Category: TP-Link
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Huawei first SEP holder to get UK interim-license ruling: TP-Link to make non-refundable, upwards-adjustable $12M payment; plus refundable payment on top; no escrow
So far it used to be the implementers, or net licensees, who sought UK interim-license declarations. Huawei v. TP-Link is different. Almost historic.
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ASUS, TP-Link among targets in new U.S. NPE WiFi patent infringement campaign
Licensing firm AX Wireless LLC has sued ASUSTek, D-Link, TP-Link, and Ubiquiti over the alleged infringement of the same five WiFi-related patents in parallel actions in the Eastern District of Texas, the Central District of California, and the Northern District of Illinois.
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Atlas Global suffers another blow to global WiFi 6 SEP enforcement campaign as EPO revokes key patent
The European Patent Office has revoked the last of the WiFi standard-essential patents that Atlas Global asserted against TP-Link in Germany and the Unified Patent Court.
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TP-Link’s UK lawsuit against Huawei appears uneconomical: widely accepted pool option and potential German blowback
TP-Link filed a UK lawsuit against Huawei, but the terms of the Sisvel WiFi 6 pool through which those patents are available have been widely accepted and German courts won’t let UK courts torpedo their cases.
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NPE launches WiFi 6 patent enforcement campaign (11 suits): SEPs formerly owned by ZTE, NXP, Marvell asserted against Acer, ASUSTek, LG, HP, Lenovo
Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC, which owns a portfolio of WiFi 6 standard-essential patents formerly owned by ZTE, Marvell Technology and NXP Semiconductors, has filed 11 complaints in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging “malicious” and “deliberate” patent infringement.
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Atlas Global at risk of losing four patents-in-suit against defendants including Acer, HP, TP-Link, Vantiva; already lost one definitively
Context: Atlas Global is enforcing WiFi patents acquired from Newracom, an ETRI spinoff, against various device makers in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and in Germany. Last summer, the Oberlandesgericht MĂĽnchen (Munich Higher Regional Court) raised the amount of collateral required for enforcement for €4 million to €26 million in an Atlas v. TP-Link case…
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Munich appeals court raises enforcement security amount from €4 to €26 million in WiFi 6 SEP case: Atlas Global v. TP-Link
Context: The Munich I Regional Court’s Seventh Civil Chamber, the best-known patent infringement panel there, has recently taken a highly skeptical approach to the security amounts requested by defendants in the event of a provisional (i.e., while an appeal is pending) enforcement of an injunction. One noteworthy case in which a rather low amount of…
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Latest Munich SEP injunction shows failure of 2021 patent “reform”: Federal Patent Court of Germany didn’t keep six-month target
The six-month target for Germany’s Federal Patent Court to provide preliminary opinions on nullity actions was not kept in the Atlas Global v. TP-Link case in which the Munich court entered an injunction this month.
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New SEP injunction, new standard for security amount: German case law exacerbates as if judges were begging for political intervention
The standard-essential patent enforcement situation in Germany becomes ever less sustainable as injunction after injunction comes down and defendants’ rights are severely compromised.