Category: Jurisdictions
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AST-sold patents on the loose again as Samsung faces Texas DRAM complaint
A number of U.S. lawsuits have been filed in recent months involving patents sold to PAEs under AST’s “catch-and-release” model.
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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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Delhi High Court upholds refusal of injunction against Xiaomi, holds nine-year delay is by itself sufficient to deny interim relief
The Delhi HC Division Bench has dismissed Conqueror Innovations’ appeal against Xiaomi, holding that a nine-year delay in suing is by itself sufficient to refuse an interim injunction, and that the appellants’ new claim construction contradicted their own pleadings.
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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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Brazilian judge grants IBEX merits-based PI against Disney over HEVC patent: threatens Disney+ suspension through app stores, device manufacturers
A Rio de Janeiro judge has found that Disney’s HEVC encoders infringe one of IBEX’s patents and has ordered compliance within 15 days, or it will face a rare order directed at app stores and device makers to suspend Disney+ in Brazil.
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Telefónica 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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Solar patent wars: GameChange hits back at Nextpower in District of Delaware over solar tracking technology
The battle opens another front in the complex web of patent disputes over solar energy technologies.
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Yangtze Memory urges U.S. district court to lift stay on three-year 3D NAND patent infringement litigation against Micron
Every additional month of delay erodes YMTC’s patents’ commercial value, the company has argued, as it asks the Northern District of California to lift a stay in a patent infringement case YMTC filed almost three years ago.
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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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China’s top court reinforces human-inventor rule, scope of human-contribution standard likely to be tested in future litigation
China’s top court has reissued the rule that AI itself cannot be an inventor and expressly requires a natural person to make a creative contribution to an AI-assisted invention, bringing an approach already taken by the CNIPA into the judicial framework.