Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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Thursday and Friday (April 18 & 19): LF/IP Dealmakers Forum in London, including panel on SEP trends
It’s a unique dealmaking event for litigation finance in general and IP litigation funding in particular.
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Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optional
Huawei and EDMI announced a license agreement today that relates to narrowband IoT standards. EDMI could have licensed the related Huawei patents through a Sisvel pool, but opted for a bilateral agreement, which demonstrates the optionality of patent pools.
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Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictions
Emboldened by a recent vote in the European Parliament and other developments, those advocating the interests of implementers of standard-essential patents are vocal. And not every problem they claim to have identified actually exists.
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European Commission asks Munich appeals court to reverse lower court in standard-essential patent case
EXCLUSIVE: The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) has asked the Munich Higher Regional Court for permission to appear as an amicus curiae on the defendant’s behalf in a VoiceAge EVS v. HMD case. Different aspects of the EC’s initiative raise serious questions about the agency’s understanding of SEP issues.
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Qualcomm publishes cellular IoT SEP royalties based on module price but also available to device makers
Qualcomm has licensed module makers for more than a decade and is now also offering a direct license to device makers whose module suppliers do not have a license.
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Redacted judgment shows Huawei overcomplied with its FRAND licensing obligation in (settled) Amazon dispute
Context: In December it became known that the Munich I Regional Court entered a WiFi 6 standard-essential patent (SEP) injunction against Amazon at the end of a trial (December 26, 2023 ip fray article). The written decision was provided in February, and the dispute was settled, through a global patent license agreement, shortly thereafter (March…
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Getting the EU SEP Regulation right — Part 4: Demystifying IoT, which stands for a wide range of disparate products
Internet of Things products have only one thing in common: connectivity. Other than that, the range covers everything from asset trackers in the form of stickers to airplanes, if not even buildings.
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Nokia asserting 5 patents against Verifone: 3 in Munich, 2 in Mannheim, leveraging the ‘103 serial winner
Context: Nokia has filed standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement against payment terminal provider Verifone (previous ip fray article). What’s new: This is a follow-up to the previous article as the patents-in-suit have become known. Direct impact: Verifone is unlikely to avoid being held to infringe: two of the patents-in-suit have previously won Nokia injunctions in Germany…
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Nokia files 4G/5G patent infringement actions against payment terminal maker Verifone in UPC, Germany
Fresh off the heels from the license deals that settled Nokia’s long-running disputes with OPPO and vivo, a major payment terminal maker that appears to be an unwilling licensee after several years of negotiations has now been sued. Of the last 250+ license deals that Nokia concluded, less than 3% required enforcement action.
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Getting the EU SEP Regulation right — Part 3: Small and medium-sized enterprises’ problems not SEP-specific
This latest part of the series on the EU SEP Regulation in light of the EU Parliament’s first-reading vote takes a look at the challenges of small and medium-sized enterprises. They exist, but they are not SEP-specific.