Category: Technology Fields & Markets
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In major win for Via LA’s Qi charging pool, Philips largely defends, partly strengthens UPC’s first-ever SEP injunction on appeal against Belkin
Philips’s success against Belkin will dissuade others from declining to license Via LA’s wireless-charging pool.
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FOLLOW-UP: Translations and redacted versions of UPC and German anti-interim-license injunctions in InterDigital v. Amazon; further thoughts
As a follow-up to the news we broke yesterday on InterDigital’s two AILIs against Amazon, we can now publish the documents.
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BREAKING: InterDigital wins world’s first-ever anti-interim-license injunctions: UPC, Munich I Regional Court enjoin Amazon
The same law firm that won the first-ever German anti-antisuit injunction (AASI) and first-ever German AAASI has made history again with the first AILIs in the UPC and Germany.
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BREAKING: ETSI creates new committee on quantum technologies
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has approved the creation of a new Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies, ahead of a major European event on quantum ambition.
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Samsung to pay $78 million in media ad monitoring patent infringement suit, parallel suit against Roku may be revived
Anonymous Media Holdings, LLC has been granted a motion for partial summary judgment of validity in its case against Samsung.
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Via LA announces semiconductor memory patent pool program: first in series of semiconductor-related licensing programs
Via Licensing Alliance has announced plans to launch a patent pool program dedicated to licensing semiconductor memory technologies, as part of a new series of programs that will span the semiconductor industry.
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Hisense seeks declaratory judgment against Dolby, GE, JVC, Philips, NEC, Mitsubishi, ETRI, Huawei, IP Bridge, Sun Patent Trust in Brazil over video SEPs
Hisense is being sued in other jurisdictions, particularly the UPC, for the unlicensed use of video codec SEPs.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
The patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.