Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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Trump DOJ files statement of interest effectively in support of InterDigital against Disney’s SEP-related antitrust accusations
The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in the name of the United States of America in a Delaware case brought by Disney against InterDigital.
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Huawei, Qualcomm, LG Electronics lead cellular IoT patent race: new LexisNexis report
A report published today has revealed that Huawei and Qualcomm lead in NB-IoT and LTE-M patents, while LG Electronics and Huawei are the frontrunners for Cat 1 and V2X.
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In major win for Via LA’s Qi charging pool, Philips largely defends, partly strengthens UPC’s first-ever SEP injunction on appeal against Belkin
Philips’s success against Belkin will dissuade others from declining to license Via LA’s wireless-charging pool.
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FOLLOW-UP: Translations and redacted versions of UPC and German anti-interim-license injunctions in InterDigital v. Amazon; further thoughts
As a follow-up to the news we broke yesterday on InterDigital’s two AILIs against Amazon, we can now publish the documents.
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BREAKING: InterDigital wins world’s first-ever anti-interim-license injunctions: UPC, Munich I Regional Court enjoin Amazon
The same law firm that won the first-ever German anti-antisuit injunction (AASI) and first-ever German AAASI has made history again with the first AILIs in the UPC and Germany.
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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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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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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.