Category: Patents
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
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Regeneron makes strides in global Eylea patent enforcement campaign: settles with Sandoz, files fresh UK suits
Regeneron has settled its year-long patent infringement dispute with Sandoz over several patents related to its eye disease drug Eylea, and filed a fresh lawsuit against two more rivals over the same drug in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales.
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InterDigital’s Brazilian double whammy against Disney: preliminary (but merits-based) injunction over two streaming patents
InterDigital’s merits-based two-patent injunction is harder to get stayed or overturned than most Brazilian patent PIs.
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Nokia appeals UK order to disclose SEP contracts to Acer, ASUS, Hisense lawyers, raising procedural issues
Nokia is asking the England & Wales Court of Appeal for an emergency stay of a disclosure order by Mr Justice Mellor. Nokia raises fundamental procedural issues.
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Xiaomi seeks UK FRAND ruling in ASUS, Innovative Sonic SEP dispute
Xiaomi has filed a FRAND suit against ASUSTeK and its affiliate Innovative Sonic in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales, in response to suits they filed against it in the UPC and Germany.
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Pfizer, BioNTech hit back against GSK mRNA suits in UPC, Ireland: file UK revocation action
The move does not come as a major surprise, given the pharma companies’ previous success against GlaxoSmithKline in the UK.