Category: IP License Agreements
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ETRI announces $34M annual revenue from standard-essential patents
The Korean research institute has reported its 2025 revenue from licensing standard-essential patents, along with new essentiality declarations.
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Nokia announces three new IoT patent licensing agreements, including with ADT – without litigation
Nokia has today announced that it has successfully licensed three leading residential security systems providers, including ADT, through its IoT licensing program – all of which were negotiated litigation-free.
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Eeva Hakoranta, former InterDigital Chief Licensing Officer: ‘Focus on the impact and great things will follow’
The former InterDigital Chief Licensing Officer spoke to ip fray on the sidelines of Via Licensing Alliance’s Business Summit about why she stepped down from her role, where she is headed next, and some of the obstacles she has had to overcome as a woman in IP.
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Colombia pushes for compulsory licensing of U.S. pharma company’s patents
Colombia’s Health Minister has revived a previous administration’s investigation into four of U.S. pharma company Gilead’s patents at the core of Hepatitis-C treatment, issuing a public interest declaration to make the licensing of such patents compulsory.
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Nokia signs bilateral wireless patent licensing agreement with automaker Stellantis, acquires WiFi 7 patents from Huawei
In a blog post today, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, announced that the company has signed a bilateral patent licensing agreement with Stellantis – its fourth major WLAN license deal with an automaker this year – and acquired several of Huawei’s WiFi 7-related patents.
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Nokia continues making strides in automotive patent licensing: now has four Chinese automakers licensed, Mercedes
During an event today, Patrik Hammarén, President of Nokia Technologies, revealed that the company now has licenses with four Chinese automakers covering its cellular technologies, and signed a new patent licensing deal with Mercedes involving its wireless technologies last week.
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Huawei earned over $630 million in patent licensing revenue in 2024, balanced IPR philosophy “widely endorsed” by industry
Huawei’s Chief Legal Officer, Liuping Song, announced during the company’s annual IP Forum today that the patent royalties it has paid over the years are nearly three times the amount of royalties it has received, while it spent $25 billion in R&D in 2024 alone.
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Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP acquires Qord IP patent portfolio: includes dozens of IoT assets
This is the start of a 3.5-day hearing in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales, with Acer, ASUS and Hisense seeking interim licenses from Nokia.
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Litigation funding increasingly “unnecessarily” complex because of predatory litigation funding myths, SIM IP director says
Firms like Sauvegarder Investment Management can help patentees assert their assets in this increasingly expensive system, but would prefer to buy the patents that they enforce first, SIM IP’s Jennifer Burdman said on an online panel today.
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“Game changer” Pantech-Google FRAND ruling could open up Japan’s SEP enforcement landscape
Pantech’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.