Category: Eastern District of Texas
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USPTO, DOJ file 3rd joint pro-injunction brief since June in standards-RELATED but NOT undisputedly standard-ESSENTIAL patent case: next stop Wilus v. Askey?
Patent holder Collision said that its patents-in-suit were not standard-essential and Samsung did not raise a FRAND defense, but Collision later made infringement arguments that were standards-related.
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Ericsson, Verizon successfully defend 5G antenna patent infringement claims
A jury in the United States District Court for the District of Eastern Texas has found that Ericsson and Verizon have not infringed five of Singaporean cable manufacturer Procomm’s 5G antenna technology patents.
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Apple’s Texas trial win over Optis has implications for UK Supreme Court hearing in June/July: 500M-300M-zero
The question of how to reconcile a global FRAND rate set in the UK (including for past use) with a U.S. damages award is now a non-issue.
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InterDigital files patent infringement actions against Hisense, TCL in UPC, Germany, Brazil, India; TCL also in U.S.
InterDigital has a very successful licensing program and needs to litigate only in a minority of cases. Launching enforcement actions in four (TCL: five) jurisdictions in parallel is a strong statement.
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Lenovo settles long-running U.S. USB-C patent infringement dispute
Lenovo and IT and cloud communications firm Universal Connectivity Technologies have settled a three-year patent infringement dispute that spanned the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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ASUS, TP-Link among targets in new U.S. NPE WiFi patent infringement campaign
Licensing firm AX Wireless LLC has sued ASUSTek, D-Link, TP-Link, and Ubiquiti over the alleged infringement of the same five WiFi-related patents in parallel actions in the Eastern District of Texas, the Central District of California, and the Northern District of Illinois.
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Hisense, AU Optronics successfully defend LCD panel patent infringement allegations: Eastern District of Texas
The win for AU Optronics is particularly significant as it marks the first time in over 22 years that a Taiwanese company has obtained a defense verdict in a patent infringement case against a U.S. company in the Eastern District of Texas, according to the company.
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Canadian Solar gains victory in U.S. solar panel infringement dispute against Maxeon: all patents-in-suit invalidated
The USPTO PTAB has invalidated three of Maxeon’s solar panel technology patents, granting Canadian Solar a major win in the ongoing solar panel patent infringement wars.
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Acer sues AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon in Eastern District of Texas
The smartphone manufacturer has taken a similar approach to fellow mobile phone maker ASUS, targeting the companies’ cellular base stations, some of which are equipped by Nokia, but most of which are supplied by Ericsson.
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Target sued in Eastern District of Texas over payment system patent infringement
Cardtek (PayCore) has sued U.S. retailer Target in the United States Districs Court for the Eastern District of Texas over the alleged infringement of three of its patents related to payment systems.