Category: Philips
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ASUS settles global patent litigation with Wilus, Huawei, Philips: takes Sisvel Wi-Fi Multimode pool license
ASUS has become the latest licensee to sign up to Sisvel’s Wi-Fi Multimode standard-essential patent program, days before a potential bench ruling from the Munich I Regional Court in an SEP dispute with Sisvel licensor Philips.
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Delhi High Court overturns Philips’ DVD SEP win, finds ‘insufficient evidence’ of essentiality or infringement, narrows royalty base
The Delhi High Court appellate bench has reversed Philips’s landmark DVD SEP win, finding no proof of essentiality, infringement, or FRAND rates. The exhaustion defense saves the defendant.
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Philips becomes first UPC litigant to win AND fend off permanent injunctions, and first to achieve AND prevent revocation
The Hague LD declared an Advanced Brain Monitoring patent invalid and therefore dismissed the infringement case against Philips.
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Philips wins UPC’s first-ever main-proceedings bench ruling as Munich LD enjoins Belkin over Qi patent; FRAND defense failed
Two firsts in one: the first UPC bench ruling after an oral hearing in main proceedings, and the first UPC judgment with a handwritten clarification.
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HP apparently realized it couldn’t defend against Huawei’s UPC action over WiFi 6, settled three disputes through Sisvel pool license
It didn’t take long after Huawei’s assertion of a winning WiFi 6 patent for HP to settle by taking a Sisvel pool license.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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Dolby seeking SEP-based preliminary injunction against Roku as Munich I Regional Court outpaces UPC’s Munich LD by wide margin
Roku is coming under pressure in the Munich I Regional Court with a January 2026 trial date and a SEP-based preliminary injunction motion, but nothing has happened in the UPC.
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Philips and Vivo settle five-year Indian 3G, 4G SEP dispute
The companies’ patent licensing agreement comes over a year after Oppo settled with Philips in a parallel dispute – diverging from a pattern of settlements involving both parties occurring in short succession of each other.
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Delhi High Court hands Philips landmark win in triple DVD SEP infringement case
After over 13 years of litigation, the Delhi High Court has found that three local DVD manufacturers knowingly infringed one of Philips’ patents – but due to the patent term expiring, has refused to grant a permanent injunction.