Category: Germany
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French consumer rights group urges Disney+ to compensate customers for switching off 4K following InterDigital injunctionsÂ
While Disney+ switched 4K back on again using a workaround in Germany, the streaming giant has not done the same in its other markets, including France.
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Samsung handed third straight win at UPC as Munich LD revokes Maxell’s Galaxy content-casting patent
The UPC’s Munich LD has revoked a Maxell patent covering phone-to-TV content casting for lack of novelty, dismissing its infringement suit against Samsung’s Galaxy lineup and awarding Samsung €620,000.
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YMTC wins two German injunctions against Micron, getting leverage in global NAND memory patent fight: Munich I Regional Court
The Munich I Regional Court today decided two of five YMTC v. Micron cases, granting a pair of injunctions.
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InterDigital brings damages claim against Disney in Germany, building additional pressure to take license
Multiple injunctions have not yet persuaded Disney to take a video patent license from InterDigital, but the streamer is now facing an increasingly diversified enforcement strategy.
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UPC Munich LD will assess implementer willingness ahead of FRAND license disclosure in InterDigital v. TCL
The UPC’s Munich LD has declined to order InterDigital to disclose comparable license agreements while TCL’s willingness to take a FRAND license remains disputed, potentially allowing the court to resolve the FRAND defense without examining those agreements.
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TelefĂłnica successfully defends SEP suit: WiLAN PAE fails to convince German appeals court of infringement
WiLAN patent assertion entity Wireless Future Technologies, Inc. has lost an appeal it filed in the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe in a case against Telefónica over the alleged infringement of one of the PAE’s key LTE-related patents. The case targets Telefónica base stations originally manufactured by Huawei.
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Sol IP sues AGCO over 4G SEPs in Munich: enforcement now hits second farm equipment maker
Sol IP has sued AGCO in Munich over the same two 4G SEPs it used against BYD, extending a pattern of cellular SEP campaigns that has already worked its way through cars and trucks.
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Accord slapped with injunction in Munich after invalidity losses in EPO, German Federal Patent CourtÂ
The Munich I Regional Court has found that Accord infringed TOWA’s dabigatran etexilate patent, issuing an injunction against the company. Dabigatran etexilate is an oral anticoagulant medicine that stops blood clots from forming, preventing strokes, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism, among other things.
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UPC Dusseldorf grants surgical tool maker patent injunction, includes UK
Aesculap has won a UPC ruling against Bojin’s EU authorized representative over a surgical tool patent, but the court held the representative liable only as an intermediary, not as an infringer.
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BMW counters Broadcom patent suit in Munich, brings U.S. declaratory judgment action
BMW has filed a declaratory judgment action against Avago and its subsidiary Broadcom in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, after the latter alleged that it infringed two of its European Ethernet and Wi-Fi patents in a court in Munich, Germany.