Category: Patent Litigation
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EPO Enlarged Board limits mandatory description amendments in G 1/25
The EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal has ruled that amended claims do not automatically require corresponding changes to the description, while reinforcing the description’s role in claim interpretation.
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Podcast: interview with WIPO’s Heike Wollgast on SEP mediation pledge, role of alternative dispute resolution in patent litigation
In our latest podcast episode, ip fray interviewed Heike Wollgast, who heads up the IP Disputes Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Arbitration and Mediation Center.
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Accord slapped with injunction in Munich after invalidity losses in EPO, German Federal Patent Court
The Munich I Regional Court has found that Accord infringed TOWA’s dabigatran etexilate patent, issuing an injunction against the company. Dabigatran etexilate is an oral anticoagulant medicine that stops blood clots from forming, preventing strokes, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism, among other things.
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MediaTek targeted in PAE suit over DRAM and NAND patents originally assigned to SK hynix
Several of the asserted patents are relevant to the JEDEC DDR3 SDRAM standard.
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Broadcom escalates patent infringement suits against Hyundai, Deutsche Telekom in UPC
Broadcom’s Avago and VMware have sued Hyundai and Deutsche Telekom, respectively, in the UPC’s Hamburg Local Division (LD), after already initiating disputes against each of the companies in the UPC’s Munich LD earlier this year.
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BREAKING: InterDigital wins sixth straight injunction against Disney — UPC Dusseldorf LD
The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD has found that Disney+ infringes an amended InterDigital patent on device-to-device media casting, extending InterDigital’s unbroken run of six wins against Disney to a new front.
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Federal Circuit issues revised opinion in LG case over TV patents – but damages decision remains untouched
The appeals court had originally issued its opinion in Constellation Designs v. LG Electronics back in April.
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Judge Alan D. Albright, known for transforming Texas’ Western District into a patent litigation hotspot, returns to private practice
Judge Albright has joined the IP litigation team at A&O Shearman’s Austin, Texas office.
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UPC Dusseldorf grants surgical tool maker patent injunction, includes UK
Aesculap has won a UPC ruling against Bojin’s EU authorized representative over a surgical tool patent, but the court held the representative liable only as an intermediary, not as an infringer.
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BMW counters Broadcom patent suit in Munich, brings U.S. declaratory judgment action
BMW has filed a declaratory judgment action against Avago and its subsidiary Broadcom in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, after the latter alleged that it infringed two of its European Ethernet and Wi-Fi patents in a court in Munich, Germany.