Category: Nokia
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ASUS may have violated stipulation not to use same prior art against Nokia in parallel PTAB and ITC proceedings: Director review
USPTO Director Squires wants to avoid “second bite at the apple” situations, and ASUS’s conduct has given rise to concern.
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Huawei takes top spot among Brazil’s foreign patent filers in 2025
InterDigital, Nokia, and OPPO were also among the top 50 nonresident applicants.
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BREAKING: Nokia and Geely settled cellular SEP dispute; unknown if pool or bilateral license
A trial (with the possibility of a subsequent bench ruling) was scheduled for today, but canceled on short notice.
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SEP holders now have four ways of avoiding UK interim licenses; Acer, ASUS defeat pokes hole in their (F)RAND defenses in Nokia ITC case
Chinese SEP holders may even have a fifth way of avoiding UK FRAND jurisdiction. Meanwhile, for Acer and ASUS, the recent UK appellate ruling complicates everything in their disputes with Nokia.
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Munich appeals court lifts injunction against Deutsche Telekom fixed-line offering, clarifies approach to heterogeneous instrumentalities
The patent holder accused specific Deutsche Telekom offerings of infringement and differentiated between the network infrastructure products powering them. But the injunction was not tailored to particular setups, which would have left certain questions to the enforcement proceedings.
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UK appeals court permanently stays Acer, ASUS FRAND cases against Nokia: arbitration acceptable; no more FRAND trial
The Court of Appeal of England & Wales has largely overruled a decision by the High Court of Justice and stayed the proceedings. The two computer makers overplayed their hand.
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English appeals court presses Acer, ASUS on refusal to arbitrate Nokia licensing terms; UPC’s PMAC mentioned as one option
Computer makers Acer and ASUS have a credibility problem with respect to their willingness to take a FRAND license. Nokia’s only problem is the state of English SEP case law.
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BREAKING: UPC Mannheim LD grants Nokia anti-antisuit injunction against automaker Geely’s Chinese interim-license request; UPDATE: same in Munich court
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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Sisvel announces new 2G-5G SEP pool for point-of-sale terminals with Huawei, Nokia, LG as founding licensors: another IoT category
The three founding licensors hold many cellular SEPs. Nokia had already made significant headway with bilateral licensing in this vertical.
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Nokia announces three new IoT patent licensing agreements, including with ADT – without litigation
Nokia has today announced that it has successfully licensed three leading residential security systems providers, including ADT, through its IoT licensing program – all of which were negotiated litigation-free.