Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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Qualcomm, Transsion sign license deal through end of 2031: 4G, 5G devices now all covered by single contract
Qualcomm and Transsion not only renewed one of their two existing license agreements through the end of 2031, but also seized the opportunity to consolidate both contracts into one.
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Longhorn IP entity files German complaint against farm equipment maker AGCO
The Dusseldorf suit adds to the SEP complaint AGCO is already facing across the country in Munich.
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Celebrating World Standards Day: the ‘invisible backbone’ of innovation
Today, on World Standards Day, we share some of the key statements on the important role standards – and standard-essential patents – play in innovation.
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MIT enforces cloud and IoT chip security patents against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft in U.S.
The asserted quasi-SEPs relate to physical unclonable function (PUF) technology, which has important applications in authentication and cryptography.
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Disney hit with Delaware complaint from ETRI over video coding SEPs
ETRI claims that Disney was repeatedly contacted by Access Advance to take a (F)RAND license to the VDP pool, which would cover the asserted patents.
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ZTE assigns over a hundred more patents to U.S. PAE as Verizon files counterclaim in mobile networking suit
Earlier this year, PAE Eight Deer Ventures asserted patents previously owned by ZTE against Verizon and AT&T in U.S. district court.
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Qualcomm-Huawei disagreement reflects inherently subjective nature of unpacking complex “license-plus” deals
Qualcomm’s and Huawei’s divergent interpretations of their license-plus-patent-transfer agreement are just the latest example of how two parties can take different perspectives on the same deal without anyone necessarily lying.
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HMD’s dogged defense against patent infringement actions flies in the face of conventional litigation economics
Across different disputes, HMD’s defensive efforts show a pattern of disproportionate legal expenditures and an unwillingness to settle with patent holders even when the licensing terms in question enjoy wide market acceptance.
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Opinion: China’s role in the future of global SEP licensing
In this guest contribution, Via Licensing Alliance’s President Kevin Mack reflects on his last visit to China, and the evolution of patent licensing he has witnessed there.
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Dolby, MediaTek bought 40% of video codec patent families that changed hands in the U.S. over six months: USPTO records analysis
A review of recent USPTO assignment records shows Alibaba, LG, and OP Solutions selling video codec patents while Dolby, MediaTek, and licensing entities bought, in some cases, expired patents.