Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Huawei reports 165K active granted patents, 260 license agreements; spends $28B/year on R&D (last decade: $200B); 54% of workforce is in R&D
Huawei’s 2025 annual report is out and it shows the company’s relentless focus on R&D.
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Nokia announces three new IoT patent licensing agreements, including with ADT – without litigation
Nokia has today announced that it has successfully licensed three leading residential security systems providers, including ADT, through its IoT licensing program – all of which were negotiated litigation-free.
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A closer look at Transsion’s SEP situation: the world’s fourth-largest smartphone maker is stirring Chinese market
Transsion is dominating African and Southeast Asian markets and is now embroiled in several major disputes with SEP licensing giants. Last week, it filed its first-ever publicly-known patent infringement complaint in response to a major campaign initiated by Ericsson.
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Eeva Hakoranta, former InterDigital Chief Licensing Officer: ‘Focus on the impact and great things will follow’
The former InterDigital Chief Licensing Officer spoke to ip fray on the sidelines of Via Licensing Alliance’s Business Summit about why she stepped down from her role, where she is headed next, and some of the obstacles she has had to overcome as a woman in IP.
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Brazilian court lets Acer FRAND case proceed against Nokia, orders expert-led licensing review
Judge Gustavo Cesar Mazutti of the 2nd Business and Arbitration Court in São Paulo issued a combined decision denying Nokia’s motion to dismiss and setting out the procedural framework for the case going forward.
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ASUS affiliate Innovative Sonic wins 5G SEP injunction against OPPO and OnePlus in Munich
Two weeks after OPPO prevailed for the first time on a 5G patent assertion against ASUS, the latter’s affiliate Innovative Sonic strikes back with a 5G injunction.
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Munich court enjoins Deutsche Telekom’s high-speed fixed-line offering, lets Broadcom, Nokia, Huawei (but not Adtran) off the hook
In a differentiated reasoning, the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber explained in open court that only Deutsche Telekom’s use of Adtran products, but not that of Huawei and Nokia products, infringed the patent-in-suit.
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Nokia wins second pair of HEVC injunctions against Acer, ASUS in Munich I Regional Court
Nokia is already enforcing an HEVC injunction in Germany against Acer and ASUS. Now it has a second one in place, making it harder for the computer makers to resume their sales in the near term.
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BREAKING: Transsion escalates Ericsson patent litigation in UPC, files its first-ever public patent infringement complaint
Transsion has sued Ericsson in the Unified Patent Court’s Lisbon Local Division over the infringement of one of its patents, marking its first-ever publicly-known patent infringement complaint.
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ZTE makes standard-essential patent HISTORY as first-ever defendant to prevail on FRAND defense in Munich (against Samsung)
This is even more historic than ZTE’s appellate victory (also over Samsung) in the UK regarding an interim-license declaration.