Category: Patent Pools
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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.
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Avanci announces two new German aftermarket licensees, but not the most vocal German would-be licensee: Continental
Context: Avanci regularly announces new licensees, such as ADS-TEC Energy, an electric-vehicle charger maker (October 31, 2024 ip fray article), and new licensors, such as SOLiD (November 11, 2024 LinkedIn post by Avanci). What’s new: Avanci’s Aftermarket program, which launched in early 2023 and covers certain types of devices (monitoring, infotainment and other multi-function products)…
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Philips joins Dolby in Via LA enforcement campaign against BLU Products over AVC/H.264 as Chinese low-cost ODMs lack license
Philips sued BLU Products one day after the latter’s answer to Dolby’s compaint in the same district. Both are Via LA licensors and actually targeting Chinese low-cost ODMs.
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Avanci signs up another EV charger licensee: like most SEP licensing, this happened without litigation
Amid an unprecedented flurry of SEP litigation news, mostly involving settlements, Avanci quietly and amicably signed up another licensee to its electric vehicle charging program.
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Avanci’s Laurie Fitzgerald in Clause 8 interview: no guarantee that Avanci was going to succeed, “but I really wanted it to work”
The Clause 8 podcast discussed with Avanci Vehicle President Laurie Fitzgerald how the automotive SEP licensing program became a success after initially requiring quite a bit of patience.
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Pool rate-setting by courts: various questions left to be resolved in China after SPC ruling while Tesla appeals dismissal in UK
The recent decision by the Supreme People’s Court of China in tCL v. Access Advance on pool rate-setting is narrower than it appeared at first sight. Chinese courts tend to evaluate FRAND questions multifactorially.