Category: Patent Pools
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In major win for Via LA’s Qi charging pool, Philips largely defends, partly strengthens UPC’s first-ever SEP injunction on appeal against Belkin
Philips’s success against Belkin will dissuade others from declining to license Via LA’s wireless-charging pool.
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Via LA announces semiconductor memory patent pool program: first in series of semiconductor-related licensing programs
Via Licensing Alliance has announced plans to launch a patent pool program dedicated to licensing semiconductor memory technologies, as part of a new series of programs that will span the semiconductor industry.
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Affirmance of Brazilian preliminary injunction dissuaded BYD from 4G holdout, paved way to Avanci license-based settlement
The sequence of events suggests that the denial of BYD’s motion for reconsideration led to a settlement at this point.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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TP-Link’s UK lawsuit against Huawei appears uneconomical: widely accepted pool option and potential German blowback
TP-Link filed a UK lawsuit against Huawei, but the terms of the Sisvel WiFi 6 pool through which those patents are available have been widely accepted and German courts won’t let UK courts torpedo their cases.
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HMD received AAC license offer from Via more than seven years prior to Fraunhofer’s UPC complaint
A Unified Patent Court order denying an extension of time for HMD’s answer to Fraunhofer’s complaint reveals that Via already made a licensing offer in 2017.
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Via LA’s automotive Qi licensing glass is half-full as Korean supplier BH EVS joins wireless charging patent pool
Via LA’s Qi patent pool has now licensed approximately 50% of the global automotive supplier market.
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Dolby seeking SEP-based preliminary injunction against Roku as Munich I Regional Court outpaces UPC’s Munich LD by wide margin
Roku is coming under pressure in the Munich I Regional Court with a January 2026 trial date and a SEP-based preliminary injunction motion, but nothing has happened in the UPC.