Category: Patent Litigation
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‘I had to grab the bull by the horns,’ says Lucy Wojcik, Chief IP Counsel, on transforming Ocado’s IP team
In an interview with ip fray during IP Dealmakers Europe last month, Ms. Wojcik discussed transforming Ocado’s non-existent IP team into an eight-strong unit, behind the scenes of the historical AutoStore dispute, which at one point had over 100 counsel working on the cases across six jurisdictions, and C-suite communication.
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UK court gives significant weight to Nokia offer in interim-payment ruling against Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount
The High Court of Justice for England & Wales has set confidential interim payments pending a November 2026 RAND trial, giving significant weight to Nokia’s prior lump-sum offer and noting that rejection of the streamers’ valuation model could result in a step change worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent: finds “typo” defense insufficient to fix written description gap in provisional filing
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent, rejecting its bid to blame a one-carbon typo in its provisional filing, and leaving Pfizer’s earlier disclosure now free to anticipate the claims.
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Korean monetization platform behind Pantech SEP campaigns targets Hisense, TCL with display patents from Asian tech companies
FairLight Innovations LLC is suing the two Chinese companies in the Eastern District of Texas.
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China’s Supreme People’s Court confirms Innoscience’s China GaN injunctions against Infineon are interim relief
China’s top court has published its decisions in Innoscience v. Infineon, which support ip fray’s reading of Innoscience’s China GaN win over Infineon as interim relief, not final merits wins.
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Dusseldorf LD grants Evac injunction against Shanghai VacDrain, rejects de facto successor theory against German distributor
The Dusseldorf LD found infringement of two Evac patents covering vacuum wastewater technology, granted injunctive relief against the manufacturer and its principal, but dismissed claims against a German distributor.
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Heated debate on preliminary injunctions and rate-setting kicks off OxFora’s 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
On a panel that featured speakers from Qualcomm, Huawei, Amazon, and Dell, panelists debated over whether injunctions should really exist. An executive from Amazon added that they would be happy to have courts set rates, no matter where they are based, as this causes “less of a port congestion”.
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Lessons for prior art search providers as Federal Circuit again sides with Valve in appeal over game controller patent
“Something more is required” for estoppel when a classification search returns tens of thousands of results; while forward-and-backward citation searches may result in hindsight bias.
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Verizon hit with $190M jury verdict in infringement suit brought by Aspen Networks over Wi-Fi/cell switching; AT&T, T-Mobile up next
Aspen Networks sued the three U.S. mobile service providers in the Eastern District of Texas in late 2023.
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Gallium nitride patent wars: Innoscience, Infineon clash over Munich injunction rulings
Any injunction granted in the Munich I Regional Court’s rulings yesterday would not apply to Innoscience’s current product portfolio, as it falls outside the scope of Infineon’s asserted German patents, Innoscience has publicly asserted. This claim directly opposes Infineon’s announcement that Innoscience suffered two more defeats yesterday.