Category: Technology Fields & Markets
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SEP holders now have four ways of avoiding UK interim licenses; Acer, ASUS defeat pokes hole in their (F)RAND defenses in Nokia ITC case
Chinese SEP holders may even have a fifth way of avoiding UK FRAND jurisdiction. Meanwhile, for Acer and ASUS, the recent UK appellate ruling complicates everything in their disputes with Nokia.
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Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from Broadcom
Based on decisions by the UPC to close cases, two significant SEP disputes have apparently been settled: Philips-Belkin (a win for Via in all likelihood) and Broadcom-Renault.
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Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy friction
BYD used to look, from outside China, like a distant domestic EV champion. It no longer does. This study mines BYD’s patent-family data for the underlying strategy, not just the counts. The result is a map of stack control, foreign bets, and policy-constrained markets.
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Nvidia, Western Digital among defendants as vertical chip designer MonolithIC 3D expands multi-district litigation campaign
After filing several U.S. infringement suits in recent months, MonolithIC 3D has just fired off another salvo involving a new set of semiconductor design patents.
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UK appeals court permanently stays Acer, ASUS FRAND cases against Nokia: arbitration acceptable; no more FRAND trial
The Court of Appeal of England & Wales has largely overruled a decision by the High Court of Justice and stayed the proceedings. The two computer makers overplayed their hand.
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Malikie targets Hyundai and Honda in connected-vehicle patent campaign; Wi-Fi SEPs involved
Malikie has filed parallel patent infringement suits against Hyundai and Honda asserting Wi-Fi SEPs and other patents relating to connected-vehicle technologies, while emphasizing lengthy but unsuccessful FRAND licensing discussions prior to litigation.
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Appeals court upholds Nokia’s Brazilian AVC SEP injunction against ASUS, throws out part of expert report with implications for Acer case
ASUS hoped to get Nokia’s Brazilian preliminary injunction lifted by an appeals court, but the PI remains in force and an expert report favoring ASUS’s cause has been deemed unreliable. That also affects a case against Acer.
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BREAKING: USITC orders import ban on Innoscience products over infringement of Infineon gallium nitride patent
China’s Innoscience will be prohibited from importing its infringing products into the U.S. market – though the multi-jurisdiction battle with Infineon looks set to continue.
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District judge opens door to rare “reverse doctrine of equivalents” defense in medical device dispute
The judge’s order came amid long-running litigation between Maquet and Abiomed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts over intravascular blood pump technologies.
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Adeia makes patent acquisitions, comments on DISH litigation as Q1 results point to new market opportunities
The licensing firm says its recent deals with AMD, Microsoft, and L’Oréal are indicative of its diversification drive.