines of Via Licensing Allianceās Business Summit in Shanghai last month.
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