Author: Florian Mueller
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Urgency analysis of UPC PI motions can involve foreign product presentations, conversations with rivals at trade shows: two new rulings
The UPC’s holistic approach to the urgency requirement for preliminary injunction requests cuts both ways. Patent holders seeking to enforce their right must be prepared to satisfactorily answer certain questions related to urgency.
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UPC Lisbon LD: ASUS owes Ericsson damages for six years of infringing semiconductor patent in eight countries; PI was denied in 2024
Ericsson and ASUS are embroiled in multijurisdictional litigation. The most important showdown so far will be a preliminary injunction hearing to be held by the UPC’s Milan LD on Friday.
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Munich I Regional Court judgment says ZTE could have demanded up to $798.6M from Samsung; court proposes $640M (5-year) settlement
In record time, the Munich I Regional Court has handed down a detailed judgment further to last Thursday’s ZTE v. Samsung bench ruling. It also explains some of the German court’s disagreements with its UK counterpart.
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Ericsson wants “problem-solving, not posturing”: arbitration offer as safe harbor against “court-manufactured” interim licenses
Ericsson is a major SEP holder, but also licenses other companies’ patents for its network infrastructure products. Is head of patent assertions advocates a balanced, symmetrical approach where arbitration remains voluntary but its rejection precludes interim licenses.
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UPC Mannheim hearing went very well for InterDigital — Disney highly likely to be enjoined (as predicted by ip fray) on June 16
Based on an agenda-setting order ahead of the hearing and an analysis of patent claim terms, ip fray had already deduced that today’s hearing was going to be an uphill battle for Disney. And that’s what it was.
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BREAKING: Chinese court determines $731M for 6-year, $600M+ for 5-year ZTE-Samsung FRAND cross-license — UK court is global outlier
The Chongqing Intermedia People’s Court ruling is consistent with those of the Munich I and Frankfurt Regional Courts, and the appellate level of the Rio de Janeiro State Court: 1.9 times (or at least >1.5 times) the UK figure.
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UK rate determination in Samsung v. ZTE of $392M ends up far below what other courts deemed FRAND, invites ever more litigation
A public redacted version of the UK FRAND judgment in Samsung v. ZTE has become available while a Chinese court ruling on the same question is still in the making and injunctions are in place in Brazil and Germany.
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First U.S. SEP injunction since 2007 now unlikely: Wilus v. Askey & Samsung pretrial conference gets canceled on short notice
On Tuesday, Judge Gilstrap first modified the time of a Wilus v. Askey & Samsung pretrial conference, and later in the day canceled it altogether. Some interesting motions are now unlikely ever to be adjudicated.