Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Chinese smart ring maker Zepp Health files counterattack against Oura in Eastern District of Texas
Zepp Health, a Chinese smart wearable manufacturer, has filed a complaint against Finnish rival Oura in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, five months after the latter targeted it in its campaign in the same court, as well as the United States International Trade Commission.Â
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BREAKING: UPC Mannheim LD grants Nokia anti-antisuit injunction against automaker Geely’s Chinese interim-license request
After InterDigital v. Amazon, the UPC has again entered a preliminary injunction in order to prevent foreign interference with UPC proceedings in the form of an interim license. The maximum iniital penalty is €50M.
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Access Advance offers support to Sisvel licensor Wilus in Askey injunction dispute
While Access Advance isn’t involved in Wi-Fi standards, it sees that an injunction against Askey—which could likely settle with a pool license from Sisvel, through which Wilus licenses its SEPs—stands to benefit SEP owners and pool operators across the board.
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UPC Milan LD stays Spanish long-arm infringement claim pending national revocation: a first
The UPC’s Milan LD confirmed long-arm jurisdiction over Spanish distributor Motocard, but stayed the infringement claim for Spain pending a national revocation action, the first such stay by the UPC.
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Truck maker PACCAR’s Avanci license can now be considered certain as Longhorn follows Acer in withdrawing infringement litigation
After a withdrawal by Acer in Munich, one by Longhorn followed in Texas.
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Texas jury finds SAP infringed Cyandia patents, sets stage for post-verdict fights over $17M-51M+ damages and injunction
A Marshall, Texas jury found that SAP willfully infringed two Cyandia patents covering channel grid technology and awarded a running royalty for past damages.
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Huawei’s strategic planning head Emil Zhang on upping pool participation in “critical” verticals
Huawei believes patent pools, such as Sisvel’s point-of-sale patent programme, will fix all the legal uncertainty in critical, fragmented technology verticals, the company’s Head of Strategic Planning & Key Projects Department told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Brazilian court enters Panasonic v. HMD PI: Via AAC pool offer was FRAND enough; UPC, German case law cited; ruling points to ip fray
Brazilian SEP case law is evolving rapidly, and the judges in Rio de Janeiro increasingly follow developments in other jurisdictions. Occasionally they do so via ip fray.
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Corning wins UPC injunction against TCL TVs over glass sheet patent, validating Hisense decision to settle just before CD ruling on validity
After getting LG and Hisense to settle, Corning has now won a UPC ruling against TCL over glass sheets used in TVs. The patent will expire in June, however, and TCL says its current products do not infringe.
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For indirect infringement, the other component need not actually exist, says UPC Dusseldorf LD in filter cartridge case
The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD ruled that a filter cartridge can indirectly infringe a patent even if the complementary funnel is not yet on the market. It also clarified patent exhaustion.