Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Samsung and Pictiva settle OLED patent dispute that saw $191M Texas jury verdict followed by PTAB invalidation
The two parties have jointly moved to dismiss litigation in the Eastern District of Texas.
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Qualcomm, Arm each claim victory in architecture licensing standoff; jury awards $2 damages
The two chipmakers have been engaged in a long-running contractual dispute over use of Arm’s processor architecture IP.
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InterDigital, Parks Associates claim HDR is becoming a baseline video feature: report lands amid Disney+ feature removals
InterDigital and market research firm Parks Associates have claimed that HDR is heading toward baseline status. But Disney is betting on consumers being more attached to content than picture quality.
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MIT enforces cloud and IoT chip security patents against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft in U.S.
The asserted quasi-SEPs relate to physical unclonable function (PUF) technology, which has important applications in authentication and cryptography.
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SK hynix sues Longhorn IP again, alleging repeated patent demands through affiliates
SK hynix has taken Longhorn IP back to court, challenging infringement allegations over eight former TSMC patents and accusing the licensing company of using a new affiliate to pursue additional licensing demands despite earlier agreements.
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Disney hit with Delaware complaint from ETRI over video coding SEPs
ETRI claims that Disney was repeatedly contacted by Access Advance to take a (F)RAND license to the VDP pool, which would cover the asserted patents.
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OPPO, Nidec have taken Qi Wireless Power patent pool license, Via announces during AI licensing-focused Summit
During its annual Bridge Summit in San Francisco today, which will largely focus on opportunities and strategies in AI patent licensing, Via Licensing Alliance announced Japan’s Nidec Mobility Corporation and China’s OPPO – already a licensor – have both taken a license in Via’s Qi Wireless Power patent pool.
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BlackBerry acquires Google patents, reports “stronger than expected” licensing revenue
BlackBerry also reported that it received patents as part of a customer contract, though it isn’t clear if that customer could’ve been Google.
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ZTE assigns over a hundred more patents to U.S. PAE as Verizon files counterclaim in mobile networking suit
Earlier this year, PAE Eight Deer Ventures asserted patents previously owned by ZTE against Verizon and AT&T in U.S. district court.