Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Munich I Regional Court enjoins computer makers Acer and ASUS over Nokia video patent: UK interim license declaration didn’t help
The Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chambers increasingly often rules from the bench. Acer and ASUS got no value out of their UK interim-license declaration.
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Access Advance reports 100% HEVC patent agreement renewal rate: Google among licensees that opted to extend
Access Advance renewed 100% of its licensing agreements with current licensees of its HEVC pool – over 120 of them – including with major tech players such as Google and Huawei, and has renamed the HEVC/VVC patent pool it acquired from Via Licensing Alliance to VCL Advance.
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“Limited” UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, “seismic” changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisaco’s annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.
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Japan’s influential Judge Nakashima defines Munich-inspired FRAND guidelines, but there is potential for further interjurisdictional friction
After a recent settlement in Pantech v. Google, Judge Motoyuki Nakashima of the Tokyo District Court has provided general FRAND guidance.
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Apple gets sued in Unified Patent Court by EyesMatch, facing potential injunction in approx. 10 European countries; EyesMatch settled with Microsoft, Samsung; also suing NVIDIA now
After settling with Ona Patents (backed by Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP) and Headwater, Apple is now being sued by EyesMatch, which peviously struck settlements with Microsoft and Samsung.
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LG Electronics strikes joint WiFi, video codec patent licensing deal with InterDigital, Sony
The agreement licenses LG’s digital TVs and computer display monitors under InterDigital´s joint licensing program with Sony and includes licenses to technologies such as ATSC 3.0, Wi-Fi, and video codecs.
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Transsion faces fresh litigation in India: LG Electronics files wireless communications patents infringement action in Delhi High Court
The court, which first heard the case in November, will hear the parties’ arguments over pro-tem measures on February 3, 2026.
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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.