Category: Patent Litigation
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Micron and Netlist settle all patent litigation; Micron to pay $600M for 5-year license
As with the earlier Samsung settlement, Micron has agreed to invest in Netlist as part of their deal.
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HMD’s dogged defense against patent infringement actions flies in the face of conventional litigation economics
Across different disputes, HMD’s defensive efforts show a pattern of disproportionate legal expenditures and an unwillingness to settle with patent holders even when the licensing terms in question enjoy wide market acceptance.
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Janssen wins landmark preliminary injunction in District of Delaware
The U.S. District Court has issued a preliminary injunction against Accord BioPharma and Bio- Thera Solutions over the alleged infringement of 17 of Janssen’s patents related to golimumab, a key ingredient in its drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and ulcerative colitis.
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Cerence sues Sony over PlayStation voice recognition tech, adding to litigation against Amazon, Apple
Cerence’s earlier ITC complaint against Sony has been narrowed down; while it also recently settled a copyright dispute with Microsoft.
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Nokia sues Aylo over video encoding patent infringement in Eastern District of Texas
Nokia alleges Aylo ignored three licensing letters while encoding huge volumes of video with its patented techniques, so the plaintiff is now seeking damages going back six years in Marshall, Texas.
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Federal Circuit distinguishes impossibility from indefiniteness, affirms Samsung invalidity win on enablement grounds
The Federal Circuit upheld Samsung’s invalidity win, but shifted the basis from indefiniteness to lack of enablement.
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Federal Circuit dismisses ParkerVision appeal against Qualcomm: Rule 54(b) does not allow partial final judgment on some claims of one patent
The Federal Circuit has held that a patent is a single cause of action, so judgments on receiver claims cannot be appealed while transmitter claims remain pending. ParkerVision’s 15 years of litigation have returned to Florida.
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UPC Court of Appeal establishes need for conditional appeals to keep conditional revocation counterclaims alive in ParTec v. Nvidia
While the CoA has granted a motion for Nvidia to reinstate its right to file an appeal in a case against ParTec, it warned that Nvidia should have brought a conditional appeal to keep its conditional revocation counterclaim alive in the event that the CoA reverses a non-infringement finding made by the UPC’s Munich LD…
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Nvidia sued in Eastern District of Texas by PAE holding data center, networking patents originally owned by Avaya
PulseLink Systems is also enforcing former Avaya patents against Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Zoom.
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Netlist adds new ITC complaint against Micron, Broadcom, Google, and Nvidia; “intends to rely on… Samsung” to prove domestic industry
After settling with Netlist last month, Samsung agreed to provide “certain information… to use in future ITC actions against third parties”.