Category: Patent Litigation
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BREAKING: Federal Circuit affirms Masimo’s initial ITC win over Apple â but Masimo not too likely to benefit based on what happened yesterday
For Masimo, this is a useless win if the ITC, as is now rather likely after a preliminary ruling, clears Apple’s workaround.
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ZTE, Samsung now awaiting four court rulings after recent trials: considerable risk of knockout punches; Samsung already trying to avoid costs in U.S.
Four ZTE-Samsung cases are under advisement in four different courts in three different countries. Two of them could get Samsung into trouble and the other two may not go well either.
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Here’s what’s REALLY going on in the ZTE-Samsung dispute: why a Samsung case is dead in the water and what hurdles ZTE must overcome today
The ZTE-Samsung licensing dispute draws a lot of interest. Other publications have recently reported, but here we have additional information for you on the UPC Mannheim LD part of the dispute (partly free, partly premium).
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UPC Dusseldorf LD finds Beko and Arçelik’s slowness to declare willingness â but not absence of Dolby pledge âdispositive of FRAND defense
FRAND case law keeps evolving at the UPC as different cases present different fact patterns.
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Edwards Lifesciences defeats NPE in Delaware: first non-infringement, now invalidity, but same root cause in written description
Edwards Lifesciences made UPC history as a plaintiff. In the U.S. Edwards is proving its defensive resilience against an NPE.
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HMD files complaint accusing Federal Court of Justice of Germany of violating constitutional rights in ongoing VoiceAge EVS case
In a constitutional complaint filed in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, HMD has alleged that the Federal Court of Justice of Germanyâs refusal to refer âessential questionsâ of EU law to the European Court of Justice constitutes a âviolation of its constitutional right to the lawful judgeâ.Â
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Trumpf Laser wins second UPC injunction against rival IPG Laser: Dusseldorf LD ruling
Trumpf Laser has won a second UPC case against IPG Laser, one of its two main rivals in the market for high-performance laser equipment for industrial applications. After the Mannheim LD, the Dusseldorf LD has also granted an injunction.
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UPC starts development of case law on damages causation and quantification, applying German as well as alternatively EU/UPC statutes
In an outlier case where the UPC was asked to determine damages based on a German merits ruling, the panel was unconvinced of any damages being attributable to the defendant’s infringement as opposed to other causes.
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First U.S. patent long-arm assertions in German court withdrawn with prejudice as Onesta settles with Qualcomm; separately, NVIDIA settled
The realistic best-case scenario for BMW materialized with respect to costs. But the overall course of events will not completely discourage others from pulling an Onesta.
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OpenAI, Adobe win UPC long-arm appeal; French plaintiff can’t invoke French long-arm statute before Paris LD against non-UPCland defendants
The Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal. did not need to ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling in this case.