Category: Technology Fields & Markets
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InterDigital sues Disney (including its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries) in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over multimedia patents
InterDigital. one of the leading standard-essential patent holders, is enforcing its rights against Disney and its Hulu and ESPN subsidiaries in the latest streaming patent litigation campaign.
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Access Advance launches video distribution patent pool
The new program covers internet streaming, offering the HEVC, VVC, AV1, and VP9 video codecs in a single license, and resolves the increasingly “hot” issue of video codec licensing in the video streaming market, CEO Peter Moller told ip fray.
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Nokia strikes another patent license deal (renewal) with Samsung: first 5G, now video technologies implemented in TVs
Two years after a 5G patent license agreement, Nokia has now also licensed its video codec patents to Samsung for its TVs.
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Netgear settles WiFi 6 standard-essential patent dispute with Huawei, takes license to Sisvel pool between Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court rulings
Netgear and Huawei have filed a motion to stay the U.S: litigation started by the router maker in response to enforcement actions in the UPC and German courts.
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Netgear obeys UPC and German anti-antisuit injunctions, yet attempts to thwart Huawei’s patent enforcement through interim license
Netgear has withdrawn its request for a U.S. antisuit injunction against Huawei’s UPC and German cases, but keeps pursuing an interim license.
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UPC responds to first antisuit attack on its jurisdiction with first anti-antisuit injunction against Netgear; Huawei also gets one from Munich I Regional Court
Context: Last week, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Munich Local Division (LD) entered a final judgment, along with a permanent injunction, for Huawei and against Netgear (December 18, 2024 ip fray article). We subsequently explained the UPC’s FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) reasoning (December 18, 2024 ip fray article) and reported on a trial that the Landgericht München…
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In U.S. court filing that sheds light on UPC and German cases, Huawei claims to have been “repeatedly ghosted by Netgear”
A filing made by Huawei with a U.S. court on Friday accuses Netgear of repeatedly “ghosting” the Chinese innovator when it came to discussing licensing terms.
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Via LA licensors suing Microsoft in Germany and/or UPC over HEVC video codec patents
Context: This fall, HP and TCL took HEVC (H.265) patent pool licenses from Access Advance (October 30, 2024 ip fray article), thereby settling several patent infringement cases. Those companies had previously taken licenses from MPEG LA, which got acquired by Via Licensing last year to form Via LA (May 2, 2023 Via LA press release)….
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Netgear running out of time against Huawei as next injunction could come down on January 9, patent exhaustion won’t move needle
Netgear faces the risk of another WiFi 6 SEP injunction coming down on January 9, and the exhaustion-based carve-out from the December 18 UPC injunction may be useless.
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Ericsson filing with ITC elaborates on HEVC owners’ licensing obligations, multi-standard license bundle, 16 years of trying to sell license
A post-hearing brief filed by Ericsson in an ITC investigation sheds light on Lenovo’s negotiation conduct and elaborates on the obligations of owners of HEVC SEP.