Category: Patent Litigation
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Regeneron makes strides in global Eylea patent enforcement campaign: settles with Sandoz, files fresh UK suits
Regeneron has settled its year-long patent infringement dispute with Sandoz over several patents related to its eye disease drug Eylea, and filed a fresh lawsuit against two more rivals over the same drug in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales.
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InterDigital’s Brazilian double whammy against Disney: preliminary (but merits-based) injunction over two streaming patents
InterDigital’s merits-based two-patent injunction is harder to get stayed or overturned than most Brazilian patent PIs.
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Nokia appeals UK order to disclose SEP contracts to Acer, ASUS, Hisense lawyers, raising procedural issues
Nokia is asking the England & Wales Court of Appeal for an emergency stay of a disclosure order by Mr Justice Mellor. Nokia raises fundamental procedural issues.
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Xiaomi seeks UK FRAND ruling in ASUS, Innovative Sonic SEP dispute
Xiaomi has filed a FRAND suit against ASUSTeK and its affiliate Innovative Sonic in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales, in response to suits they filed against it in the UPC and Germany.
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Pfizer, BioNTech hit back against GSK mRNA suits in UPC, Ireland: file UK revocation action
The move does not come as a major surprise, given the pharma companies’ previous success against GlaxoSmithKline in the UK.
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TP-Link’s UK lawsuit against Huawei appears uneconomical: widely accepted pool option and potential German blowback
TP-Link filed a UK lawsuit against Huawei, but the terms of the Sisvel WiFi 6 pool through which those patents are available have been widely accepted and German courts won’t let UK courts torpedo their cases.
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Oura escalates Ultrahuman patent dispute with more patents and accusations of editing Wikipedia page to accuse Oura of patent trolling
The patent dispute between smart-ring pioneer Oura and Ultrahuman is getting dirty, with Oura accusing Ultrahuman of having edited its Wikipedia page and impersonated its CEO.
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Judge dismisses Ultrahuman’s Indian countersuit against Oura for failure to disclose key information from ITC case: Ultrahuman must refile
Mrs. Justice Arora faults Ultrahuman for not disclosing ITC decisions that were relevant to the question of whether Ultrahuman’s Indian patent-in-suit is valid.
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Federal Circuit revives Sonos v. Google: laches allowed in rare cases only
The Federal Circuit has partly reversed a judgment by the Northern District of California, finding that it abused its discretion in finding that Google was prejudiced by Sonos’ alleged delay in claiming the subject matter at issue via continuation practice.