Category: Sisvel patent pools
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Netgear settles WiFi 6 standard-essential patent dispute with Huawei, takes license to Sisvel pool between Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court rulings
Netgear and Huawei have filed a motion to stay the U.S: litigation started by the router maker in response to enforcement actions in the UPC and German courts.
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UPC’s Munich LD contradicts EU Commission, separately faults Netgear for unsubstantiated rejection of Sisvel’s WiFi 6 pool license offer
Huawei won a multi-country WiFi 6 SEP injunction against Netgear today, and the UPC’s Munich LD has taken various patentee- and pool-friendly positions on FRAND.
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Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optional
Huawei and EDMI announced a license agreement today that relates to narrowband IoT standards. EDMI could have licensed the related Huawei patents through a Sisvel pool, but opted for a bilateral agreement, which demonstrates the optionality of patent pools.
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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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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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Huawei’s WiFi 6 patent wins over Amazon and router maker AVM validate licensing programs
Judgments by the Munich I Regional Court in WiFi 6 SEP infringement cases brought by Huawei against Amazon and German router maker AVM validate Huawei’s licensing program and, by extension, Sisvel’s WiFi 6 patent pool rates.