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Nokia, Amazon settle patent dispute with license agreement: fourth video streaming deal for Nokia
Read more: Nokia, Amazon settle patent dispute with license agreement: fourth video streaming deal for NokiaContext: Last month, Nokia announced the third license agreement with an (unnamed) video streaming platform (LinkedIn post by Arvin Patel). But 15 months ago, its discussions with Amazon, whose Prime Video service is one of the leading streaming networks, had reached an impasse and Nokia brought patent infringement actions in the U.S., Germany, India, the…
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Top German court gets first FRAND/SEP case since Sisvel v. Haier: HMD has already appealed VoiceAge EVS ruling to Federal Court of Justice: onward to ECJ?
Read more: Top German court gets first FRAND/SEP case since Sisvel v. Haier: HMD has already appealed VoiceAge EVS ruling to Federal Court of Justice: onward to ECJ?The standard-essential patent dispute between VoiceAge EVS and HMD has reached Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, from where it will presumably be referred to the European Court of Justice.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA decisions on cost awards and case management; Mannheim LD allows contingent request for information
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA decisions on cost awards and case management; Mannheim LD allows contingent request for informationThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our March 22, 2025 UPC Roundup. No major decision came down this week, but some of the orders address issues that will resurface in other UPC cases. 1. Court of Appeal decisions 1.1 Jurisdiction over pre-UPC-era infringing acts to…
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‘Music to my ears’: Chinese IP market welcomes new national foreign-related IP dispute regulations
Read more: ‘Music to my ears’: Chinese IP market welcomes new national foreign-related IP dispute regulationsWhile Chinese patent attorneys have largely welcomed China’s new rules, which would allegedly give China a clearer legal basis to “push back” in foreign-related IP disputes, other voices have suggested the measures may be in response to concerns regarding the Trump Administration’s stance on IP – so China is “preparing for IP lawfare”.
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Ericsson’s Mathias Hellman in IoT & IP Explained interview: interoperability, scale top two considerations in deciding whether to standardize tech
Read more: Ericsson’s Mathias Hellman in IoT & IP Explained interview: interoperability, scale top two considerations in deciding whether to standardize tech“It can be painful to take something great you have developed and put it into a standardized context, but in the long run that is very incredibly important for the communications sector and our ecosystem,” Mr. Hellman tells Dr. Claudia Tapia Garcia.
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Consumer electronics maker Vestel joins Avanci Video patent pool as licensor
Read more: Consumer electronics maker Vestel joins Avanci Video patent pool as licensorTurkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel has joined the Avanci Video patent pool as a licensor.
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Judge throws out Samsung’s declaratory judgment action against Oura as no patent enforcement was specifically threatened; Samsung may try again
Read more: Judge throws out Samsung’s declaratory judgment action against Oura as no patent enforcement was specifically threatened; Samsung may try againContext: Last spring, Samsung launched a pre-emptive strike against notoriously litigous smart ring maker Oura (which likes to spell its name as ŌURA) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (May 31, 2024 ip fray article). Samsung wanted to shield the Galaxy Ring, which it was then preparing for launch…
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Discretionary denials of PTAB inter partes reviews come back with a vengeance: Fintiv review inserted before potential merits proceedings
Read more: Discretionary denials of PTAB inter partes reviews come back with a vengeance: Fintiv review inserted before potential merits proceedingsWithin four weeks of her decision to rescind former USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s memo narrowing the application of Fintiv, Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart has taken another bold step favoring patentees.
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