Category: United States
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After Amazon’s pre-emptive UK strike, InterDigital has now launched enforcement actions in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over video patents
“Amazon is more interested in litigating than negotiating,” InterDigital’s Chief Legal Officer Josh Schmidt said in a statement today, as the company gears up for an anti-interim-license injunction hearing in the UPC this Friday.
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Federal Circuit tells petitioners that IPR denials are unreviewable regardless of reliance on agency guidance in place at time of filing
A precedential decision reinforces the unreviewability of the USPTO Director’s decisions to deny (or vacate a decision to institute) inter partes reviews.
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Judge appears unconvinced of Samsung’s U.S. FRAND/antitrust complaint against ZTE; Samsung’s counsel hopes for leave to amend
Samsung is pursuing FRAND claims in multiple jurisdictions around the globe, one of which is the U.S., where its complaint is at a high risk of dismissal.
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USPTO Director Squires orders rare Director-initiated ex parte reexamination of Nintendo patent, indirectly as result of games fray article
An article about the grant of a patent to Nintendo by games fray (one of ip fray’s two sibling sites), was picked up by many games media. It apparently got the USPTO’s attention.
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Nokia enforces video streaming patents against Warner Bros. Discovery in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil; overlaps with Paramount cases
WBD’s video streaming business (Max, Discovery+, and related services) has about 126 million global subscribers and generates roughly $2.7–$2.8 billion in quarterly direct-to-consumer revenue.
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet the billion-dollar AI lawyer with a passion for patent litigation
In an exclusive interview with ip fray, Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey discussed some of the biggest cases in his career, how Susman Godfrey finds and trains its lawyers, the difference (and cross-overs) between patent and copyright litigation, and how he decides on whether to take up a case or not.
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‘AI copyright litigation is as technical as patent litigation’: an interview with leading IP litigator Justin Nelson
Susman Godfrey’s Justin Nelson, first-chair trial counsel for a class of copyright holders in a $1.5 billion action against Claude AI maker Anthropic, sat down with ip fray to discuss his work in patent litigation, the technical cross-over between copyright and patent cases, and the Unified Patent Court’s growing role in cross-border disputes.
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Amid transatlantic patent dispute with SAP, Celonis achieves spectacular revival of U.S. antitrust complaint (reminiscent of FTC v. Meta)
Rarely can a U.S. antitrust plaintiff revive a dismissed complaint the way Celonis just achieved against SAP. The two are embroiled in a patent dispute in the U.S. and Europe.
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Nokia signs new patent licensing agreement with pay-TV provider Starz
The deal marks Nokia’s sixth licensing agreement in the video technology patent space this year.
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Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP acquires Qord IP patent portfolio: includes dozens of IoT assets
This is the start of a 3.5-day hearing in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales, with Acer, ASUS and Hisense seeking interim licenses from Nokia.