Category: Patents
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UK-UPC relations enter into Cold War phase or worse with new court order accusing UPC of unfairness while reflecting UK’s Soviet negotiation style
“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable” is how JFK described Soviet negotiation tactics during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. It is unfortunate that a new UK court order makes mockery of the UPC’s peace proposal.
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Wilus argues Samsung, Askey not entitled to FRAND terms after years of hold-out; attacks Samsung’s “surreptitious” circumvention of page limits
Against ASUS subsidiary and router maker Askey, Wilus is seeking the first U.S. SEP injunction since 2007. Now it is seeking other pretrial decisions against Askey and Samsung.
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UK court joins UPC Mannheim in Amazon-Interdigital de-escalation pending appeal — but UK-UPC peace is fragile given what was said today
All eyes are now on the UPC CoA, but the UK court would actually like InterDigital to concede the appeal.
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Interjurisdictional peace in global SEP enforcement would be possible through mutual covenants not to go extraterritorial
Some litigants are now busier litigating anti-interference and antisuit injunctions (which come in different shapes and forms) than the actual patents. That is an inefficient resource allocation.
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USPTO, DOJ file 3rd joint pro-injunction brief since June in standards-RELATED but NOT undisputedly standard-ESSENTIAL patent case: next stop Wilus v. Askey?
Patent holder Collision said that its patents-in-suit were not standard-essential and Samsung did not raise a FRAND defense, but Collision later made infringement arguments that were standards-related.
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UPC panel warns requesting expedited UK FRAND trials may trigger sanctions: part II of InterDigital v. Amazon coverage
This is a follow-up to our previous report on a highly instructive UPC hearing in Mannheim.
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Amazon backs down (pending appeal) after UPC’s Mannheim LD finds it in breach of InterDigital’s anti-interference injunction; further guidance
The Mannheim Local Division has defused the contempt-of-court issue with Amazon over a potential pursuit of damages in the UK based on hypothetical future enforcement in the UPC.
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Amazon’s mistake against InterDigital was to bet on the UK instead of the U.S., ignoring the 20-80 rule and the legacy of its home district
The UPC-UK “showdown” involving Amazon and InterDigital is approaching fast. Something must give, and a settlement may be out of reach at this stage.