Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Federal Circuit says owners of patents subject to exclusive license still have standing to sue where terms don’t render rights “illusory”
A.L.M. and Ergon granted wide-ranging rights to an exclusive licensee – but retained the right to sue third-party infringers.
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SIM IP acquires Alibaba video coding patents despite LOT Network membership
SIM IP has acquired 126 patent assets from Alibaba covering video coding and data infrastructure technologies tied to AV1, AV2, and VCM.
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ASUS settles global patent litigation with Wilus, Huawei, Philips: takes Sisvel Wi-Fi Multimode pool license
ASUS has become the latest licensee to sign up to Sisvel’s Wi-Fi Multimode standard-essential patent program, days before a potential bench ruling from the Munich I Regional Court in an SEP dispute with Sisvel licensor Philips.
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Malikie Innovations sues TCL over Wi-Fi, AV1 patents in Eastern District of Texas, hints at future request for injunction
Malikie Innovations claims that TCL has not acted in “good faith” when it comes to FRAND negotiations.
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TCL China Star Optoelectronics acquires Japan Display patents
Japan Display is diversifying into the sensor and semiconductor packaging markets, and is divesting thousands of non-core patents as part of the process.
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Delhi High Court overturns Philips’ DVD SEP win, finds ‘insufficient evidence’ of essentiality or infringement, narrows royalty base
The Delhi High Court appellate bench has reversed Philips’s landmark DVD SEP win, finding no proof of essentiality, infringement, or FRAND rates. The exhaustion defense saves the defendant.
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LG Electronics sued in Eastern District of Texas by Fortress-linked NPE wielding former TCL China Star Optoelectronics patents
It appears to be the first time that China Star Optoelectronics has divested patents to an NPE that have subsequently been asserted.
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SEP strategies: Disney demonstrates why (F)RAND does not and cannot work for video streamers the way it does for display devices
For a long time, SEP enforcement against video streamers was pretty much non-existent. Now that there is a first major wave of such lawsuits and various injunctions have come down, fundamental enforcement-related differences become clear.
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SEP holders now have four ways of avoiding UK interim licenses; Acer, ASUS defeat pokes hole in their (F)RAND defenses in Nokia ITC case
Chinese SEP holders may even have a fifth way of avoiding UK FRAND jurisdiction. Meanwhile, for Acer and ASUS, the recent UK appellate ruling complicates everything in their disputes with Nokia.