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Category: MediaTek

MediaTek bets on UK judicial overreach with early 2026 FRAND trial in Huawei dispute, gets slapped with Brazilian injunctions

April 15, 2025

Context: The standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing dispute between Huawei and MediaTek is getting more attention now, in no small part due to Huawei having recently filed two Unified Patent Court (UPC) complaints (April 11, 2025 ip fray article). Previously, MediaTek case against Huawei in the UK, with a throw-in-the-kitchen-sink range of claims from antitrust to…
Huawei’s two UPC lawsuits against MediaTek add another jurisdiction to a dispute that actually has its center of gravity in China

April 11, 2025

Context: Recently, a MediaTek case against Huawei in the UK, with a wide range of claims from antitrust to FRAND to declaratory judgment to infringement, survived a jurisdictional challenge, as the hurdle at that stage is low (March 2025 LinkedIn post by ip fray) What’s new: The two latest infringement complaints listed in the public…
Two FRAND firsts for the UPC: first SEP settlement (Nokia-Verifone), first FRAND appellate hearing (OPPO-Panasonic)

August 14, 2024

Virtually simultaneously, the Unified Patent Court has seen its first SEP dispute settled and its Court of Appeal has heard the first FRAND-specific appeal.
$1 million bounty for suing patent licensee’s rivals may be lawful owing to Noerr-Pennington doctrine, anti-SLAPP statute: U.S. court

May 7, 2024

Context: The Northern District of California has become a particularly popular venue for bringing antitrust claims that involve patent litigation and/or licensing. Its judges are considered more receptive to expansive antitrust ideas, and less patentee-friendly, than those in other districts. But since FTC v. Qualcomm, which was overturned on appeal, patent-related antitrust claims have typically…

Category: MediaTek

MediaTek bets on UK judicial overreach with early 2026 FRAND trial in Huawei dispute, gets slapped with Brazilian injunctions

Huawei’s two UPC lawsuits against MediaTek add another jurisdiction to a dispute that actually has its center of gravity in China

Two FRAND firsts for the UPC: first SEP settlement (Nokia-Verifone), first FRAND appellate hearing (OPPO-Panasonic)

$1 million bounty for suing patent licensee’s rivals may be lawful owing to Noerr-Pennington doctrine, anti-SLAPP statute: U.S. court