Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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New Munich FRAND guidelines contemplate range from €0.49 to €1.05 per streaming service subscriber as monthly aggregate royalty burden
The Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber’s FRAND guidelines discuss reasonable SEP royalty burdens for standard and premium subscriptions to streaming services.
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German Federal Patent Court leans toward invalidating Malikie patent asserted against Xiaomi in Munich
Germany’s Federal Patent Court has signaled it will likely invalidate a Malikie patent Xiaomi is fighting in a Munich infringement case, though the opinion is preliminary and non-binding.
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As ink dries on $898M Samsung settlement, Netlist goes after Micron, HPE, Lenovo at ITC, district court
As part of their settlement, Samsung agreed to provide Netlist with information that could assist it in future ITC proceedings against third parties.
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‘Markets pay a premium for the smooth line and discount the steps’: tracking patent licensing revenue
In a quarterly report, Jim Harlan, founder of The Standard Strategy (and formerly at InterDigital), tracks a 10-company basket of IP-licensing-centric businesses. His latest report notes that a decline in patent licensing value does not reflect the value itself, but rather the way markets price the “lumpy” shape of licensing revenue.
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Rio court confirms Via pool offer can satisfy FRAND without bilateral negotiations
A Rio court has held that NEC’s Via LA pool offer was sufficient to satisfy FRAND without a separate bilateral offer to HMD, while finding HMD’s failure to substantively engage with the pool terms indicative of hold-out.
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UPC Hague LD revokes Maxell casting patent, finds aggregation of routine features obvious
The UPC Hague LD revoked Maxell’s casting patent after finding the granted claims not novel and its auxiliary requests obvious. The court held that aggregating routine features without functional interdependence or synergistic effect cannot establish inventive step, and dismissed Maxell’s infringement action.
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Dolby acquires hundreds of VVC standard-essential patents from Florida Atlantic University and OP Solutions
Some of the assigned patents were already available to license through the VVC Advance pool operated by Access Advance.
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Amazon, Oracle targeted in next Headwater patent enforcement campaign
Headwater LLC has enforced three of its mobile network technology-related patents against Amazon and Oracle’s cloud-computing businesses in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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‘I am a latecomer’: former Xiaomi IP head Ran Xu on launching his own IP consultancy
Ran Xu talks to ip fray about where the idea to launch his consultancy, Rythan IP, came from, and why now was the ideal time to take the plunge.
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Brazilian court-appointed expert finds Disney’s HEVC encoders infringe IBEX patent but rules it non-essential, sidesteps FRAND question
A Rio de Janeiro court expert concluded Disney’s encoders infringe an IBEX video patent tied to Access Advance’s VDP campaign, but found the patent covers encoding rather than decoding, so it falls outside HEVC’s essential patent scope and, with it, any FRAND fight.