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Munich I Regional Court orders one month of imprisonment over sustained refusal to provide information on past patent infringement: unprecedented order
Read more: Munich I Regional Court orders one month of imprisonment over sustained refusal to provide information on past patent infringement: unprecedented orderIn a litigation between two Japanese glass manufacturers one party was found to have disobeyed a key part of a patent infringement ruling that came down in April 2025.
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BMW seeks U.S. antisuit and anti-anti-antisuit injunction against NPE Onesta’s Munich lawsuit over two U.S. patents: Western District of Texas
Read more: BMW seeks U.S. antisuit and anti-anti-antisuit injunction against NPE Onesta’s Munich lawsuit over two U.S. patents: Western District of TexasThe first-ever assertion of U.S. patents in a German court has now drawn, anything but unexpectedly, countermeasures in U.S. district court.
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BREAKING: Access Advance acquires Via Licensing Alliance’s HEVC, VVC patent pools
Read more: BREAKING: Access Advance acquires Via Licensing Alliance’s HEVC, VVC patent poolsThe pools will initially continue running independently, but the goal is to have one combined program – to eliminate market fragmentation – by this time next year, Access Advance’s CEO, Peter Moller, told ip fray.
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BREAKING: Chinese FRAND determination in ZTE v. Samsung could come down any day now and set new Chinese speed record
Read more: BREAKING: Chinese FRAND determination in ZTE v. Samsung could come down any day now and set new Chinese speed recordA pretrial hearing in London revealed that a Chinese FRAND determination for a ZTE-Samsung SEP license is imminent.
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BREAKING: Heath Hoglund steps down as Via Licensing Alliance President
Read more: BREAKING: Heath Hoglund steps down as Via Licensing Alliance PresidentVia Licensing Alliance President Heath Hoglund has announced today that he is leaving the company at the end of the year “for a new opportunity”.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): clarification of standards for damages, claim construction, recall
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): clarification of standards for damages, claim construction, recallThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our December 7, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD denies recall over indirect infringement; clarifies damages period, interim damages, non-inventiveness pleading standard
Read more: UPC’s Dusseldorf LD denies recall over indirect infringement; clarifies damages period, interim damages, non-inventiveness pleading standardNot only substantial non-infringing use in the territory covered by the patent-in-suit but also the possibility of exports to other countries weighs against a recall.
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Double jeopardy takes down Sanofi’s cabazitaxel use patent as UPC’s Munich LD revokes after EPO BoA affirmance
Read more: Double jeopardy takes down Sanofi’s cabazitaxel use patent as UPC’s Munich LD revokes after EPO BoA affirmanceLawyers representing generics makers welcomed the UPC’s decision to revoke the patent regardless of a prior EPO decision to the contrary.
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