Category: Nokia
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Nokia fends off lawsuit in Eastern District of Texas targeting its network infrastructure: three patents not infringed
Nokia has an active patent licensing program and has to enforce if license agreements cannot be concluded otherwise, but also finds itself on the receiving end of patent assertions.
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IP leader Jenni Lukander leaving Nokia, Patrik Hammarén taking over on interim basis
Nokia Technologies President (and, therefore, effectively also Chief IP Officer) Jenni Lukander is leaving the company. Patrik Hammarén, Chief Licensing Officer Wireless, is taking over an interim basis.
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Nokia scores another “Chinese first”: payment terminal maker PAX takes wireless patent license
Nokia’s IP business is on a roll. After Thursday’s standard-essential patent injunction against Amazon, the Finnish company today announced its first license deal with a Chinese maker of payment terminals.
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Two FRAND firsts for the UPC: first SEP settlement (Nokia-Verifone), first FRAND appellate hearing (OPPO-Panasonic)
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.
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Amazon countersues Nokia, asserting AWS patents against CloudBand in Delaware
Amazon is countersuing Nokia, asserting cloud computing patents against Nokia’s CloudBand offering. Nokia previously sued Amazon over video codec patents.
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Continental withdraws Delaware lawsuit against Nokia over SEP licensing in auto industry: another one bites the dust
Nokia’s second-quarter report reveals that Continental has withdrawn its U.S. litigation over automotive patent licensing terms and practices.
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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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$847 million patent verdict against Verizon; Ericsson on extended receiving end of $583M part, fighting patent at PTAB jointly with Nokia
Context: Hardly a month passes without a non-practicing entity (NPE) obtaining a patent damages verdict in the hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. district court (May 11, 2024 ip fray article). What’s new: On Friday (June 28, 2024), a jury in the Eastern District of Texas awarded NPE General Access Solutions $847 million over…
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UPC CoA order clarifies: arguments for stay are stricken if made only at interim conference; and reveals request for ECJ referral
A patent holder suing Nokia has defended its patent in the Federal Patent Court of Germany, believes to be close to affirmance of that decision by the Federal Court of Justice and now doesn’t want the UPC to rule on a revocation claim.
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Federal Circuit revives patent case against Nokia, Cisco, Adva: assignment clause under employment contract deemed ambiguous
The majority of a Federal Circuit panel took a rather inventor-friendly position on an assignment clause in an employment agreement.