Category: Patents
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Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson continue to dominate $15 billion 5G licensing market: LexisNexis 5G SEP rankings
While the Top 50 5G patent owners reflected broad geographic diversity, Chinese companies continue to dominate the rankings, LexisNexis’s 2026 edition of “Who Is Leading the 5G Patent Race?” has revealed.
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Japan’s influential Judge Nakashima defines Munich-inspired FRAND guidelines, but there is potential for further interjurisdictional friction
After a recent settlement in Pantech v. Google, Judge Motoyuki Nakashima of the Tokyo District Court has provided general FRAND guidance.
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Nokia signs patent licensing agreement with fifth Chinese automaker
The new deal reflects the increased respect shown by Chinese automakers for Nokia’s intellectual property rights, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, said in a blog post today.
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Latest Patently rankings: Huawei leads in cellular and WiFi 6; LG overtakes Samsung in 5G; Qualcomm #2 in cellular, #4 in WiFi 6; Ericsson, Nokia remain strong
Patent data and analytics service Patently just released its updated cellular rankings and its new WiFi 5 and 6 rankings.
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Nokia inks three new multimedia patent licensing agreements, including with social media platform Snapchat
The deals mark Nokia’s first video streaming deals with social messaging companies, Tejas Shah, Nokia’s newly appointed Chief Licensing Officer for New Segments, said in a blog post today.
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Munich Regional Court Judge Dr. Schoen on incoming new judge, cross-border injunctions, FRAND calculations in Wilus v. ASUS
The incoming Presiding Judge over the 21st Civil Chamber, who will replace Judge Dr. Georg Werner, has been chosen and has a “patent-positive approach”, Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber told attendees of the 12th annual IP and Competition Forum in Oxford today.
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Acer sues AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon in Eastern District of Texas
The smartphone manufacturer has taken a similar approach to fellow mobile phone maker ASUS, targeting the companies’ cellular base stations, some of which are equipped by Nokia, but most of which are supplied by Ericsson.
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OPPO’s partnership with Access Advance becomes even more multi-faceted as it takes VVC license, gets MCBA benefits, but for now reserves all VVC enforcement rights
OPPO is asserting a VVC patent against ASUS in China and not (for now) a licensor of VVC Advance.
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Warner Bros. Discovery “pulls a Samsung” against Nokia with U.S. FRAND/antitrust claims after similar ones in other venues; also argues exhaustion by Apple, Amazon licenses
in the midst of a major merger battle, Warner Bros. Discovery is pursuing FRAND matters in at least three different venues now.
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Nokia strikes Hisense license deal as TV maker prefers global patent peace over London dead end; Acer, ASUS lose important co-defendant
Unlike Hisense, Acer and ASUS make computers that are also used for recording video. Encoding claims, however, are outside the ITU FRAND scope.