Category: Germany
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Gallium nitride patent wars: Innoscience, Infineon clash over Munich injunction rulings
Any injunction granted in the Munich I Regional Court’s rulings yesterday would not apply to Innoscience’s current product portfolio, as it falls outside the scope of Infineon’s asserted German patents, Innoscience has publicly asserted. This claim directly opposes Infineon’s announcement that Innoscience suffered two more defeats yesterday.
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OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum less than one week away (23, 24 June)
The 14th edition of this event will be held in the DPMA Forum, Munich next week. ip fray plans to cover the conference during and after it takes place.
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Munich I Regional Court upholds WobbleWorks 3D pen PI against Chinese competitor granted on ex parte basis in January
In late January, just before the Nuremberg Toy Fair, WobbleWorks, maker of the 3Doodler pen, obtained ex parte preliminary injunctions (PIs) in Germany over a 3D drawing device patent.
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InterDigital-Amazon binding arbitration agreement was reached shortly after UPC CoA hearing: last signature on May 31
Nokia’s appellate win over Acer and ASUS strengthened, but the UPC CoA weakened, InterDigital’s position vis-Ă -vis Amazon.
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BREAKING: InterDigital and Amazon will determine video patent licensing terms through arbitration
The parties have agreed to withdraw all infringement and (F)RAND litigation in favor of binding arbitration.
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Tulip settles disputes with Nissan and Renault unit Dacia over LG, Panasonic battery patents ahead of Munich PI hearing
The Munich I Regional Court has canceled preliminary injunction hearings in Tulip Innovation’s cases against Nissan and Dacia (Renault). The only plausible explanation is that both automakers have settled.
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Federal Patent Court revokes second Nera patent in Xiaomi dispute; all three infringement actions have now failed at first instance
The Federal Patent Court has revoked Nera Innovations’ EP2947606, the second of three patents asserted against Xiaomi to fall at first instance. Nera must now win on appeal to achieve anything.
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German innovative strength has significantly weakened due to insufficient investment in R&D, report reveals
China has taken ownership of more than 11,300 patents developed in Germany over the past ​two decades, and that number is likely to keep increasing, according to a study by the ‌German Economic Institute (IW).
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Podcast: marking UPC’s three-year anniversary with UPC litigator Dr. Wim Maas (Winston Taylor)
In our latest podcast episode, ip fray interviewed Wim Maas, partner and trial attorney at Winston Taylor, who is a very frequent user of the Unified Patent Court.
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Munich court orders six months of coercive detention over UPC enforcement gamesmanship in silicone implant patent dispute
The Munich I Regional Court ordered coercive detention for six months against a Polytech managing director after finding the company used its parent as a strawman to block Silimed’s planned UPC enforcement of a disputed patent.