Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Erich Spangenberg’s soon-to-be-public SIM IP buys patent portfolio worth hundreds of millions in haptics and extended reality (XR)
Context: Two months ago we reported on legendary patent monetizer Erich Spangenberg being back in this business and intrigued by the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opportunity (December 4, 2024 ip fray article). What’s new: His new company, SIM IP, just announced on LinkedIn a definitive agreement to acquire Ultraleap’s haptics and extended reality (XR) patent…
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InterDigital sues Disney (including its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries) in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over multimedia patents
InterDigital. one of the leading standard-essential patent holders, is enforcing its rights against Disney and its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries in the latest streaming patent litigation campaign.
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Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regions
Context: Just a week ago, we raised concerns over Lord Justice Richard Arnold’s decision to expedite Lenovo’s appeal of the denial of an interim license from Ericsson and warned that an exceedingly expansive application of that instrument could provoke a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint by the European Union (January 26, 2025 ip fray article)….
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Nokia may win even two U.S. import bans against Amazon: preliminary ITC ruling
Nokia has prevailed over Amazon on another U.S. patent that could give rise to an import ban.
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Nokia signed patent license agreement with Chinese mobile device maker Transsion (African market leader) â without litigation
Context: It’s been almost a year since Nokia completed its smartphone patent license renewal cycle with respect to the seven largest licensees of cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs) (February 8, 2024 ip fray article). One company that was not previously named as a Nokia licensee is Transsion, a Chinese multi-brand company that is the undisputed volume…
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EU Commission may have to bring WTO complaint against UK: appeals court says Lenovo may get interim license from Ericsson, schedules urgent hearing for February 18
An order by the England & Wales Court of Appeal says Lenovo has “real prospects” of securing a interim license against Ericsson, which could give rise to an EU-UK trade dispute.
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LexisNexis launches 5G SEP owner data cleaning initiative, aims to reduce âsystemic biasâ
The firm has partnered with over 30 of the top 5G patent-holding companies to launch its “Cellular Verified” initiative, which seeks to âcleanâ an increasingly self-declared and âinherently inconsistentâ ETSI database.
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Patrik HammarĂ©n to lead Nokia Technologies into the future: appointed president (and now not just “acting”)
Nokia just announced “the appointment of Patrik HammarĂ©n â whom we interviewed two months ago after he became Acting President (November 13, 2024 ip fray article) â as President of Nokia Technologies and member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team, effective 22 January 2025.” Nokia Technologies is the division in charge of the group’s patent…
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New UPC decision shows Big Tech can’t always switch language of proceedings to English: ParTec v. Nvidia will be key precedent if upheld on appeal
Context: Many Unified Patent Court (UPC) litigators were profoundly concerned when the Court of Appeal (CoA) overturned two parallel decisions to maintain German as the language of proceedings for licensing firm Ona Patents’ infringement actions against Apple and Google (item 4 of this September 25, 2024 ip fray article). While ip fray was not prepared…
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Amazon’s ploy to derail ITC proceedings, and update on Amazon’s and Lenovo’s efforts to overturn or narrow Nokia’s and Ericsson’s preliminary wins
The ITC has finalized its decision in one Ericsson-Lenovo case while it has not decided on the exact scope of its review in another. Amazon is hoping to overturn or narrow Nokia’s win.