Category: Apple
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U.S. appeals court to Apple: now prove the value of your IP in district court (for the first time since the Samsung patent spat)
An appellate ruling that largely upheld contempt sanctions imposed on Apple will now lead to further proceedings in district court.
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USPTO upholds core Proxense patent in Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Google invalidation cases
Biometrics firm Proxense has bagged a key win in ongoing big tech patent litigation, after the United States Patent & Trademark Office upheld a key patent following a review requested by Samsung.
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BREAKING: Apple-backed ACT | The App Association withdraws ETSI membership application at General Assembly in face of resistance to astroturfing
ip fray called on ETSI members to vote against the application. Apparently ACT saw that it could not win the vote.
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Masimo’s $634M jury verdict against Apple, limited ITC reopening don’t give leverage for quick settlement, but JPI is now possible (though potentially costly)
The winning patent expired in 2022, and there are still some trade secrets claims in the case, but Apple came close to defeating them.
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UK Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal of Optis’s $700M win with cast of characters familiar from Unwired: roller coaster ride?
Three of the questions for review relate to how UK courts can arrive at a FRAND rate, and one to the implications for parallel cases in foreign jurisdictions.
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Nokia, InterDigital, others defend confidentiality of license terms in UK appeal related to Optis v. Apple, but needed appeals court’s help due to blind spot
It is difficult to seek redactions of “unknown unknowns”, but the England & Wales Court of Appeal allowed amendments at the appellate hearing.
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Donald Trump Jr. indirectly collects royalties from Apple through one of his two known patent investments: UPC lawsuit withdrawn
Legendary patent monetizer Erich Spangenberg did it again.
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Masimo insinuates Trump lets Apple infringe patents in exchange for investment: ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok AI share this reading
This interpretation of the medical device maker’s complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is supported by Grok AI’s analysis.
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Donald Trump Jr. owns 5% of patent monetizer Fintiv, his second patent investment to come to light this year (after SIM IP)
We were first to report on Mr. Trump’s investment in famous patent monetizer Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP. It turns out he has invested in at least one other patent monetizer.