Category: Technology Fields & Markets
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD enjoins Siemens mammography product over Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent, refusing a €4 billion security demand
The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD held Siemens Healthineers’ MAMMOMAT B.brilliant infringes Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent in three countries, relying on Siemens’s own marketing. It granted an injunction and recall, ordered destruction, and refused Siemens’s €4 billion enforcement-security demand.
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Nokia’s licensing programs continue to break new ground with increasing diversity of device categories
A Nokia executive has provided an update on Nokia’s licensing programs. There are signs of horizontal and vertical expansion, suggesting further growth.
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Boston Scientific raises University of Texas’s alleged inflammatory comments, A-Rod comparisons in appeal of $42M District of Delaware jury verdict
Counsel compared an expert witness to the disgraced baseball player, while also suggesting that the standard for finding invalidity should be similar to deciding whether to commit someone to a psychiatric institution.
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Apple hit with Central District of California complaint over video call patents linked to Intellectual Discovery
Apple has been targeted with other patents connected to the South Korean NPE in recent months.
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Vote to replace Access Advance with Sisvel as VCL HEVC/VVC pool administrator fails: less than 1/3 of licensors in favor
A vote reportedly initiated by Harold Barrault, Vice President and Head of Patent Licensing at Orange (a major pool licensor), has failed to reach the necessary majority to put Sisvel in charge of Access Advance’s VCL HEVC/VVC patent pool.
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Samsung argues non-infringement or breach of (F)RAND obligations in latest Netlist bout
The Korean company’s District of Delaware complaint follows its targeting in a Netlist infringement action filed on the same day that the patent-in-suit was issued.
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Micron files declaratory judgment action on same day as patent grant in expansion of chipmakers’ fight with Netlist
The dispute over JEDEC-compliant memory technologies continues with a newly issued patent in the mix.
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Rio court grants Dolby preliminary injunction in AV1 patent dispute against Skyworth
A Rio de Janeiro court granted Dolby preliminary injunctive relief over a patent allegedly incorporated into the AV1 specification, adding momentum to AV1 enforcement efforts and highlighting Brazil’s growing role in video-codec litigation.
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Fighting left-handed, UPC risks knock-out blows from foreign courts: CoA rejects interference, but may stop short of effective protection
The UPC CoA’s general stance on pushing back against foreign interference is strong and positive. But it may not be enough against jurisdictions that act (and interpret) aggressively and flexibly.
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ASUS may have violated stipulation not to use same prior art against Nokia in parallel PTAB and ITC proceedings: Director review
USPTO Director Squires wants to avoid “second bite at the apple” situations, and ASUS’s conduct has given rise to concern.