Category: Jurisdictions
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AstraZeneca faces fresh mRNA patent infringement allegations in District of Delaware
Gene-editing tech company Factor Bioscience has sued AstraZeneca and its affiliate Cellectis over the infringement of three mRNA-related patents.
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Starbucks invokes anti-patent-troll state law in major defensive complaint against Key Patent Innovations and its shell company
This is one of the most notable prophylactic patent-related lawsuits because it takes aim at a non-practicing entity’s shell company from multiple angles.
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Via LA announces semiconductor memory patent pool program: first in series of semiconductor-related licensing programs
Via Licensing Alliance has announced plans to launch a patent pool program dedicated to licensing semiconductor memory technologies, as part of a new series of programs that will span the semiconductor industry.
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Affirmance of Brazilian preliminary injunction dissuaded BYD from 4G holdout, paved way to Avanci license-based settlement
The sequence of events suggests that the denial of BYD’s motion for reconsideration led to a settlement at this point.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayer’s rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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American Express handed win in loyalty program patent infringement dispute
A U.S. district court has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Loyal-T Systems LLC against American Express for failing to state a claim for relief.
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Moderna, Alnylam settle U.S. COVID vaccine patent infringement dispute
Alnylam has settled its three-year dispute against Moderna in the District of Delaware, after a precedential Federal Circuit decision found the patentee had acted as its own lexicographer in defining a key patent specification term, foreclosing its infringement allegations.