Category: Patent Litigation
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NVIDIA hit with patent infringement suit over Israeli subsidiary’s AI chip products
XtreamEdge Inc. and Concurrent Ventures LLC have sued NVIDIA and Mellanox in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California over the infringement of five of their patents related to data processing.
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Moderna calls itself the “true innovator” in response to CureVac mRNA patent lawsuit, cites broken non-assert promise
Moderna has filed a response to CureVac’s mRNA patent suit, denying infringement, attacking the validity of all 10 patents, and calling the lawsuit “ultimately a meritless attempt to claim success for work it never did”.
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Maxell notches partial USITC win against Samsung as Galaxy import ban recommended
It’s just one part of a multi-theater battle between the two Asian companies which has seen Maxell awarded, and subsequently stripped of, $112 million in damages.
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Wendy’s, Gap, and other merchants hit in Texas PAE campaign asserting ex-Cypress Semiconductor patents
Near Field Electronics is targeting digital payments at a time when point-of-sale devices are becoming a patent hotspot.
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Viasat prevails in $229M jury verdict against Japanese rival over NAND patent infringement
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing one of its flash-memory patents.
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Awaiting potential $1.3B Moderna payout, Arbutus expands Covid-19 patent fight to Pfizer, BioNTech in Canada and UPC
Arbutus and Genevant have filed new lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech in Canada and the UPC over lipid nanoparticle patents, days after collecting $178 million from their Moderna settlement.
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Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeal unanimously upholds Panasonic’s AAC patent injunction against HMD, rejects bilateral licensing demand
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a preliminary injunction Panasonic won against HMD over an AAC patent, rejecting the claim that FRAND requires a separate bilateral licensing offer.
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Rio court orders Hisense to summarize 185-page defense in InterDigital SEP case
In an unusual procedural order, a Brazilian judge directed Hisense to submit a concise summary of its 185-page defense in InterDigital’s HEVC patent case, warning that the pleading’s contradictory and repetitive nature risked delaying the litigation.
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Covid-19 vaccine makers Moderna and Pfizer hit with Sanofi suits over mRNA delivery tech
Sanofi and Translate Bio effectively abandoned their own Covid-19 vaccine effort in 2021 after the former acquired the latter.
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FRAND counterclaims against patent pools in UPC cases: Court of Appeal will have to decide after Hague LD denies preliminary objection
The UPC CoA will have to clarify whether FRAND counterclaims can be brought against pool administrators, which would have serious implications for the standards ecosystem.