Category: Microsoft
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Xockets’ antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX may fail, but group boycott of patent holders remains overarching concern
Xockets tries to salvage its antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX over an alleged conspiracy not to license or buy its patents that it claims are essential to AI.
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Via LA licensors suing Microsoft in Germany and/or UPC over HEVC video codec patents
Context: This fall, HP and TCL took HEVC (H.265) patent pool licenses from Access Advance (October 30, 2024 ip fray article), thereby settling several patent infringement cases. Those companies had previously taken licenses from MPEG LA, which got acquired by Via Licensing last year to form Via LA (May 2, 2023 Via LA press release)….
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Judge Gilstrap recuses himself from supercomputer firm ParTec’s patent lawsuit against Microsoft: Judge Schroeder takes over
Judge Rodney Gilstrap has recused himself from ParTec v. Microsoft, the most likely explanation being that he or his spouse hold shares in the latter.
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UPC Paris CD: amended claims proposed as part of statement of defense to revocation claim accepted despite workflow violation (for now)
The UPC’s Paris CD maintains, for now, a permissive standard for workflow violations. In this case, amended claims were proposed along with the statement of defense to a revocation claim.
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UPC’s Paris CD: disloyalty of counsel is not the other party’s business, and court provides guidance on sufficiently concrete claims
The Unified Patent Court’s Paris Central Division has clarified that (a) an adversary has no standing to allege disloyal conduct by someone’s counsel and (b) gives guidance on what makes an injunction request and a damages claim sufficiently concrete.
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Famous patent monetizer Frohwitter’s supercomputer firm files multi-billion-dollar lawsuit over Microsoft’s cloud/AI infrastructure
Susman Godfrey represents supercomputer firm ParTec, run by IPCom founder and former patent litigator Bernhard Frohwitter, in a new cloud computing patent dispute with Microsoft.
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WiLAN subsidiary IPA Technologies obtains $242M verdict against Microsoft over patent related to Apple’s Siri voice assistant
A lawsuit filed in the Delaware in early 2018 against Microsoft over six patents resulted in a verdict over just one of those patents, but amounting to $242 million.