Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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Samsung loses arbitration with InterDigital over FRAND royalty amount, pays 67% more: poor timing in light of global SEP dispute with ZTE
Context: Just like litigation, binding arbitration results in an enforceable decision, and there can be a winner and a loser. Rumor has it that Samsung at least once owed it to an arbitration proceeding that it paid a far lower standard-essential patent (SEP) royalty to a major SEP holder than the other party demanded. But…
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China holds a “paramount” central position in global patent licensing: Via LA’s Jane Bu on move to Shanghai
The Chief Licensing Officer says her three-month move to Shanghai proves the depth of the pool administrator’s commitment to China and the wider Asian region.
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Access Advance welcomes dismissal of Roku’s global FRAND determination claim, draws parallels to Tesla’s UK complaint against Avanci
Roku’s global FRAND determination claim was dismissed due to the overwhelming presence of foreign patents, which would apply to virtually any patent pool.
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Increased ACT pro-SEP regulation activities in India are “scaremongering” but “worrisome”, say SEP holders
ACT has substantially stepped up its level of activity in India, as well as parts of Latin America, with SEP holders calling its actions “misplaced alarmism” and playing into the Indian government’s SME innovation concerns.
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Regional rate structures for patent pools enable some deals and minimize litigation, but each market has its own characteristics
Some patent pools offer regional rates. Others don’t. All of that may merely be reflective of the market-driven nature of the collective-licensing business.
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Access Advance, Via LA position multimedia patent pools for further growth with price stability offer, regionalization for more standards
Via LA extends the concept of regional rates to HEVC/VVC. Access Advance invites implementers with an offer to secure license fees until 2030 and multi-codec incentive.
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Nokia sues Chinese automaker Geely in UPC, Germany over 5G SEPs
Nokia has signed amicable bilateral deals with two Chinese automakers to date, but Geely’s rejection of FRAND patent licensing agreement offers has left the company “no choice” but to pursue legal action, Nokia said in a statement today.
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Federal judge throws out Roku’s FRAND and non-infringement DJ complaint against Dolby, Sun Patent Trust in Access Advance context
Roku is facing patent infringement lawsuits by Access Advance licensors and tried to attack the pool administrator with a U.S. antitrust case, which has now been thrown out.
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Fraunhofer suing HMD in Unified Patent Court over standard-essential audio coding patents
Yet another SEP holder is suing HMD: now it’s Fraunhofer’s turn. Two cases were lodged with the UPC’s Hamburg LD.
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Acer and Longhorn asserting 4G SEPs against truck maker PACCAR and its DAF brand in Texas and Germany
PACCAR, a truck maker with a market capitalization at a level with Ford and GM, lacks cellular standard-essential patent licenses. It has been sued in Munich and Marshall, TX.