Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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UK court order following Amazon v. InterDigital antisuit hearing just serves as summary of status quo; big elephant remains in room
It was already clear during the recent Amazon v. InterDigital hearing in London that the UK antisuit injunction would remain in place.
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Nokia signs bilateral wireless patent licensing agreement with automaker Stellantis, acquires WiFi 7 patents from Huawei
In a blog post today, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, announced that the company has signed a bilateral patent licensing agreement with Stellantis – its fourth major WLAN license deal with an automaker this year – and acquired several of Huawei’s WiFi 7-related patents.
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GUEST ARTICLE: Cellular SEP aggregate royalty rate for carrier network equipment
The following article was authored by Professor John Gong of the Department of Economics of the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing). Guest articles reflect the opinions of their authors, not those of ip fray. As smartphone manufacturers like Apple, Xiaomi and OPPO have accumulated more and more standard-essential patents (SEP), making into the…
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UK consultation on SEP legislation closed two months ago, and they can already scrap their plans because of what has happened since
The UK government gave stakeholders 12 weeks to comment on its vision of global FRAND resolution, but the following month the landscape changed.
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InterDigital’s jurisdictional challenge to Amazon’s UK claims heard by skeptical judge; Amazon rejects LJ Arnold’s arbitration idea
The hurdle to get standalone FRAND claims in the UK dismissed for jurisdicitonal reasons appears to remain very high, if not insurmountable.
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Xiaomi to face off with Datang over 4G/5G SEP infringement in Munich in March 2026, successfully invalidates ASC patents in China
The Munich I Regional Court will hear Datang’s SEP infringement suit against Xiaomi on March 11, 2025, while the latter has successfully invalidated three of Advanced Standard Communication LLC’s patents in China.
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BREAKING: Apple-backed ACT | The App Association withdraws ETSI membership application at General Assembly in face of resistance to astroturfing
ip fray called on ETSI members to vote against the application. Apparently ACT saw that it could not win the vote.
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BREAKING: Nokia acquires video codec patent portfolio from LG Electronics
Nokia has acquired nearly 300 video patents covering coding and encoding technologies from LG Electronics, according to USPTO assignment records.
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334-294 majority of European Parliament votes to sue Commission over withdrawal of EU SEP Regulation: 80% of largest political group against
Context: In the summer, the European Commission (EC) finalized the withdrawal of the proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs) (July 31, 2025 ip fray article). The European Parliament (EP) had overwhelmingly supported the bill, but it was going nowhere in the EU Council. Still, some Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were disgruntled enough…
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HP apparently realized it couldn’t defend against Huawei’s UPC action over WiFi 6, settled three disputes through Sisvel pool license
It didn’t take long after Huawei’s assertion of a winning WiFi 6 patent for HP to settle by taking a Sisvel pool license.