Author: Florian Mueller
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Human lives at stake: Munich court warns against chilling effect of excessive prior art eligibility as rivaroxaban dispute heads into final round
All other Munich landmark rulings related to access to injunctive relief, be it about SEPs, the invalidity defense to PIs, or anti-antisuit relief in different forms. The latest one is about patients more so than patents.
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Brazilian court enters Panasonic v. HMD PI: Via AAC pool offer was FRAND enough; UPC, German case law cited; ruling points to ip fray
Brazilian SEP case law is evolving rapidly, and the judges in Rio de Janeiro increasingly follow developments in other jurisdictions. Occasionally they do so via ip fray.
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Federal Circuit revives Teva’s $177M (potentially $530M) damages verdict against Eli Lilly over Emgality headache drug
A $177M jury verdict, potentially tripled for willfulness, has been reinstated, and the standards for written description and enablement for genus-related patents have been clarified.
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Corning wins UPC injunction against TCL TVs over glass sheet patent, validating Hisense decision to settle just before CD ruling on validity
After getting LG and Hisense to settle, Corning has now won a UPC ruling against TCL over glass sheets used in TVs. The patent will expire in June, however, and TCL says its current products do not infringe.
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Brazilian judge gives Snap(chat) five days to justify free-riding on Dolby’s AV1 patents: injunction looms large
The noose is tightening in Brazil with Snapchat operator Snap facing an AV1 injunction very soon unless it takes a license from Dolby or, far more likely, Access Advance.
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BREAKING: Multi-brand truck maker PACCAR apparently took Avanci license — Acer’s Munich case withdrawn on eve of trial
Most likely, PACCAR resolved the disputes with Acer and Longhorn through an Avanci pool license.
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60% of global economy shares UPC Mannheim LD’s concerns over judicial overreach; UK accounts for 3%, but wants to dictate FRAND to everyone
The UK judiciary is increasingly isolated on the global map of patent litigation. Instead of finding its place as a reasonable jurisdiction that renders opinions of persuasive value, it is digging itself an ever deeper hole.
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Milan LD’s handling of Ericsson-ASUS cases does nothing to encourage patentees to file in non-German UPC venues
If high-stakes cases in rapidly-evolving industries take more than 27 months from docketing to hearing, it will be hard for a less popular UPC division to compete with the top four or five venues.
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Let’s not allow AI slop to pollute the SEP ecosystem with plausible-sounding fake reasoning aka hallucination — let’s make responsible use of AI
An “analysis” generated by an engine with a 46% hallucination rate had various members of the SEP ecosystem in awe until we flagged one of the issues. It was a biggie, but not the biggest one.