Category: Patent Litigation
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UPC roundup: Apple, Google lose bid to switch to English; translation to non-UPC language is party’s problem; serving complaint at trade show
This article aggregates three UPC orders that became discoverable yesterday and relate to patterns that are going to be found in various other UPC cases going forward.
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UPC’s standard for added subject matter remains unresolved after Hague LD decision: EPO ‘gold standard’ or lower hurdle?
The Unified Patent Court’s The Hague Local Division adjudicated a couple of preliminary injunction requests, granting one and denying the other. Interesting legal questions were discussed, but have yet to be resolved definitively.
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UPC announces eight new technically qualified judges, resignation of one: overview
The Unified Patent Court today announced the appointment of eight new technically qualified judges and the resignation of one.
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Redacted FRAND arguments cause delays in UPC SEP actions: Dusseldorf, like Mannheim, grants extension
Context: Earlier this month, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Mannheim Local Division (LD) faced the dilemma that a redacted filing by the plaintiff raising arguments specific to standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing deprived the defendants of full access to a pleading, and in order to minimize the resulting delay, Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Tochtermann bifurcated the…
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UPC CoA order clarifies: arguments for stay are stricken if made only at interim conference; and reveals request for ECJ referral
A patent holder suing Nokia has defended its patent in the Federal Patent Court of Germany, believes to be close to affirmance of that decision by the Federal Court of Justice and now doesn’t want the UPC to rule on a revocation claim.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD prioritizes speed, merges infringement and revocation proceedings to get technical judge ASAP
The UPC’s Dusseldorf Local Division decided at an early stage of proceeding to consolidate the proceedings for an infringement action and a revocation counterclaim in order to get a technical judge assigned sooner rather than later.
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Munich court granted ex parte preliminary injunction over gallium nitride-related patent: Infineon v. Innoscience
Infineon is suing Innoscience over patents related to gallium nitride (GaN) in the United States and has recently obtained a German preliminary injunction narrowly related to a Nuremberg trade show.
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Internet advertising firm AlmondNet wins $122M patent verdict against Amazon in Western District of Texas
Internet advertising firm AlmondNet has won a $122M verdict against Amazon in the Western District of Texas over two of its originally ten asserted patents.
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Oura Ring wants Samsung’s DJ action dismissed for lack of actual controversy, but doesn’t rule out future patent infringement suit
Smart ring maker Oura seeks the dismissal of Samsung’s declaratory-judgment action in the Northern District of California for lack of an actual controversy.