Category: Patent Litigation
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Edwards Lifesciences defeats NPE in Delaware: first non-infringement, now invalidity, but same root cause in written description
Edwards Lifesciences made UPC history as a plaintiff. In the U.S. Edwards is proving its defensive resilience against an NPE.
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HMD files complaint accusing Federal Court of Justice of Germany of violating constitutional rights in ongoing VoiceAge EVS case
In a constitutional complaint filed in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, HMD has alleged that the Federal Court of Justice of Germany’s refusal to refer “essential questions” of EU law to the European Court of Justice constitutes a “violation of its constitutional right to the lawful judge”.
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Trumpf Laser wins second UPC injunction against rival IPG Laser: Dusseldorf LD ruling
Trumpf Laser has won a second UPC case against IPG Laser, one of its two main rivals in the market for high-performance laser equipment for industrial applications. After the Mannheim LD, the Dusseldorf LD has also granted an injunction.
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UPC starts development of case law on damages causation and quantification, applying German as well as alternatively EU/UPC statutes
In an outlier case where the UPC was asked to determine damages based on a German merits ruling, the panel was unconvinced of any damages being attributable to the defendant’s infringement as opposed to other causes.
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First U.S. patent long-arm assertions in German court withdrawn with prejudice as Onesta settles with Qualcomm; separately, NVIDIA settled
The realistic best-case scenario for BMW materialized with respect to costs. But the overall course of events will not completely discourage others from pulling an Onesta.
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OpenAI, Adobe win UPC long-arm appeal; French plaintiff can’t invoke French long-arm statute before Paris LD against non-UPCland defendants
The Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal. did not need to ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling in this case.
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Apple settles wide-angle camera patent infringement dispute in District of Delaware after successfully invoking “single-means” doctrine
Apple has settled two parallel actions brought by Canada’s Immervision over the alleged infringement of the latter’s wide-angle camera-related patents, bringing the companies’ five-year dispute to an end.
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OPPO wins German 5G case against ASUS; first such win for OPPO, ASUS’s third Munich defeat in as many months
This is OPPO’s first 5G patent injunction, and the history of the dispute is that ASUS attacked first (directly and via non-practicing entity Innovative Sonic).
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Pendulum swings in Nokia’s favor in Brazilian ASUS preliminary injunction case
Nokia has received a favorable expert report in a Brazilian merits-based preliminary injunction case against ASUS.