Category: InterDigital
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‘Markets pay a premium for the smooth line and discount the steps’: tracking patent licensing revenue
In a quarterly report, Jim Harlan, founder of The Standard Strategy (and formerly at InterDigital), tracks a 10-company basket of IP-licensing-centric businesses. His latest report notes that a decline in patent licensing value does not reflect the value itself, but rather the way markets price the “lumpy” shape of licensing revenue.
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Disney switches 4K UHD back on in Germany, but concern over VP9 SEPs lingers
Disney+ has found a workaround allowing it to reintroduce 4K Ultra High Definition features in certain devices following a second InterDigital injunction, but the solution does not address a specific High Dynamic Range quality feature, and would leave it exposed if it faced actions over other multimedia technologies that InterDigital owns.
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Could the UK Supreme Court’s Avanci ruling affect SEP holders outside the pool?
The UK Supreme Court’s Tesla v. InterDigital & Avanci decision did not determine the merits, but opens the door to broader questions about the relationship between patent pool licensing and FRAND obligations.
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Disney switches off 4K UHD and HDR in Germany, possibly other markets due to InterDigital’s UPC injunction
Disney continues to degrade the quality of its streaming offerings in Germany just to comply with InterDigital’s video patent injunctions.
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Tesla wins UK Supreme Court appeal against InterDigital & Avanci: totally unhinged UKSC engages in reckless judicial imperialism
Some of the same judges who were responsible for Unwired v. Huawei and the interjurisdictional friction it created have stepped over the line once more, engaging in outright usurpation.
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Dusseldorf UPC follows Mannheim on NDA-related issue in InterDigital v. Disney
The Dusseldorf Local Division followed the Mannheim Local Division’s approach to confidentiality disputes in FRAND litigation, holding that Disney must bear the consequences of refusing to permit disclosure of licensing negotiations conducted under an NDA.
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BREAKING: UPC grants InterDigital second 11-country injunction against Disney
The UPC’s Dussledorf Local Division has today granted InterDigital the company’s second HEVC patent injunction against Disney, joining the several it has already secured in Germany and Brazil.
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Delhi High Court orders Transsion to pay pro tem security to InterDigital
“Granting pro tem security balances the asymmetric advantage that an implementer has over an SEP holder,” the court emphasized in its judgment.
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UPC grants InterDigital 11-country injunction against Disney’s streaming services: FRAND defense failed in unusual way; €8M (not €500M) security
As predicted by ip fray, InterDigital has won an 11-country HEVC injunction against Disney’s streaming services. Three German injunctions did not lead to a settlement, but this one might.