Category: Eastern District of Texas
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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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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
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Oura escalates Ultrahuman patent dispute with more patents and accusations of editing Wikipedia page to accuse Oura of patent trolling
The patent dispute between smart-ring pioneer Oura and Ultrahuman is getting dirty, with Oura accusing Ultrahuman of having edited its Wikipedia page and impersonated its CEO.
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Netlist files fresh U.S. patent infringement suit against Samsung following demise of memory module partnership
Netlist has sued Samsung and one of its distributors, Avnet, over the alleged infringement of one of its memory module patents.
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Pressure mounting on truck maker PACCAR as Acer files SEP case in Eastern District of Texas after suing in Germany
Acer previously sued truck maker PACCAR in Munich and is now asserting standard-essential patents in the Eastern District of Texas, too — where Longhorn sued before.
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Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and Germany
PACCAR, a truck maker with a market capitalization at a level with Ford and GM, lacks cellular standard-essential patent licenses. It has been sued in Munich and Marshall, TX.
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Nokia defends against third Eastern District of Texas case in a row: no infringement; and only $2M for T-Mobile’s use of Ericsson base stations
Context: Last year, there were only two cases in the Eastern District of Texas during that entire year which plaintiffs lost. In both cases, Nokia was the defendant. On April 5, 2024, Smart Path Connections lost a jury trial over three patents and a fourth had previously been thrown out by the court on summary…
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NPE launches WiFi 6 patent enforcement campaign (11 suits): SEPs formerly owned by ZTE, NXP, Marvell asserted against Acer, ASUSTek, LG, HP, Lenovo
Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC, which owns a portfolio of WiFi 6 standard-essential patents formerly owned by ZTE, Marvell Technology and NXP Semiconductors, has filed 11 complaints in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging “malicious” and “deliberate” patent infringement.
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Pantech launches U.S. 4G SEP enforcement campaign: files ITC complaint, sues TCL, HMD, OnePlus, Lenovo, Tinno
The campaign, which targets the same four patents in the same U.S. district court, was filed shortly after the Korean firm was granted Japan’s first-ever injunction in a FRAND-related case.