Category: Nokia
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Nokia wins first-ever Germany-wide patent injunction against Amazon Prime Video streaming service after three wins over Amazon devices
Context: Nokia has already won three patent rulings relating to Amazon streaming devices like the Fire TV Stick. A Germany-wide permanent injunction that the Munich I Regional Court ordered last year (September 20, 2024 ip fray article) has been enforced for a few months now. Shortly before the end of the year, Administrative Law Judge…
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“Good leadership is like conducting an orchestra”: LESI president and TactoTek general counsel, IP licensing head Sonja London
“To make a symphony, people must be playing together, even if each team is playing their own melody – and the best outcome happens when everyone is contributing according to the notes,” Mrs. London told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regions
Context: Just a week ago, we raised concerns over Lord Justice Richard Arnold’s decision to expedite Lenovo’s appeal of the denial of an interim license from Ericsson and warned that an exceedingly expansive application of that instrument could provoke a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by the European Union (January 26, 2025 ip fray article)….
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Nokia may win even two U.S. import bans against Amazon: preliminary ITC ruling
Nokia has prevailed over Amazon on another U.S. patent that could give rise to an import ban.
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Nokia signed patent license agreement with Chinese mobile device maker Transsion (African market leader) — without litigation
Context: It’s been almost a year since Nokia completed its smartphone patent license renewal cycle with respect to the seven largest licensees of cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs) (February 8, 2024 ip fray article). One company that was not previously named as a Nokia licensee is Transsion, a Chinese multi-brand company that is the undisputed volume…
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Patrik Hammarén to lead Nokia Technologies into the future: appointed president (and now not just “acting”)
Nokia just announced “the appointment of Patrik Hammarén — whom we interviewed two months ago after he became Acting President (November 13, 2024 ip fray article) — as President of Nokia Technologies and member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team, effective 22 January 2025.” Nokia Technologies is the division in charge of the group’s patent…
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Amazon’s ploy to derail ITC proceedings, and update on Amazon’s and Lenovo’s efforts to overturn or narrow Nokia’s and Ericsson’s preliminary wins
The ITC has finalized its decision in one Ericsson-Lenovo case while it has not decided on the exact scope of its review in another. Amazon is hoping to overturn or narrow Nokia’s win.
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Europe has “one foot in the morgue”: Nokia and Ericsson to hold EU innovation summit today, call on withdrawal of “harmful” SEP regulation
The event marks the first time Nokia and Ericsson have come together to organize and drive an initiative like this, which will highlight how Europe’s tech sector has “one foot in the morgue”, lagging those of China and the U.S., as well as how reforms such as the 5G Security Toolbox are “critical” for economic…
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Nokia strikes another patent license deal (renewal) with Samsung: first 5G, now video technologies implemented in TVs
Two years after a 5G patent license agreement, Nokia has now also licensed its video codec patents to Samsung for its TVs.
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Three attempts to use U.S. courts against German (or UPC) patent enforcement actions have failed in recent years: disproven recipe?
It has been tried three times over the past couple of years to leverage U.S. district courts against German courts or the UPC, and it produced nothing but costs.