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UK judge finds old license is no get-out-of-jail-free card for Lenovo; meanwhile, Ericsson declines to extend interim license after appellate ruling
Read more: UK judge finds old license is no get-out-of-jail-free card for Lenovo; meanwhile, Ericsson declines to extend interim license after appellate rulingMr Justice Meade of the High Court of Justice for England & Wales has decided on the interpretation of a 2011 Motorola-Ericsson patent license. On key questions he agrees with ALJ Elliot of the USITC.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA upholds preliminary injunction with clarification on competitive harm; more AASIs; and more
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA upholds preliminary injunction with clarification on competitive harm; more AASIs; and moreThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our March 1, 2025 UPC Roundup, which include several interesting decisions at both the Court of Appeal (CoA) and the Court of First Instance (CFI). 1. CoA upholds provisional measures in Syngenta v. Sumi Agro, clarifies competitive…
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Ericsson faces Monday deadline by UK appeals court to (promise to) grant interim license to Lenovo — but is appealing LJ Arnold’s errors and fallacies
Read more: Ericsson faces Monday deadline by UK appeals court to (promise to) grant interim license to Lenovo — but is appealing LJ Arnold’s errors and fallaciesThe England & Wales Court of Appeal said in an order that Ericsson will be deemed in breach of its ETSI FRAND obligation unless it grant Lenovos an interim license, or promises to do so if its Supreme Court appeal fails.
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‘I fail to understand why Licensing Negotiation Groups are needed’: Avanci, Ericsson question why LNGs should intervene in SEP licensing
Read more: ‘I fail to understand why Licensing Negotiation Groups are needed’: Avanci, Ericsson question why LNGs should intervene in SEP licensingUta Schneider, Vice President of Global Government Affairs at Avanci, and Patrick Hofkens, Head of IPR Policy at Ericsson, clashed with fellow panellists at a conference in Warsaw today following a European Commission suggestion to introduce LNG-specific framework.
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‘SEPs are life’ but finite resources, geopolitical circumstances put proposed EU SEP Regulation on ‘timeout’: European Commission’s Kamil Kiljański
Read more: ‘SEPs are life’ but finite resources, geopolitical circumstances put proposed EU SEP Regulation on ‘timeout’: European Commission’s Kamil KiljańskiSpeaking at a SEP conference in Warsaw today, DG GROW IP deputy director Kamil Kiljański emphasized that the European Commission’s decision to withdraw its proposed SEP regulation was only on a “timeout” and that a large factor that contributed to this was a shift in geopolitical circumstances – in particular those in the U.S. and…
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BREAKING: Tesla loses pool rate determination appeal against Avanci and InterDigital in UK: Lord Justice Arnold got outvoted
Read more: BREAKING: Tesla loses pool rate determination appeal against Avanci and InterDigital in UK: Lord Justice Arnold got outvotedLord Justice Phillips and Lady Justice Whipple voted against the panel member with the most patent-specific experience, applying common sense.
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AA licensors win two AASIs in UPC’s Munich Local Division: Dolby, Sun Patent Trust defang Roku’s lawsuit in District of Massachusetts
Read more: AA licensors win two AASIs in UPC’s Munich Local Division: Dolby, Sun Patent Trust defang Roku’s lawsuit in District of MassachusettsContext: HP and TCL settled their disputes over HEVC (H.265) video codec patents through an Access Advance pool license last fall (part 2 of an October 30, 2024 ip fray article). Certain cases related to those disputes were pending in the Unified Patent Court (UPC). But certain cases brought by Access Advance licensors Dolby and…
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Podcast on SEP enforcement in Latin America with experienced Brazilian, Colombian patent litigators
Read more: Podcast on SEP enforcement in Latin America with experienced Brazilian, Colombian patent litigatorsBrazil and Colombia have become increasingly attractive venues for standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement. In the past 12 months, Brazil has become a particularly popular venue for major international patent infringement disputes. In some of those cases, such as ZTE v. Samsung, the courts also awarded the patentee a preliminary injunction (PI) (February 13, 2025 ip…
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