Category: European Union
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UPC’s Lisbon LD rejects Ericsson’s attempt to render Transsion SEP suit “devoid of purpose”
The UPC’s Lisbon LD has rejected Ericsson’s attempt to strike out Transsion’s SEP injunction claims under Rules 360 and 361 RoP, holding that the existence of parallel FRAND proceedings in The Hague does not render the Lisbon action “devoid of purpose” or make the claims manifestly bound to fail.
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Global pharma company Adalvo eying U.S. expansion, says Chief IP Officer
While the B2B pharma company has expanded its European business significantly in the last decade, it is now turning to the U.S. to bring its licensing business, Adalvo’s Toni Santamaria told ip fray at IP Dealmakers earlier this month.
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Podcast: interview with Dr. Peter Georg Picht, SEP and competition law expert
In our latest podcast episode, ip fray interviewed Dr. Peter Georg Picht, an IP and competition law professor at Zurich University, and a fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
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IP is the “basis of Europe’s competitiveness” – it would be “unrealistic” to think otherwise, says IP Europe’s new Secretary General Niklas Lagergren
“Our ideas and our intellectual property are basically the only possible basis we have for our future competitiveness,” Mr. Lagergren, who boasts 30 years in IP policy experience in Brussels, told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Helsinki LD solves part of less-frequented UPC venues’ chicken-and-egg problem
The Helsinki LD adopts the Hague LD’s equivalence standard based on an approach that offers greater predictability for litigants considering smaller UPC venues. AIM lost again.
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Belgian SME keeps Dutch at UPC Brussels LD as CFI president rejects Esko’s bid to switch case to English
The President of the UPC Court of First Instance has refused Esko Software’s push for English, keeping a Brussels patent fight in Dutch.
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UPC Milan LD stays Spanish long-arm infringement claim pending national revocation: a first
The UPC’s Milan LD confirmed long-arm jurisdiction over Spanish distributor Motocard, but stayed the infringement claim for Spain pending a national revocation action, the first such stay by the UPC.
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BREAKING: China issues regulations countering foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction
The global ZTE v. Samsung FRAND rate-setting decision is potentially a targeted scenario.