Category: Patents
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Affirmance of Brazilian preliminary injunction dissuaded BYD from 4G holdout, paved way to Avanci license-based settlement
The sequence of events suggests that the denial of BYD’s motion for reconsideration led to a settlement at this point.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayer’s rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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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.