Category: Nokia
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Nokia wins second pair of HEVC injunctions against Acer, ASUS in Munich I Regional Court
Nokia is already enforcing an HEVC injunction in Germany against Acer and ASUS. Now it has a second one in place, making it harder for the computer makers to resume their sales in the near term.
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Pendulum swings in Nokia’s favor in Brazilian ASUS preliminary injunction case
Nokia has received a favorable expert report in a Brazilian merits-based preliminary injunction case against ASUS.
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Acer divests U.S. communications patent to NPE amid Nokia, Ericsson litigation
Acer has recently reassigned one of its electronics-related patents to a U.S. non-practising entity, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s assignment records, as the company continues to battle Nokia patent infringement claims and bring its own against Ericsson.
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Nokia pulls a Huawei against Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount: prepared to grant interim license
This now the second interim-license case (actually, a pair of cases) in which a SEP holder turns an implementer-filed UK FRAND action into a boomerang.
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Nokia’s Vice President, IP Policy and Advocacy Head: “global policymakers recognize the importance of standards and that strong protection and enforcement of IPRs drives innovation”
“Open standards and FRAND licensing are the invisible infrastructure on which the digital economy is built,” Nokia’s Vice President and Head of IP Policy & Advocacy, Collette Rawnsley, told ip fray in an exclusive interview. “Without open standards and standard essential patents, there would be no smartphones, no connected devices, no video streaming.”
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Breakthrough for VVC as Google implements video standard in Android 17: pool and bilateral licenses to follow
Google has previously implemented codecs that are not subject to its preferred royalty-free pledge, but only at a stage where it would have been a clear mistake not to do so.
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Munich court calls UK interim-license declarations “flawed in legitimacy”, deems UK courts incompetent to impose global licenses; finds pool rates far below FRAND
A redacted Nokia v. ASUS ruling showcases the application of the Munich court’s FRAND guidelines and takes a clear position on the illegitimacy of UK interim-license declarations.
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UK court prepared to expedite Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount FRAND trials against Nokia to maximum extent — but will it matter?
Mr Justice Meade will take Warner Bros. Discovery’s and Paramount’s FRAND actions against Nokia to trial at the earliest opportunity, hoping to influence outcomes in other courts.
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Munich I Regional Court enjoins computer makers Acer and ASUS over Nokia video patent: UK interim license declaration didn’t help
The Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chambers increasingly often rules from the bench. Acer and ASUS got no value out of their UK interim-license declaration.
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“Limited” UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, “seismic” changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisaco’s annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.