Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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First U.S. SEP injunction since 2007 now unlikely: Wilus v. Askey & Samsung pretrial conference gets canceled on short notice
On Tuesday, Judge Gilstrap first modified the time of a Wilus v. Askey & Samsung pretrial conference, and later in the day canceled it altogether. Some interesting motions are now unlikely ever to be adjudicated.
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FedEx can fight another day in Qualcomm dispute, as Federal Circuit considers IPR real-parties-in-interest
The USPTO withdrew its initial defense of the PTAB’s refusal of FedEx’s arguments around real parties in interest.
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BREAKING: Huawei has 5G patent license deal with Tesla — inadvertent disclosure by InterDigital counsel at UK Supreme Court hearing
InterDigital’s barrister has just uniquely identified the previously unknown Avanci 5G licensor who has a direct license deal in place with Tesla as “the single biggest licensor”.
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BREAKING: Hikvision assigns patents to Longhorn IP entity in portfolio monetization play
It appears to be the Chinese company’s first divestiture of U.S. and European patents to an NPE.
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LG TV case: Federal Circuit OKs mix of standard-related and standard-unrelated infringement theories for same patent claims
“Mixed” patent claims will be at issue sooner or later outside of the U.S., too.
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SEP holders can deprive Tesla’s pursuit of judicial FRAND rate-setting for patent pools of any basis if they want
Tesla’s pursuit of a UK judicial determination on the FRAND rate for a patent pool hangs by a thread: it depends on SEP holders’ positions in licensing and litigation.
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Google petitions U.S. Supreme Court over Patent Trial & Appeal Board “settled expectations” denials
Google’s petition is likely to attract amicus briefs from other companies that are finding it increasingly difficult to get inter partes reviews instituted.
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Google’s PTAB barrage against K.Mizra draws hold-out accusation in latest filing
K.Mizra urged the PTAB to discretionarily deny Google’s IPR petition on a patent, arguing the tech giant is multiplying proceedings to harass a smaller licensing firm.
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Will UK Supreme Court go from Unwired to Unhinged? Radical judicial imperialists form majority of panel in Tesla v. InterDigital & Avanci
The deck appears stacked against reasonableness, but hopefully the outcome will be better than the historic positions of the panel majority suggest. Otherwise the UK will come under a lot more pressure than it can sustain.