Category: Multimedia
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BREAKING: Velos Media joins Sharp, Huawei in suing Disney over HEVC patents after years of bilateral and pool (Avanci Video) negotiations
Against ByteDance (TikTok), Velos has recently obtained an anti-antisuit injunction in the Western District of Texas. On Friday, Velos sued Disney, which is also defending against InterDigital and Huawei.
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Huawei expands Disney HEVC patent infringement campaign to UPC
Huawei has recently filed a second suit against Disney for infringing one of its HEVC patents, this time in the Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division.
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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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Honor becomes latest Via Licensing Alliance AAC patent pool licensee
Via Licensing Alliance has announced that Chinese device maker Honor has taken a license to its Advanced Audio Coding patent pool, taking the pool’s penetration of the mobile market to 80%.
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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.
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Dolby attacks six InterDigital patents in U.S. court to protect its customers Amazon, Disney, TCL, Hisense
Dolby has recently filed a petition for inter partes review against an InterDigital patent, but is now going against five more patents.
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UPC panel warns requesting expedited UK FRAND trials may trigger sanctions: part II of InterDigital v. Amazon coverage
This is a follow-up to our previous report on a highly instructive UPC hearing in Mannheim.
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Amazon backs down (pending appeal) after UPC’s Mannheim LD finds it in breach of InterDigital’s anti-interference injunction; further guidance
The Mannheim Local Division has defused the contempt-of-court issue with Amazon over a potential pursuit of damages in the UK based on hypothetical future enforcement in the UPC.
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Nokia pulls a Huawei against Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount: prepared to grant interim license
This now the second interim-license case (actually, a pair of cases) in which a SEP holder turns an implementer-filed UK FRAND action into a boomerang.