Category: Patent Pools
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Getting the EU SEP Regulation right — Part 4: Demystifying IoT, which stands for a wide range of disparate products
Internet of Things products have only one thing in common: connectivity. Other than that, the range covers everything from asset trackers in the form of stickers to airplanes, if not even buildings.
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Avanci’s 5G program announces license agreement with Ford, which joins GM on growing list of car makers
Avanci’s addition of Ford to the list of 5G licensees adds a high-volume brand and one that was reluctant to come on board for the 4G program, but may by now deem it an efficient choice.
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General Motors takes Avanci 5G license: GM’s adoption of Avanci 4G was major breakthrough in spring 2022
Avanci now has more than a dozen car brands among its licensees as GM adds several brands to the list. The licensing program continues to increase its market coverage.
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Alternative proposal: EU SEP Regulation could solve any potential SME issues by requiring pool offers to SMEs
In this article, ip fray makes a proposal for addressing any potential issues small and medium-sized companies may face with standard-essential patent enforcement in the EU, without changing the rules for Apple or BMW.
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Next example of Chinese inbound & outbound licensing: ZTE, TCL join Sisvel’s cellular IoT pool
Sisvel’s cellular IoT patent pool just announced the addition of three new licensors. The two Chinese companies among them are also major implementers of SEPs, which once again shows it would be a mistake to look at Chinese companies only as patent holders or exclusively as patent users.
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Avanci-Zenview announcement on day of Nokia-OPPO settlement shows again: Chinese companies license in, license out
Avanci yesterday announced that Shenzhen-based Zenview has taken a license to its Avanci Broadcast ATSC 3.0 standard-essential patent pool. The same day OPPO reached an agreement with Nokia on a cross-license.
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Sisvel and RPX did it again: patent pool and aggregator work out many-to-many licensing solution
Five years after an agreement under which a multiplicity of RPX members licensed a Sisvel WiFi patent pool, the parties today announced an agreement relating to video codec patents.
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Tesla tells UK court it has Avanci 4G license but wants preferential 5G rate, estimates Avanci’s coverage at 80%
In December 2023, Tesla brought a patent invalidation and declaratory judgment case against InterDigital that also involves FRAND claims against that patent holder as well as the entire Avanci pool.