Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Unified Patent Court makes first standard-essential patent decision: Mannheim LD orders production of license agreements
The UPC’s Mannheim Local Division has entered an order favoring transparency in connection with standard-essential patent license agreements in SEP disputes.
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NPE sues Samsung over wireless patents co-developed by Ericsson and Toshiba; represented by Susman Godfrey
Litigation powerhouse Susman Godfrey represents a licensing firm named Four Batons Wireless that is asserting former Toshiba patents, co-developed with an Ericsson affiliate, against Samsung in the Eastern District of Texas.
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OPPO releases white paper on IP touting innovative strength (among top 10 PCT patent filers), advocates balanced policy
Chinese smartphone maker OPPO released an IP white paper on World Intellectual Property Day highlighting the company’s innovative capacity and promoting balanced IP policies.
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Patent licensing firm’s lawsuits against Apple, Google in UPC, Munich make strange bedfellows among outside counsel
The fiercest rivalry in German patent litigation history results in an apparently unprecedented joint defense alliance.
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Retrial verdict more than doubles damages award to G+ Communications against Samsung over two 5G SEPs: $142M
A jury in the Eastern District of Texas has more than doubled the damages amount originally awarded to G+ Communications in a 5G standard-essential patent case against Samsung to $142 million.
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AVM takes license to Huawei’s WiFi 6 standard-essential patents: German WiFi router market leader settles litigation
The leader of the German WiFi router market (70% market share), AVM, has taken a license to Huawei’s WiFi 6 standard-essential patents, ending infringement litigation between the two companies.
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Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optional
Huawei and EDMI announced a license agreement today that relates to narrowband IoT standards. EDMI could have licensed the related Huawei patents through a Sisvel pool, but opted for a bilateral agreement, which demonstrates the optionality of patent pools.
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Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictions
Emboldened by a recent vote in the European Parliament and other developments, those advocating the interests of implementers of standard-essential patents are vocal. And not every problem they claim to have identified actually exists.
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Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. Lava
The Delhi High Court has handed down its ruling in a long-running standard-essential patent dispute between Ericsson and Lava, exposing an extreme case of hold-out behavior.
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Qualcomm publishes cellular IoT SEP royalties based on module price but also available to device makers
Qualcomm has licensed module makers for more than a decade and is now also offering a direct license to device makers whose module suppliers do not have a license.