Category: Jurisdictions
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Ericsson and OPPO announce license deal while InterDigital unconvincingly attempts to explain away its UK FRAND defeat
Ericsson announces a multi-year license agreement with OPPO, a company against which InterDigital continues to litigate. InterDigital tries to explain away its UK defeat, but the damage is done.
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Lenovo’s major UK win over InterDigital: chart and further analysis
Friday’s UK appellate ruling awards InterDigital a per-unit royalty from Lenovo that amounts to only 45% of what it was seeking.
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Lenovo defeats InterDigital in UK: FRAND rate of 22.5 cents per unit vs. 17.5 cents before, way below InterDigital’s 49 cents
While InterDigital claims victory, the numbers speak a clear langiuage: Lenovo won.
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UK court’s denial of interim SEP license requested by Xiaomi due to specific deficiencies, next case could have different outcome
A UK judge’s denial of a declaration that Xiaomi had an interim license to Panasonic’s standard-pessential patents is a setback for implementers, but does not put the question to rest.
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Gallium nitride patent wars: ITC judge believes Innoscience infringes one of four patents originally asserted by EPC, but PTAB IPR is pending
Administrative Law Judge Clark Cheney has identified a patent infringement by Innoscience. Efficient Power Conversion prevailed on one of the four patents it originally asserted.
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Damages are owed if patent would be infringed in Germany and promotion leads to actual foreign sales and production: Federal Court of Justice
The Federal Court of Justice of Germany has vacated and remanded a zero-damages decision in a case in which a machine was installed in a foreign country, where the patent had not been renewed, but promoted in Germany.
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Next Munich SEP injunction looms large in Panasonic v. OPPO: court inclined to deem patent valid and essential
At yesterday’s Panasonic v. OPPO trial, the Munich I Regional Court’s 21st Civil Chamber stated a preliminary opinion according to which the patent is valid and infringed. An injunction looms large.
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Chinese courts will now set global FRAND rates for patent pools at implementers’ requests: Supreme People’s Court ruling
China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has ruled in favor of implementer TCL and held that Chinese courts can set global FRAND rates for standard-essential patent pools (in this case, an Access Advance pool).
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UPC CoA order clarifies: arguments for stay are stricken if made only at interim conference; and reveals request for ECJ referral
A patent holder suing Nokia has defended its patent in the Federal Patent Court of Germany, believes to be close to affirmance of that decision by the Federal Court of Justice and now doesn’t want the UPC to rule on a revocation claim.