Category: Patent Litigation
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Speakers, agendas now live for IP Dealmakers Europe + LF Dealmakers Europe (London, May 11-13)
The Super Early Bird rate is still available for the 3rd annual IP/LF Dealmakers Forums Europe (IP and litigation finance) for those who register by February 21 (save £500). ip fray is the official media partner.
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BREAKING: Ericsson brings declaratory judgment action against Acer over 4G/5G patents in District of Delaware to protect its customers
As part of its wider dispute with Nokia, Acer threatened and ultimately sued U.S. mobile network operators over 4G/5G patents. But Ericsson sells equipment to the same customers and is now trying to protect them.
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UPC CoA has good news for plaintiffs: infringement is decided without remand after reversing revocation; and lays out criteria for publication remedy
UPC plaintiffs whose case is thrown out in the first instance over validity issues will normally get a decision on infringement by the CoA without a need for a remand.
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Federal Circuit’s incredible multiverse: dead patent claim gets fictionally resurrected to justify part of $40M+ damages award
This is the oddest Federal Circuit ruling in a long time. Most of it is anything but odd, but allowing a patentee to capture the value of invalidated claim elements is remarkable.
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Broadcom suing Deutsche Telekom in Unified Patent Court after settling with Telefónica, winning injunction against Renault
Broadcom has just settled with Spanish (but internationally present) telecommunications carrier Telefónica, won a high-profile injunction against Renault, and is now going after Deutsche Telekom.
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Acer, ASUS may NOT settle YET despite recent German SEP injunctions: new research and observations; HTC, HMD, OPPO, vivo examples
After last month’s injunctions, Acer and ASUS may still be holding out (which is meant non-judgmentally here). We received (a) surprising information from a court on Friday and (b) took note of an interesting but little-noticed statement.
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New Munich presiding judge advises SEP implementers to carve out Germany from UK license requests, makes other FRAND remarks at ZTE v. Samsung trial
This ZTE v. Samsung trial was the Presiding Judge Dr. Hubertus Schacht’s first FRAND hearing since returning to the Munich I Regional Court and taking over the 21st Civil Chamber.
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Apple’s Texas trial win over Optis has implications for UK Supreme Court hearing in June/July: 500M-300M-zero
The question of how to reconcile a global FRAND rate set in the UK (including for past use) with a U.S. damages award is now a non-issue.
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Judge Albright hands down written antisuit injunction ruling in BMW v. Onesta; settlement looms large, but this matters for future cases
The dispute between Onesta and BMW is apparently coming to an end now, but Judge Albright’s reasoning for an antisuit injunction will be cited to in future situations where U.S. patents are asserted abroad.
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Velos Media met only limited opposition from TikTok to anti-antisuit motion in Western District of Texas: injunction followed TRO
This went smoothly, contrasting with the bitterly-contested antisuit conflict between InterDigital and Amazon.