Author: Florian Mueller
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UPC’s Munich LD turns into assignment lottery (panel 1 or 2) for patentees; case management disadvantages non-SEP holders; long delays
The situation at the UPC’s Munich LD is reminiscent of a period where at the Munich I Regional Court plaintiffs were praying for their case to be assigned to one panel and not the other.
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UPC’s Munich LD clears chipset makers Qualcomm and NVIDIA of infringement: appeals very likely
Today the Munich Local Division’s second panel found no infringement in cases targeting Qualcomm and NVIDIA chipsets.
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Recent UPC CoA ruling will lead to more file wrapper arguments even though it clearly wasn’t intended to strengthen them
The CoA is merely being consistent with its Alexion v. Amgen guidance on file wrapper arguments, but some litigants will interpret the latest holding as creating new opportunities for them…
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UPC CoA heard two jurisdictional appeals from Paris LD (FRAND and long-arm), shows strong inclination in one case
Sun Patent Trust was the first SEP holder to seek a FRAND determination in the UPC. French company KeeeX is suing OpenAI, Adobe, a tech industry coalition and others.
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Today’s new UPC and EWHC orders show Amazon must do more to avoid contempt sanctions in InterDigital case: ip fray’s concerns validated
ip fray explained two days ago that a UK court order in an Amazon v. InterDigital FRAND case was not enough for Amazon to comply with the UPC’s requirements. A new UPC order validates that assessment.
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UK-UPC relations enter into Cold War phase or worse with new court order accusing UPC of unfairness while reflecting UK’s Soviet negotiation style
“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable” is how JFK described Soviet negotiation tactics during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. It is unfortunate that a new UK court order makes mockery of the UPC’s peace proposal.
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UPC CoA refers four questions of long-arm jurisdiction to ECJ: scenarios such as where representative for product safety compliance serves as anchor defendant
This article contains table that shows the differences between the four questions, provides easier-to-read version so fall four questions, and explains common scenarios not covered by the questions.
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Wilus argues Samsung, Askey not entitled to FRAND terms after years of hold-out; attacks Samsung’s “surreptitious” circumvention of page limits
Against ASUS subsidiary and router maker Askey, Wilus is seeking the first U.S. SEP injunction since 2007. Now it is seeking other pretrial decisions against Askey and Samsung.
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UK court joins UPC Mannheim in Amazon-Interdigital de-escalation pending appeal — but UK-UPC peace is fragile given what was said today
All eyes are now on the UPC CoA, but the UK court would actually like InterDigital to concede the appeal.