Category: Licensors and/or Licensees
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Huawei v. Netgear was only the second UPC anti-antisuit motion this month: a near-simultaneous one may have targeted Xiaomi
The UPC’s Munich LD has now published its December 11, 2024 anti-antisuit injunction in Huawei v. Netgear. It turns out that a similar motion was brought in a different case slightly before Huawei’s filing.
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After almost 5 years of being sued by Broadcom, Netflix files U.S. countersuit over former HP virtualization patents: UPC filings to follow?
Context: In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, Broadcom (Avago) started to sue Netflix over video streaming patents (March 14, 2020 Variety article). Para. 20 of the complaint (PDF) alleges that Broadcom’s business of selling “semiconductor chips used in the set top boxes that enable traditional cable television services” was substantially and irreparably harmed…
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Netgear obeys UPC and German anti-antisuit injunctions, yet attempts to thwart Huawei’s patent enforcement through interim license
Netgear has withdrawn its request for a U.S. antisuit injunction against Huawei’s UPC and German cases, but keeps pursuing an interim license.
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UPC responds to first antisuit attack on its jurisdiction with first anti-antisuit injunction against Netgear; Huawei also gets one from Munich I Regional Court
Context: Last week, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Munich Local Division (LD) entered a final judgment, along with a permanent injunction, for Huawei and against Netgear (December 18, 2024 ip fray article). We subsequently explained the UPC’s FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) reasoning (December 18, 2024 ip fray article) and reported on a trial that the Landgericht München…
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In U.S. court filing that sheds light on UPC and German cases, Huawei claims to have been “repeatedly ghosted by Netgear”
A filing made by Huawei with a U.S. court on Friday accuses Netgear of repeatedly “ghosting” the Chinese innovator when it came to discussing licensing terms.
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Xockets’ antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX may fail, but group boycott of patent holders remains overarching concern
Xockets tries to salvage its antitrust claims against Microsoft, Nvidia and RPX over an alleged conspiracy not to license or buy its patents that it claims are essential to AI.
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ITC judge recommends U.S. import ban on Amazon streaming devices due to violation of 4 out of 5 Nokia multimedia patents
Between Ericsson’s win over Lenovo and now Nokia’s over Amazon, U.S. trade judges have deemed 8 standard-essential patents valid and infringed this week.
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Via LA licensors suing Microsoft in Germany and/or UPC over HEVC video codec patents
Context: This fall, HP and TCL took HEVC (H.265) patent pool licenses from Access Advance (October 30, 2024 ip fray article), thereby settling several patent infringement cases. Those companies had previously taken licenses from MPEG LA, which got acquired by Via Licensing last year to form Via LA (May 2, 2023 Via LA press release)….
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Netgear running out of time against Huawei as next injunction could come down on January 9, patent exhaustion won’t move needle
Netgear faces the risk of another WiFi 6 SEP injunction coming down on January 9, and the exhaustion-based carve-out from the December 18 UPC injunction may be useless.
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Huawei wins Unified Patent Court injunction against Netgear over WiFi 6 in most important UPC SEP ruling to date
The Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division has granted Huawei a multi-country injunction against Netgear over a WiFi 6 standard-essential patent.