Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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UPC updates: Tesla settles with Broadcom; Dyson close to settling with SharkNinja; observations on December filings
Broadcom and Tesla have apparently settled their patent dispute. Dyson and SharkNinja appear to be close to settling their case. And some observations on UPC filings.
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Nokia reaches milestone of 7K patent families declared essential to 5G standard, plans to play key role in 6G
Nokia announced that it has reached 7,000 patent families declared as essential to the 5G cellular telecommunications standard.
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Netgear settles WiFi 6 standard-essential patent dispute with Huawei, takes license to Sisvel pool between Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court rulings
Netgear and Huawei have filed a motion to stay the U.S: litigation started by the router maker in response to enforcement actions in the UPC and German courts.
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Unprecedented major delay at USITC for remedy recommendation after Lenovo was found to infringe four Ericsson SEPs
While ITC judges typically issue their recommendations on remedy (i.e., U.S. import ban) near-simultaneously with their rulings, it will now potentially take more than two months in an Ericsson-Lenovo SEP case.
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Huawei v. Netgear was only the second UPC anti-antisuit motion this month: a near-simultaneous one may have targeted Xiaomi
The UPC’s Munich LD has now published its December 11, 2024 anti-antisuit injunction in Huawei v. Netgear. It turns out that a similar motion was brought in a different case slightly before Huawei’s filing.
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After almost 5 years of being sued by Broadcom, Netflix files U.S. countersuit over former HP virtualization patents: UPC filings to follow?
Context: In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Broadcom (Avago) started to sue Netflix over video streaming patents (March 14, 2020 Variety article). Para. 20 of the complaint (PDF) alleges that Broadcom’s business of selling “semiconductor chips used in the set top boxes that enable traditional cable television services” was substantially and irreparably harmed…
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Netgear obeys UPC and German anti-antisuit injunctions, yet attempts to thwart Huawei’s patent enforcement through interim license
Netgear has withdrawn its request for a U.S. antisuit injunction against Huawei’s UPC and German cases, but keeps pursuing an interim license.
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UPC responds to first antisuit attack on its jurisdiction with first anti-antisuit injunction against Netgear; Huawei also gets one from Munich I Regional Court
Context: Last week, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Munich Local Division (LD) entered a final judgment, along with a permanent injunction, for Huawei and against Netgear (December 18, 2024 ip fray article). We subsequently explained the UPC’s FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) reasoning (December 18, 2024 ip fray article) and reported on a trial that the Landgericht München…
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In U.S. court filing that sheds light on UPC and German cases, Huawei claims to have been “repeatedly ghosted by Netgear”
A filing made by Huawei with a U.S. court on Friday accuses Netgear of repeatedly “ghosting” the Chinese innovator when it came to discussing licensing terms.
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Xockets’ antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX may fail, but group boycott of patent holders remains overarching concern
Xockets tries to salvage its antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX over an alleged conspiracy not to license or buy its patents that it claims are essential to AI.