Author: Florian Mueller
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OPPO’s partnership with Access Advance becomes even more multi-faceted as it takes VVC license, gets MCBA benefits, but for now reserves all VVC enforcement rights
OPPO is asserting a VVC patent against ASUS in China and not (for now) a licensor of VVC Advance.
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Warner Bros. Discovery “pulls a Samsung” against Nokia with U.S. FRAND/antitrust claims after similar ones in other venues; also argues exhaustion by Apple, Amazon licenses
in the midst of a major merger battle, Warner Bros. Discovery is pursuing FRAND matters in at least three different venues now.
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Federal Circuit holds there is no uniform deadline for appeal of ITC ruling if some defendants were found to violate, others weren’t
Crocs thought it had more time because of the Presidential review period. The Federal Circuit disagreed.
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Nokia strikes Hisense license deal as TV maker prefers global patent peace over London dead end; Acer, ASUS lose important co-defendant
Unlike Hisense, Acer and ASUS make computers that are also used for recording video. Encoding claims, however, are outside the ITU FRAND scope.
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Roku takes HEVC Advance license: court filings in Brazil, UPC; UPDATE: Advance confirms both device and streaming license
A Brazilian court document and a flurry of non-public UPC filings pointed to a settlement, which was subsequently confirmed.
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BREAKING: InterDigital, Xiaomi renew patent license agreement without litigation; five-year term; cellular, WiFi, HEVC patents included
InterDigital has signed a new major license agreement with a party that is undisclosed, but whose name can be deduced from previously available information.
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Contrasting appellate tactics show Amazon feels protected by UK ASI against InterDigital’s Munich AILI, but is scared of UPC sua sponte sanctions
There are two striking differences between Amazon’s UPC and Munich appeals of InterDigital’s anti-interim-license injunctions.
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BREAKING: Heath Hoglund, who left Via last month, joins Sisvel as Chief IP Officer
This is Sisvel’s highest-profile external hire.
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Tesla should learn from Amazon-InterDigital, take an Avanci 5G license: even if its long-shot UKSC appeal succeeded, it wouldn’t help
For cross-jurisdictional reasons, Tesla should give up on its UK case against Avanci and InterDigital, in which it lost the first two rounds.