Category: United States
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Astellas settles parallel bladder treatment patent suits against Indiaâs Lupin, Zydus: licensing deals worth combined $210 million
Japanese pharmaceutical giant Astellas has signed patent licensing agreements with Indian rivals Lupin and Zydus worth over $210 million, ending all ongoing litigation between the companies in the District of Delaware.
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DĂ©tente in Munich lawsuits over U.S. patents: unconventional tactics against BMW likely spurred settlement talks with Qualcomm
A settlement between Qualcomm and Onesta is a mere formality. A new filing by Onesta in Munich shows that this litigation is most likely coming to an end very soon.
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InterDigital’s U.S. lawsuit against Hisense finally discoverable; thus suing both Hisense and TCL in five jurisdictions (U.S., BR, UPC, DE, IN)
Context: On Tuesday, InterDigital announced lawsuits against TCL and Hisense in the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Germany, Brazil, and India; and a U.S. lawsuit against TCL quickly became discoverable (February 10, 2026 ip fray article). What’s new: Now an InterDigital v. Hisense U.S. patent infringement lawsuit filed on Tuesday has also become discoverable. See below….
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U.S. value-based patent tax plans scrapped
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has confirmed that his plans to impose a 1-5% tax based on the value of granted U.S. patents will no longer be âgoing anywhereâ. He stated during a Subcommittee hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee: âHow in the world could we do that? How in the world could anyone reasonably…
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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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Novo Nordisk files fresh semaglutide patent infringement suit in District of Delaware
Novo Nordisk has sued telehealth medication provider Hims & Hers over the infringement of one of its semaglutide patents, as the company faces headwinds over its weightloss drugs for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Onesta settling with Qualcomm, but keeping up pressure on its customer BMW with Munich lawsuits over U.S. patents: new filings
BMW argues that Onesta’s patent infringement allegations relate to Qualcomm chips. A patent agreement between Onesta and Qualcomm is imminent, but will it benefit BMW?
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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 Officeâs Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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Patent lawyers slapped with $12,000 fine for AI-generated submissions: level of hallucinations in court filings âstaggeringâ, says judge
United States District Judge Julie Robinson of the United States Court for the District of Kansas has fined four lawyers $12,000 for submitting fabricated AI-generated case citations in a patent infringement case. The misrepresented material was a consequence of artificial intelligence hallucinations, which are heavily on the rise.