Category: Jurisdictions
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Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart announces departure from USPTO
In a social media post, Ms. Stewart said she will leave the agency later this week and return to private practice.
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Fractus and Geotab end U.S. litigation over IoT antenna tech after IPR, ex parte attempts fall to “settled expectations”
Spain’s Fractus described the settlement as “an important milestone” in IoT markets including connected transport and fleet management.
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ParTec expands supercomputer patent enforcement campaign: sues Hewlett Packard Enterprise at UPC Munich LD
ParTec and its licensing partner BF exaQC have filed a new UPC complaint against Hewlett Packard Enterprise, asserting two supercomputer patents in Munich.
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Tesla wins UK Supreme Court appeal against InterDigital & Avanci: totally unhinged UKSC engages in reckless judicial imperialism
Some of the same judges who were responsible for Unwired v. Huawei and the interjurisdictional friction it created have stepped over the line once more, engaging in outright usurpation.
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ITC returns to 100% manpower for first time in four years
The U.S. Senate has now confirmed all five of President Trump’s nominees to the ITC, restoring the Commission to its full six-member panel for the first time since 2022.
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‘We’ll be able to scale our business infinitely’: behind the creation of Erich Spangenberg’s digital twin Agatha
In an exclusive interview with ip fray, SIM IP’s Erich Spangenberg and Garden Intel’s Adi Sidapara discuss how Agatha, an AI-driven digital twin of how Mr. Spangenberg communicates and thinks about IP, will be able to scale their IP monetization business “infinitely”.
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Canada’s Supreme Court clarifies (un)patentability of medical treatment methods in landmark decision
Janssen and Pharmascience have been locked in litigation since 2020 over the former’s antipsychotic patent, which includes claims directed towards dosage regimens.
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Dusseldorf UPC follows Mannheim on NDA-related issue in InterDigital v. Disney
The Dusseldorf Local Division followed the Mannheim Local Division’s approach to confidentiality disputes in FRAND litigation, holding that Disney must bear the consequences of refusing to permit disclosure of licensing negotiations conducted under an NDA.
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Munich court pauses Siemens v. Honor SEP suit ahead of validity ruling
The Munich I Regional Court has stayed one of Siemens’s two patent infringement actions against Honor despite the absence of a preliminary assessment in the parallel validity proceedings, providing another data point in the debate over when German courts will suspend SEP litigation pending nullity challenges.
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Lenovo sues Longhorn IP and Hamilcar Barca in North Carolina, invokes state anti-troll law over patent demands
Lenovo has taken the fight to two Longhorn IP entities in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, seeking invalidity rulings on four patents and damages under the state’s anti-patent-troll statute.