Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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UK-UPC relations enter into Cold War phase or worse with new court order accusing UPC of unfairness while reflecting UK’s Soviet negotiation style
“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable” is how JFK described Soviet negotiation tactics during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. It is unfortunate that a new UK court order makes mockery of the UPC’s peace proposal.
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Wilus argues Samsung, Askey not entitled to FRAND terms after years of hold-out; attacks Samsung’s “surreptitious” circumvention of page limits
Against ASUS subsidiary and router maker Askey, Wilus is seeking the first U.S. SEP injunction since 2007. Now it is seeking other pretrial decisions against Askey and Samsung.
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UK court joins UPC Mannheim in Amazon-Interdigital de-escalation pending appeal — but UK-UPC peace is fragile given what was said today
All eyes are now on the UPC CoA, but the UK court would actually like InterDigital to concede the appeal.
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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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Dolby attacks six InterDigital patents in U.S. court to protect its customers Amazon, Disney, TCL, Hisense
Dolby has recently filed a petition for inter partes review against an InterDigital patent, but is now going against five more patents.
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Google sued in Unified Patent Court by NPE Eyesmatch
NPE Eyesmatch has sued Google in the Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division over the alleged infringement of a patent closely related to another it previously enforced against Apple, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Microsoft.
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Avanci launches WiFi 6 Vehicle licensing program: Mercedes-Benz is first licensee
Avanci has launched an SEP licensing platform covering WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 standards, with the first program (Avanci WiFi 6 Vehicle) already up and running with 10 licensors on board, including Atlas Global, BlackBerry, Canon, ISG, KPN, Malikie Innovations, Meizu Technology, NEC Corporation, NTT, and OPPO.
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Philips becomes first UPC litigant to win AND fend off permanent injunctions, and first to achieve AND prevent revocation
The Hague LD declared an Advanced Brain Monitoring patent invalid and therefore dismissed the infringement case against Philips.
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USPTO, DOJ file 3rd joint pro-injunction brief since June in standards-RELATED but NOT undisputedly standard-ESSENTIAL patent case: next stop Wilus v. Askey?
Patent holder Collision said that its patents-in-suit were not standard-essential and Samsung did not raise a FRAND defense, but Collision later made infringement arguments that were standards-related.
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UPC panel warns requesting expedited UK FRAND trials may trigger sanctions: part II of InterDigital v. Amazon coverage
This is a follow-up to our previous report on a highly instructive UPC hearing in Mannheim.