Category: IP-related competition matters
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Samsung’s losing streak continues as Frankfurt court rejects FRAND antitrust claim against ZTE
Scattershot FRAND litigation is not paying off for Samsung. Now all eyes are on China, where a FRAND determination could come down very shortly.
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FRAND Friday: Federal Court of Justice, Munich I Regional Court release landmark SEP rulings; here’s why Renault (“daily million-fold infringement”), HMD, EC lost
Two major German SEP/FRAND rulings became publicly accessible this morning. This is a lot for practitioners to digest as both decisions address new questions (or old questions from new angles).
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Qualcomm settles $650M UK consumer class action over allegedly abusive practices (including licensing terms) from position of strength
This is not a settlement where Qualcomm seriously had much to fear. It’s much closer to a unilateral withdrawal.
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U.S. judge publishes decision to throw out Samsung’s U.S. FRAND antitrust action against ZTE; case unlikely to be revived anytime soon
Judge Martínez-Olguín has now published her January 30, 2026 order granting ZTE’s motion to dismiss Samsung’s U.S. FRAND antitrust action.
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Federal Court of Justice of Germany terminates Deutsche Telekom’s antitrust litigation against IPCom over €200M license agreement from 2013
Fortress-backed patent licensing firm IPCom now has legal certainty regarding a licensing agreement it struck with Deutsche Telekom backin 2013.
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Supreme Court of India to decide on national antitrust authority jurisdiction over patent disputes
The Supreme Court of India today indicated that it will now decide an unresolved jurisdictional issue over whether the Competition Commission of India should be able to decide patent-related antitrust cases.
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Major win for ZTE as U.S. federal judge throws out Samsung’s FRAND contract/antitrust action
Samsung brought FRAND claims in multiple jurisdictions. In the UK a trial is underway, in Germany one will be held shortly, but its U.S. case has been dismissed.
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UK app developer Reincubate (Camo) files U.S. antitrust and patent lawsuit against Apple after its functionality became the Continuity Camera feature
This combined patent and antitrust case tackles a case of “Sherlocking”, meaning that Apple incorporated the functionality of a third.party app into its own products.
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UK court pivots from contract to competition law in decision claiming jurisdiction over Amazon’s FRAND action against InterDigital
The High Court of Justice for England & Wales has now published its mid-December decision rejecting InterDigital’s jurisdictional challenge to Amazon’s UK FRAND action.
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UPC threatens Amazon with initial €50M ($59M) fine, “severe consequences”, declares all UK interim licenses unenforceable, suggests EU WTO action against UK
The UPC’s Mannheim LD issued a bombshell order just before Christmas, followed by a Christmas Eve notification to the European Commission that could lead to a WTO complaint.