Category: Patent Litigation
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Open letter by leading UPC firm reflects intense debate over how to achieve more balanced distribution of cases across first-instance venues
ip fray supports (and has indeed promoted on several occasions) the idea of a more balanced docket distribution across the UPC’s first-instance divisions. The only quesation is how to get there without weakening the UPC on the bottom line.
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Dolby sues Snap(chat) over AV1 and HEVC patent infringement in U.S. and Brazil: Access Advance VDP license would resolve issue
Internet platforms that stream videos are largely unlicensed. There is now more enforcement, and the latest major platform to be sued over alleged infringements is Snap, the operator of Snapchat.
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Apple pushes back against Powermat’s Qi SEP assertions with FRAND actions in U.S. and UK, trying to undermine UPC and German jurisdiction
Apple responded to Powermat’s charger-related patent infringement lawsuit in the Western District of Texas with a FRAND contract lawsuit and is now additionally looking for help from the English courts.
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China’s Great Wall Motor and Skyworth sued in Brazilian SEP actions; all patents available through pools; PI against Geely imminent
Avanci licensors are suing Chinese automakers Great Wall Motors and Geely while a Sisvel licensor is suing electronics conglomerate Skyworth. All of that in Brazil. The Skyworth case is likely the first-ever Brazilian patent suit involving the AV1 standard.
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BREAKING: Velos Media joins Sharp, Huawei in suing Disney over HEVC patents after years of bilateral and pool (Avanci Video) negotiations
Against ByteDance (TikTok), Velos has recently obtained an anti-antisuit injunction in the Western District of Texas. On Friday, Velos sued Disney, which is also defending against InterDigital and Huawei.
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UPC CoA ruling leaves glass half-empty (at best) for FRAND determination claims as its theory amounts merely to ancillary jurisdiction
In some cases, rate-setting might be performed. Two UPC LDs would be happy to do so. But a new appellate ruling makes it doubtful whether patentees — and rather unlikely that implementers — will really want to prioritize the UPC in their FRAND strategies.
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BREAKING: Federal Circuit affirms Masimo’s initial ITC win over Apple — but Masimo not too likely to benefit based on what happened yesterday
For Masimo, this is a useless win if the ITC, as is now rather likely after a preliminary ruling, clears Apple’s workaround.
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ZTE, Samsung now awaiting four court rulings after recent trials: considerable risk of knockout punches; Samsung already trying to avoid costs in U.S.
Four ZTE-Samsung cases are under advisement in four different courts in three different countries. Two of them could get Samsung into trouble and the other two may not go well either.
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Here’s what’s REALLY going on in the ZTE-Samsung dispute: why a Samsung case is dead in the water and what hurdles ZTE must overcome today
The ZTE-Samsung licensing dispute draws a lot of interest. Other publications have recently reported, but here we have additional information for you on the UPC Mannheim LD part of the dispute (partly free, partly premium).
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UPC Dusseldorf LD finds Beko and Arçelik’s slowness to declare willingness — but not absence of Dolby pledge —dispositive of FRAND defense
FRAND case law keeps evolving at the UPC as different cases present different fact patterns.