Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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NEC wins Brazilian preliminary injunction against HMD based on expert report: HMD could settle through Via pool license
HMD has previously been sued in Brazil by VoiceAge EVS. Now it also has to comply with an injunction obtained by NEC.
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Onesta settling with Qualcomm, but keeping up pressure on its customer BMW with Munich lawsuits over U.S. patents: new filings
BMW argues that Onesta’s patent infringement allegations relate to Qualcomm chips. A patent agreement between Onesta and Qualcomm is imminent, but will it benefit BMW?
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First trillion-dollar “patent troll”: Broadcom is more profitable and several times more valuable than anyone with an active assertion program ever was
Broadcom is several times larger than Microsoft and IBM were when they operated active patent licensing and enforcement programs. And it’s sucking oygen out of Europe.
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Hisense in trouble in Brazil as court imposes sanctions for litigation misconduct despite settlement through Access Advance pool license
The Rio de Janeiro State Court decided to pursue sanctions against Hisense regardless of a settlement after which JVC no longer asked for them.
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UPC orders Amazon, InterDigital to comment on this week’s UK antisuit hearing; witnesses may be sworn in, penalties could follow
The Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division makes it clear that the InterDigital v. Amazon injunction protecting its own proceedings covers not only an interim license, but also a post-trial decision.
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TSMC patent filing strategy: general decline, āall-inā on U.S., ātoken presenceā in Germany
Data exported from Patsnap reveals that Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC has filed more than half of its patents in the U.S. over the past two decades, while filing barely any in Europe, and gradually less and less in China and South Korea.
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SIM IP, Garden Intel merge: form $150 million IP monetization platform
The companies are building a ādefensive moatā around the financialization of innovation that manual operators cannot penetrate, Gardenās CEO said about the deal.
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Lenovo settles long-running U.S. USB-C patent infringement dispute
Lenovo and IT and cloud communications firm Universal Connectivity Technologies have settled a three-year patent infringement dispute that spanned the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and the United States Patent and Trademark Officeās Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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BREAKING: Munich court bans Renault’s sales of Clio, MĆ©gane cars over Broadcom Ethernet SEP: final demand was within FRAND range; recall and destruction
The next SEP injunction from Munich is about wired (not wireless) communications.
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Amazon no longer defends cloud customers against video patent infringement claims, arguing it would otherwise have to raise prices
The world’s largest cloud provider offers various multimedia-specific services to its customers. It blames its new liability disclaimer on video patent holders’ royalty demands.