Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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ITC judge recommends U.S. import ban on Amazon streaming devices due to violation of 4 out of 5 Nokia multimedia patents
Between Ericsson’s win over Lenovo and now Nokia’s over Amazon, U.S. trade judges have deemed 8 standard-essential patents valid and infringed this week.
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Via LA licensors suing Microsoft in Germany and/or UPC over HEVC video codec patents
Context: This fall, HP and TCL took HEVC (H.265) patent pool licenses from Access Advance (October 30, 2024 ip fray article), thereby settling several patent infringement cases. Those companies had previously taken licenses from MPEG LA, which got acquired by Via Licensing last year to form Via LA (May 2, 2023 Via LA press release)….
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Netgear running out of time against Huawei as next injunction could come down on January 9, patent exhaustion won’t move needle
Netgear faces the risk of another WiFi 6 SEP injunction coming down on January 9, and the exhaustion-based carve-out from the December 18 UPC injunction may be useless.
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Huawei wins Unified Patent Court injunction against Netgear over WiFi 6 in most important UPC SEP ruling to date
The Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division has granted Huawei a multi-country injunction against Netgear over a WiFi 6 standard-essential patent.
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USITC judge sides with Ericsson on 4 out of 4 standard-essential patents, throws out Lenovo’s other defenses: U.S. import ban looms large
Lenovo has suffered a crushing preliminary defeat in the U.S. International Trade Commission as all four Ericsson standard-essential patents at the heart of the investigation have been held valid and infringed.
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Nokia’s Chinese licensing success story continues as wireless innovator announces patent license agreement with second Chinese car maker
Nokia has announced that a second unnamed automaker from China has taken a bilateral license to its cellular standard-essential patents.
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Via LA launches new voice codec pool: Dolby, ETRI, Huawei, JVCKenwood and NTT already on board
Huawei has also taken a license from Via LA’s new pool, which covers voice technologies such as EVS and IVAS.
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First antisuit injunction attack on UPC: Netgear asks U.S. district court for ASI against or interim license from Huawei; fears AASI
In the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Netgear has filed a motoion for an antisuit injunction or, as a fallback, interim license against Huawei.
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Erich Spangenberg is back in the patent monetization business — and intrigued by the UPC opportunity
One of the most well-known patent monetizers considers the Unified Patent Court a tremendous opportunity for right holders.