Category: Avanci patent pools
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BREAKING: Tesla loses pool rate determination appeal against Avanci and InterDigital in UK: Lord Justice Arnold got outvoted
Lord Justice Phillips and Lady Justice Whipple voted against the panel member with the most patent-specific experience, applying common sense.
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Chinese automotive industry associations ‘encouraging Chinese automakers not to take a license from Avanci’
The China Automotive Technology & Research Center Ltd. and China Society of Automotive Engineers have highlighted that Avanci’s rates are too high and Chinese car makers should only settle for as low as 10% of its global SEP licensing rates, sources close to the matter have told ip fray.
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EXCLUSIVE: Avanci licensor Sol IP sues Chinese automaker BYD in Munich over 4G SEPs — at least one Chinese car maker is already licensed
Avanci licensor SolIP has filed two standard-essential patent infringement lawsuits against China’s BYD in Munich, seeking only damages for now.
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Avanci responds to Chinese study on automotive SEP license fees: “numerous inaccuracies”
Context: Commonly, when Avanci announces something, it involves new licensors or licensees (see, e.g., this October 9, 2024 ip fray article). Avanci’s automotive pool covers a very high percentage of all 4G and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs), and most of the market (which for 5G depends on whether companies are already implementing it) is licensed….
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Nokia’s Chinese licensing success story continues as wireless innovator announces patent license agreement with second Chinese car maker
Nokia has announced that a second unnamed automaker from China has taken a bilateral license to its cellular standard-essential patents.
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Ruling on Tesla’s appeal of dismissal of UK FRAND case against Avanci unlikely before January
Tesla wants a UK FRAND determination concerning the Avanci 5G patent pool, whose rates have been accepted by the industry at large.
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ITC staff: HEVC SEPs are not FRAND-encumbered like cellular ones; Ericsson merely had to negotiate with Lenovo
The Office of Unfair Import Investigations of the United States International Trade Commission has taken a fairly permissive position on the enforcement of video codec SEPs.
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LG is now also licensee (previously already licensor) of Avanci’s EV charger pool: industry first in cellular SEP licensing
Avanci’s EV Charger program announced the addition of two licensees, EvoCharge and LG. The latter is already a licensor.
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Right-sizing judicial FRAND determinations: one patent at a time? one country? worldwide? or even pools?
Courts can set FRAND rates, and they can form on opinion on whether a given party’s conduct was FRAND, but there are (and must be) important limitations. Litigation isn’t negotiation.
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Is it a good idea for courts to determine patent pool rates even if a pool has already achieved market acceptance?
Before courts set patent pool rates, it bears reflecting on what that means if a pool’s terms already has been accepted by large parts of the market.