Category: Patent Litigation
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Heated debate on preliminary injunctions and rate-setting kicks off OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
On a panel that featured speakers from Qualcomm, Huawei, Amazon, and Dell, panelists debated over whether injunctions should really exist. An executive from Amazon added that they would be happy to have courts set rates, no matter where they are based, as this causes “less of a port congestion”.
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Lessons for prior art search providers as Federal Circuit again sides with Valve in appeal over game controller patent
“Something more is required” for estoppel when a classification search returns tens of thousands of results; while forward-and-backward citation searches may result in hindsight bias.
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Verizon hit with $190M jury verdict in infringement suit brought by Aspen Networks over Wi-Fi/cell switching; AT&T, T-Mobile up next
Aspen Networks sued the three U.S. mobile service providers in the Eastern District of Texas in late 2023.
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Gallium nitride patent wars: Innoscience, Infineon clash over Munich injunction rulings
Any injunction granted in the Munich I Regional Court’s rulings yesterday would not apply to Innoscience’s current product portfolio, as it falls outside the scope of Infineon’s asserted German patents, Innoscience has publicly asserted. This claim directly opposes Infineon’s announcement that Innoscience suffered two more defeats yesterday.
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BREAKING: Nokia, Acer sign patent licensing agreement, will determine terms through arbitration
Nokia has today revealed that the parties have signed a patent license agreement covering the use of Nokia’s video coding technologies in Acer’s devices, with any remaining litigation cases between the two companies to be paused or withdrawn.
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With litigation risk solutions under the microscope, PAE steps up Eastern District of Texas campaign asserting patents purchased from Allied Security Trust
AST is clear that under its model “problem patents” can still end up with PAEs; but elsewhere, patent defense solutions seem to be getting increased scrutiny.
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UPC Milan LD denies Ericsson PIs and damages security in ASUS dispute, tries to explain away massive cumulative delay
The UPC’s Milan LD denied Ericsson’s PI motions against ASUS because it was not convinced that the situation had changed during the main proceedings in a way that justified emergency relief. It also denied security for damages.
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UPC grants InterDigital 11-country injunction against Disney’s streaming services: FRAND defense failed in unusual way; €8M (not €500M) security
As predicted by ip fray, InterDigital has won an 11-country HEVC injunction against Disney’s streaming services. Three German injunctions did not lead to a settlement, but this one might.
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Infineon disputes Innoscience’s claim of “final Chinese GaN patent victory”
In a statement to ip fray, Infineon said China’s Supreme People’s Court decision concerned preliminary injunction relief and that the main proceedings remain ongoing.
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Malikie Innovations turns on Toyota in expansion of connected cars campaign asserting Wi-Fi SEPs
Malikie asserted some of the same former Blackberry patents against Honda and Hyundai in U.S. district courts last month.