Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Nokia signs patent licensing agreement with fifth Chinese automaker
The new deal reflects the increased respect shown by Chinese automakers for Nokia’s intellectual property rights, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, said in a blog post today.
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Latest Patently rankings: Huawei leads in cellular and WiFi 6; LG overtakes Samsung in 5G; Qualcomm #2 in cellular, #4 in WiFi 6; Ericsson, Nokia remain strong
Patent data and analytics service Patently just released its updated cellular rankings and its new WiFi 5 and 6 rankings.
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Google not off the hook after UPC Dusseldorf LD ruling that it doesn’t infringe Ona Patents’ patent: indirect infringement is explicitly not ruled out
Google Pixel phones on their own have been cleared of infringement, but the combination of Google Pixel phones with accessories such as earphones and watches may infringe indirectly.
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Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP strikes trade secret litigation financing deal with Tangibly
The partnership will transform trade secret enforcement from a “reactive burden into a proactive advantage”, Mr. Spangenberg said today.
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Nokia inks three new multimedia patent licensing agreements, including with social media platform Snapchat
The deals mark Nokia’s first video streaming deals with social messaging companies, Tejas Shah, Nokia’s newly appointed Chief Licensing Officer for New Segments, said in a blog post today.
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Munich Regional Court Judge Dr. Schoen on incoming new judge, cross-border injunctions, FRAND calculations in Wilus v. ASUS
The incoming Presiding Judge over the 21st Civil Chamber, who will replace Judge Dr. Georg Werner, has been chosen and has a “patent-positive approach”, Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber told attendees of the 12th annual IP and Competition Forum in Oxford today.
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U.S. judge denies Microsoft motion to postpone ParTec patent trial involving OpenAI supercomputer: showdown in Texas in June, ParTec v. NVIDIA in UPC in February
German supercomputer company ParTec sued Microsoft in the Eastern District of Texas in a first step, and NVIDIA in the Unified Patent Court a little later.
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Acer sues AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon in Eastern District of Texas
The smartphone manufacturer has taken a similar approach to fellow mobile phone maker ASUS, targeting the companies’ cellular base stations, some of which are equipped by Nokia, but most of which are supplied by Ericsson.
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OPPO’s partnership with Access Advance becomes even more multi-faceted as it takes VVC license, gets MCBA benefits, but for now reserves all VVC enforcement rights
OPPO is asserting a VVC patent against ASUS in China and not (for now) a licensor of VVC Advance.
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Warner Bros. Discovery “pulls a Samsung” against Nokia with U.S. FRAND/antitrust claims after similar ones in other venues; also argues exhaustion by Apple, Amazon licenses
in the midst of a major merger battle, Warner Bros. Discovery is pursuing FRAND matters in at least three different venues now.