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BREAKING: UK Supreme Court grants Tesla’s petition to appeal dismissal of Avanci-InterDigital FRAND pool rate case
Read more: BREAKING: UK Supreme Court grants Tesla’s petition to appeal dismissal of Avanci-InterDigital FRAND pool rate caseContext: Last year, Mr Justice [Timothy] Fancourt of the High Court of Justice for England & Wales (EWHC) showed some sympathy for Tesla’s desire to obtain a UK FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) determination against the entire Avanci 5G standard-essential patent (SEP) pool, but ultimately dismissed the complaint (July 18, 2024 ip fray article)….
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Access Advance’s video streaming patent pool has more than 30 licensors, 4 of whom (such as ByteDance, Tencent) are also licensees
Read more: Access Advance’s video streaming patent pool has more than 30 licensors, 4 of whom (such as ByteDance, Tencent) are also licenseesContext: Earlier this year we reported on a surprising move by Access Advance. After years of focusing its licensing efforts on product makers rather than streamers, the Boston-based pool administrator announced its Video Distribution Pool (VDP) (January 16, 2025 ip fray article). What’s new: Today, Access Advance published a list of 31 licensors, only two…
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Xockets sues Amazon for infringing cloud computing patents in Western District of Texas
Read more: Xockets sues Amazon for infringing cloud computing patents in Western District of TexasXockets has filed two parallel patent infringement suits against Amazon, alleging that the tech giant has “willfully trampled” on its IP to achieve “staggering profits” from its cloud computing products.
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U.S. Senate cuts Tillis proposed litigation funding tax bill from larger legislative package
Read more: U.S. Senate cuts Tillis proposed litigation funding tax bill from larger legislative packageThe Senate’s referee, Elizabeth MacDonough, said Thom Tillis’s proposed “Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act” will need to be removed from the Republican tax and spending bill, the same day the U.S. Senator opposed President Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ and confirmed he will not seek re-election in 2026.
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Podcast: interview with ETSI director-general Jan Ellsberger on focus beyond telecoms, including AI, quantum
Read more: Podcast: interview with ETSI director-general Jan Ellsberger on focus beyond telecoms, including AI, quantumThe European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent not-for-profit body dedicated to ICT standardization that addresses market needs expressed by more than 900 ETSI members located in well over 60 countries around the world, while at the same time developing standards in support of the EU legislation. On the occasion of the recording of…
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“Game changer” Pantech-Google FRAND ruling could open up Japan’s SEP enforcement landscape
Read more: “Game changer” Pantech-Google FRAND ruling could open up Japan’s SEP enforcement landscapePantech’s victory in an SEP dispute against Google in the Tokyo District Court shows Japan is shifting its judicial approach to FRAND and injunctive relief.
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No UPC Roundup this weekend, but here’s an update on premium membership and law firm profiles; paywalled content starts in July
Read more: No UPC Roundup this weekend, but here’s an update on premium membership and law firm profiles; paywalled content starts in JulyThe Unified Patent Court (UPC) had an internal event earlier in the week, which is why there were by far not enough decisions for a meaningful roundup. Presumably there will be a lot of orders in the days ahead. Our next UPC Roundup will cover a fortnight. If you look at the menu at the…
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USPTO issues more discretionary denials: Intel, Google, Nokia, Ericsson among losing petitioners
Read more: USPTO issues more discretionary denials: Intel, Google, Nokia, Ericsson among losing petitionersThe significant inter partes review denials come less than a month after a Unified Patents report found the number of such decisions is three times higher than those under Director Andrei Iancu in 2020.
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