Category: Patent Litigation
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BREAKING: Ericsson asserting SEPs against Verifone in UPC Mannheim LD and Hague LD
Verifone was the first SEP implementer to settle a UPC litigation (which Nokia had brought).
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Wilus seeking first U.S. SEP injunction in almost 20 years against ASUS subsidiary Askey’s WiFi routers: irreparable harm to research
The only known SEP injunction ever granted by a U.S. district court (in the Digital Era) was CSIRO v. Buffalo in 2007. By coincidence, it also involved WiFi and the same district court.
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Apple patent adversary Masimo acquired in $9.9B deal
As Masimo awaits the outcome of a United States International Trade Commission investigation into a patent non-infringement decision in its case against Apple, and a parallel appeal against a $634 million damages verdict filed by Apple, the company has agreed to be acquired by Danaher for over $9.9 billion.
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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.