Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Hyundai, Nissan defeat parallel automotive patent infringement complaints in Eastern District of Texas
Judge Rodney Gilstrap has ruled that Longhorn Automotive LLC’s patent infringement complaints against the automakers did not sufficiently meet the burden of proof.
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Samsung to pay $78 million in media ad monitoring patent infringement suit, parallel suit against Roku may be revived
Anonymous Media Holdings, LLC has been granted a motion for partial summary judgment of validity in its case against Samsung.
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Affirmance of Brazilian preliminary injunction dissuaded BYD from 4G holdout, paved way to Avanci license-based settlement
The sequence of events suggests that the denial of BYD’s motion for reconsideration led to a settlement at this point.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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Interview with IP dealmaker Arvin Patel (of Nokia, TiVo, Technicolor fame), who just became managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP
Top-notch IP dealmaker Arvin Patel is now a managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP.
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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
