Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Here’s what’s REALLY going on in the ZTE-Samsung dispute: why a Samsung case is dead in the water and what hurdles ZTE must overcome today
The ZTE-Samsung licensing dispute draws a lot of interest. Other publications have recently reported, but here we have additional information for you on the UPC Mannheim LD part of the dispute (partly free, partly premium).
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UPC Dusseldorf LD finds Beko and Arçelik’s slowness to declare willingness — but not absence of Dolby pledge —dispositive of FRAND defense
FRAND case law keeps evolving at the UPC as different cases present different fact patterns.
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HMD files complaint accusing Federal Court of Justice of Germany of violating constitutional rights in ongoing VoiceAge EVS case
In a constitutional complaint filed in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, HMD has alleged that the Federal Court of Justice of Germany’s refusal to refer “essential questions” of EU law to the European Court of Justice constitutes a “violation of its constitutional right to the lawful judge”.
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First U.S. patent long-arm assertions in German court withdrawn with prejudice as Onesta settles with Qualcomm; separately, NVIDIA settled
The realistic best-case scenario for BMW materialized with respect to costs. But the overall course of events will not completely discourage others from pulling an Onesta.
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Apple settles wide-angle camera patent infringement dispute in District of Delaware after successfully invoking “single-means” doctrine
Apple has settled two parallel actions brought by Canada’s Immervision over the alleged infringement of the latter’s wide-angle camera-related patents, bringing the companies’ five-year dispute to an end.
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OPPO wins German 5G case against ASUS; first such win for OPPO, ASUS’s third Munich defeat in as many months
This is OPPO’s first 5G patent injunction, and the history of the dispute is that ASUS attacked first (directly and via non-practicing entity Innovative Sonic).
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Pendulum swings in Nokia’s favor in Brazilian ASUS preliminary injunction case
Nokia has received a favorable expert report in a Brazilian merits-based preliminary injunction case against ASUS.
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Appeals court postpones decision on stay of Broadcom’s German injunction against Renault to April 23; UPC raises concerns over parallel challenges
This is a particularly high-profile German SEP case, and the first SEP injunction against an automaker in Germany in almost four years.
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UPC’s Munich LD clears chipset makers Qualcomm and NVIDIA of infringement: appeals very likely
Today the Munich Local Division’s second panel found no infringement in cases targeting Qualcomm and NVIDIA chipsets.