Category: Standard-Essential Patents
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ZTE, Samsung now awaiting four court rulings after recent trials: considerable risk of knockout punches; Samsung already trying to avoid costs in U.S.
Four ZTE-Samsung cases are under advisement in four different courts in three different countries. Two of them could get Samsung into trouble and the other two may not go well either.
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Here’s what’s REALLY going on in the ZTE-Samsung dispute: why a Samsung case is dead in the water and what hurdles ZTE must overcome today
The ZTE-Samsung licensing dispute draws a lot of interest. Other publications have recently reported, but here we have additional information for you on the UPC Mannheim LD part of the dispute (partly free, partly premium).
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UPC Dusseldorf LD finds Beko and Arçelik’s slowness to declare willingness — but not absence of Dolby pledge —dispositive of FRAND defense
FRAND case law keeps evolving at the UPC as different cases present different fact patterns.
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OPPO wins German 5G case against ASUS; first such win for OPPO, ASUS’s third Munich defeat in as many months
This is OPPO’s first 5G patent injunction, and the history of the dispute is that ASUS attacked first (directly and via non-practicing entity Innovative Sonic).
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Today’s new UPC and EWHC orders show Amazon must do more to avoid contempt sanctions in InterDigital case: ip fray’s concerns validated
ip fray explained two days ago that a UK court order in an Amazon v. InterDigital FRAND case was not enough for Amazon to comply with the UPC’s requirements. A new UPC order validates that assessment.
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UK-UPC relations enter into Cold War phase or worse with new court order accusing UPC of unfairness while reflecting UK’s Soviet negotiation style
“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable” is how JFK described Soviet negotiation tactics during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. It is unfortunate that a new UK court order makes mockery of the UPC’s peace proposal.
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Wilus argues Samsung, Askey not entitled to FRAND terms after years of hold-out; attacks Samsung’s “surreptitious” circumvention of page limits
Against ASUS subsidiary and router maker Askey, Wilus is seeking the first U.S. SEP injunction since 2007. Now it is seeking other pretrial decisions against Askey and Samsung.
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UK court joins UPC Mannheim in Amazon-Interdigital de-escalation pending appeal — but UK-UPC peace is fragile given what was said today
All eyes are now on the UPC CoA, but the UK court would actually like InterDigital to concede the appeal.