Category: Patent Pools
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BREAKING: Heath Hoglund, who left Via last month, joins Sisvel as Chief IP Officer
This is Sisvel’s highest-profile external hire.
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Tesla should learn from Amazon-InterDigital, take an Avanci 5G license: even if its long-shot UKSC appeal succeeded, it wouldn’t help
For cross-jurisdictional reasons, Tesla should give up on its UK case against Avanci and InterDigital, in which it lost the first two rounds.
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Hisense threatened legal action against ip fray over timing of conclusion of Access Advance license agreement
We are always happy to make corrections or additions to articles if they are factually warranted. We do that for our readers, and we want to treat everyone fairly. Threats are counterproductive.
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BREAKING: Within hours of Brazilian injunction, HEVC Advance lists Hisense as licensee
The Brazilian court gave Hisense only 48 hours to comply. and a preliminary injunction based on a report by a court-appointed expert has teeth.
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Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZN
Preliminary injunctions, a fine for bad-faith litigation, multiple new video patent lawsuits in the Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court: the heat is on.
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BREAKING: Access Advance acquires Via Licensing Alliance’s HEVC, VVC patent pools
The pools will initially continue running independently, but the goal is to have one combined program – to eliminate market fragmentation – by this time next year, Access Advance’s CEO, Peter Moller, told ip fray.
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BREAKING: Heath Hoglund steps down as Via Licensing Alliance President
Via Licensing Alliance President Heath Hoglund has announced today that he is leaving the company at the end of the year “for a new opportunity”.
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Sun Patent Trust’s UPC action may dissuade automaker Geely from peacemeal resolution; Bardehle becomes first law firm to be on both sides of Avanci
It is unclear why Geely is betting on licensing strategies that Volkswagen and Mercedes previously abandoned.
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Via Licensing Alliance calls on DRAM SEP owners to contribute to new memory technology patent pool
Owners of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) standard-essential patents are invited to be part of Via LA’s newest patent pool, the first in its new semiconductor technology patent series.
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HP apparently realized it couldn’t defend against Huawei’s UPC action over WiFi 6, settled three disputes through Sisvel pool license
It didn’t take long after Huawei’s assertion of a winning WiFi 6 patent for HP to settle by taking a Sisvel pool license.