Category: Patent Litigation
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Federal Court of Justice of Germany upholds Sisvel v. Haier I & II, declines EU Commission’s request for referral to ECJ: VoiceAge EVS wins over HMD
VoiceAGe EVS has won all the way, and the European Commission’s intervention yielded no result whatsoever.
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Disney alienates customers, hurts brand reputation by switching off Dolby Vision, other premium features due to InterDigital’s Munich injunctions
The German tech press struggles with the notion that Disney would degrade the quality of its premium offering.
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UPC’s Mannheim LD imposes €1.72M contempt fine on Kodak for insufficient information, recall, destruction; discusses cross-border enforcement
The order is significant because of the substantial amount of the penalty as well as the olive branch it extends to the English courts.
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Munich I Regional Court enjoins computer makers Acer and ASUS over Nokia video patent: UK interim license declaration didn’t help
The Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chambers increasingly often rules from the bench. Acer and ASUS got no value out of their UK interim-license declaration.
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“Limited” UPC impact on global pharma patent strategies, interim licenses debate, “seismic” changes at the PTAB: highlights from Patent Litigation Europe
An overwhelming consensus that life sciences companies prefer to litigate in parallel national courts rather than in the UPC, and an intense debate about the use of interim licenses over arbitration, were among the highlights of the second and third days of Kisaco’s annual Patent Litigation Europe in Amsterdam this week.
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Apple gets sued in Unified Patent Court by EyesMatch, facing potential injunction in approx. 10 European countries; EyesMatch settled with Microsoft, Samsung; also suing NVIDIA now
After settling with Ona Patents (backed by Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP) and Headwater, Apple is now being sued by EyesMatch, which peviously struck settlements with Microsoft and Samsung.
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Transsion faces fresh litigation in India: LG Electronics files wireless communications patents infringement action in Delhi High Court
The court, which first heard the case in November, will hear the parties’ arguments over pro-tem measures on February 3, 2026.
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Third-Party Litigation Funding bill failed in U.S. Congress — and “foreign abuse” turned out to be nothing but pretextual
Many members of the litigation finance ecosystem (funders as well as inventors and companies dependent on their support) breathed a sigh of relief a few days ago when the TPLF bill was pulled.
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Onesta files emergency renewed motion to stay injunction in BMW infringement case, invoking judicial estoppel
If this renewed motion is denied, Onesta will “immediately terminate” the parallel cases against BMW in Germany, the company has asserted.