Category: Patent Litigation
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Munich I Regional Court’s stunning PI for 20+ countries: based on BSH, doctrine of equivalents, difficult-to-enforce formulation patent
Munich has been a patent injunction hotspot for many years, and the latest development may attract even more litigation to the venue.
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Samsung to pay $78 million in media ad monitoring patent infringement suit, parallel suit against Roku may be revived
Anonymous Media Holdings, LLC has been granted a motion for partial summary judgment of validity in its case against Samsung.
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AstraZeneca faces fresh mRNA patent infringement allegations in District of Delaware
Gene-editing tech company Factor Bioscience has sued AstraZeneca and its affiliate Cellectis over the infringement of three mRNA-related patents.
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Starbucks invokes anti-patent-troll state law in major defensive complaint against Key Patent Innovations and its shell company
This is one of the most notable prophylactic patent-related lawsuits because it takes aim at a non-practicing entity’s shell company from multiple angles.
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Affirmance of Brazilian preliminary injunction dissuaded BYD from 4G holdout, paved way to Avanci license-based settlement
The sequence of events suggests that the denial of BYD’s motion for reconsideration led to a settlement at this point.
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayer’s rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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American Express handed win in loyalty program patent infringement dispute
A U.S. district court has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Loyal-T Systems LLC against American Express for failing to state a claim for relief.