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Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. Lava
Read more: Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. LavaThe Delhi High Court has handed down its ruling in a long-running standard-essential patent dispute between Ericsson and Lava, exposing an extreme case of hold-out behavior.
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Litigation finance: ip fray’s founder helping U.S. litigation boutique raise funds for portfolio of (mostly IP) cases
Read more: Litigation finance: ip fray’s founder helping U.S. litigation boutique raise funds for portfolio of (mostly IP) casesBy Florian Mueller, the founder of ip fray It’s been a little over three months since I launched three new websites (ai fray, games fray, ip fray). Articles and social media posts by all three outlets have been picked up by Techmeme, the leading information and communications technology news aggregator. Key decision makers (from public…
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Next attack on EU patent injunctions: IP2Innovate officially pushes for stronger proportionality requirement
Read more: Next attack on EU patent injunctions: IP2Innovate officially pushes for stronger proportionality requirementA Brussels-based lobbying group of net licensees, IP2Innovate, has made a public call on the EU institutions to restrict access to patent injunctions by means of a strengthened proportionality test.
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European Commission asks Munich appeals court to reverse lower court in standard-essential patent case
Read more: European Commission asks Munich appeals court to reverse lower court in standard-essential patent caseEXCLUSIVE: The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) has asked the Munich Higher Regional Court for permission to appear as an amicus curiae on the defendant’s behalf in a VoiceAge EVS v. HMD case. Different aspects of the EC’s initiative raise serious questions about the agency’s understanding of SEP issues.
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Qualcomm publishes cellular IoT SEP royalties based on module price but also available to device makers
Read more: Qualcomm publishes cellular IoT SEP royalties based on module price but also available to device makersQualcomm has licensed module makers for more than a decade and is now also offering a direct license to device makers whose module suppliers do not have a license.
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First patent infringement lawsuit over Apple Vision Pro assigned to Texas judge feared by Apple and many others
Read more: First patent infringement lawsuit over Apple Vision Pro assigned to Texas judge feared by Apple and many othersA few days ago, what is likely the first patent infringement complaint targeting (among others) the Apple new Vision Pro device was filed in the Western District of Texas and assigned to Judge Alan D. Albright.
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Redacted judgment shows Huawei overcomplied with its FRAND licensing obligation in (settled) Amazon dispute
Read more: Redacted judgment shows Huawei overcomplied with its FRAND licensing obligation in (settled) Amazon disputeContext: In December it became known that the Munich I Regional Court entered a WiFi 6 standard-essential patent (SEP) injunction against Amazon at the end of a trial (December 26, 2023 ip fray article). The written decision was provided in February, and the dispute was settled, through a global patent license agreement, shortly thereafter (March…
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EU Commission rediscovers “importance of standard essential patents” as “major area of intellectual property protection”
Read more: EU Commission rediscovers “importance of standard essential patents” as “major area of intellectual property protection”At a recent WTO hearing relating to the European Commission’s trade complaint over Chinese antisuit injunctions, the EC took positions on standard-essential patents that noticeably diverge from its arguments for the proposed SEP Regulation.
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