Category: TP-Link
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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.