Category: Philips
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Philips joins Dolby in Via LA enforcement campaign against BLU Products over AVC/H.264 as Chinese low-cost ODMs lack license
Philips sued BLU Products one day after the latter’s answer to Dolby’s compaint in the same district. Both are Via LA licensors and actually targeting Chinese low-cost ODMs.
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First-ever UPC SEP injunction: Philips prevails over Belkin on Qi wireless charging patent, but there was no FRAND defense for lack of market power
The Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division has granted Philips a permanent injunction against Belkin over a Qi (wireless charging) patent.
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Philips settles multi-year SEP dispute with Thales/Telit: CalAmp, Laird, Xirgo not off the hook with respect to Quectel modules
After almost four years, the SEP dispute between Philips and Thales, which sold the relevant business unit to Telit along the way, was settled this week.
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Philips gets 5G SEPs from OPPO, probably under recent settlement agreement and following OPPO’s recent Toyota deal
OPPO’s recently discovered 5G patent sale to Toyota was unprecedented, but a divestiture to Philips, which already owns a number of cellular SEPs and has a very active licensing program, is all the more surprising. It may be due to a settlement.
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UPC Paris CD: amended claims proposed as part of statement of defense to revocation claim accepted despite workflow violation (for now)
The UPC’s Paris CD maintains, for now, a permissive standard for workflow violations. In this case, amended claims were proposed along with the statement of defense to a revocation claim.
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Philips and OPPO settle patent licensing dispute: UK court order
Philips and OPPO have settled their standard-essential patent dispute as a UK court order implies.