Category: Patent Litigation
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NPE named Kove obtains $525 million jury verdict against Amazon Web Services: three patents found infringed
Chicago-based Kove IO has won in its home court, the Northern District of Illinois, and will now have to weigh its options, such as settling (if possible), obtaining an insurancy policy for part of the verdict or bringing in a litigation funder to guarantee a minimum return for its owners.
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Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictions
Emboldened by a recent vote in the European Parliament and other developments, those advocating the interests of implementers of standard-essential patents are vocal. And not every problem they claim to have identified actually exists.
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Judge Alan D. Albright has already participated in various Federal Circuit hearings and decisions
Context: Temporarily, more patent infringement cases were filed with the Waco division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas as patentees flocked to that court to put their cases in front of Judge Alan D. Albright, a former patent litigator who promised to take patent cases to trial rather swiftly.…
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Apple’s opening brief in appeal of Watch case places emphasis on ITC’s domestic industry requirement
Apple has filed its opening brief in the appeal of the Apple Watch import ban ordered by the USITC in October 2023.
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European Commission asks Munich appeals court to reverse lower court in standard-essential patent case
EXCLUSIVE: The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) has asked the Munich Higher Regional Court for permission to appear as an amicus curiae on the defendant’s behalf in a VoiceAge EVS v. HMD case. Different aspects of the EC’s initiative raise serious questions about the agency’s understanding of SEP issues.
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First patent infringement lawsuit over Apple Vision Pro assigned to Texas judge feared by Apple and many others
A few days ago, what is likely the first patent infringement complaint targeting (among others) the Apple new Vision Pro device was filed in the Western District of Texas and assigned to Judge Alan D. Albright.
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Redacted judgment shows Huawei overcomplied with its FRAND licensing obligation in (settled) Amazon dispute
Context: In December it became known that the Munich I Regional Court entered a WiFi 6 standard-essential patent (SEP) injunction against Amazon at the end of a trial (December 26, 2023 ip fray article). The written decision was provided in February, and the dispute was settled, through a global patent license agreement, shortly thereafter (March…
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EU Commission rediscovers “importance of standard essential patents” as “major area of intellectual property protection”
At a recent WTO hearing relating to the European Commission’s trade complaint over Chinese antisuit injunctions, the EC took positions on standard-essential patents that noticeably diverge from its arguments for the proposed SEP Regulation.
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Nokia asserting 5 patents against Verifone: 3 in Munich, 2 in Mannheim, leveraging the ‘103 serial winner
Context: Nokia has filed standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement against payment terminal provider Verifone (previous ip fray article). What’s new: This is a follow-up to the previous article as the patents-in-suit have become known. Direct impact: Verifone is unlikely to avoid being held to infringe: two of the patents-in-suit have previously won Nokia injunctions in Germany…
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Nokia files 4G/5G patent infringement actions against payment terminal maker Verifone in UPC, Germany
Fresh off the heels from the license deals that settled Nokia’s long-running disputes with OPPO and vivo, a major payment terminal maker that appears to be an unwilling licensee after several years of negotiations has now been sued. Of the last 250+ license deals that Nokia concluded, less than 3% required enforcement action.