Category: Technology Fields & Markets
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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.
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Ultimate showdown: UPC presumes Amazon is in breach of injunction, gives until Friday to back down; meanwhile, Disney may be settling with InterDigital
Amazon reserves the right to seek damages from InterDigital if no global license is granted on UK-determined terms. The UPC’s Mannheim LD is not prepared to accept this.
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Amazon’s mistake against InterDigital was to bet on the UK instead of the U.S., ignoring the 20-80 rule and the legacy of its home district
The UPC-UK “showdown” involving Amazon and InterDigital is approaching fast. Something must give, and a settlement may be out of reach at this stage.
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InterDigital adds Western District of Texas to global patent enforcement campaign against Amazon
Following patent infringement suits filed in the UK, the Unified Patent Court, Brazil, Germany, and the District of Delaware, InterDigital has now sued Amazon in the Western District of Texas.
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Via Licensing Alliance Qi Wireless pool gains two new Chinese smart auto licensees
Chinese smart automotive companies Huizhou Longcheer Automotive Electronics and Huizhou Desay SV Automotive have joined Via Licensing Alliance’s Qi Wireless Power patent pool as licensees, building on the pool’s recent momentum, particularly across the Asia Pacific region.
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BREAKING: Ericsson asserting SEPs against Verifone in UPC Mannheim LD and Hague LD
Verifone was the first SEP implementer to settle a UPC litigation (which Nokia had brought).
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Wilus seeking first U.S. SEP injunction in almost 20 years against ASUS subsidiary Askey’s WiFi routers: irreparable harm to research
The only known SEP injunction ever granted by a U.S. district court (in the Digital Era) was CSIRO v. Buffalo in 2007. By coincidence, it also involved WiFi and the same district court.
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Apple patent adversary Masimo acquired in $9.9B deal
As Masimo awaits the outcome of a United States International Trade Commission investigation into a patent non-infringement decision in its case against Apple, and a parallel appeal against a $634 million damages verdict filed by Apple, the company has agreed to be acquired by Danaher for over $9.9 billion.
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Breakthrough for VVC as Google implements video standard in Android 17: pool and bilateral licenses to follow
Google has previously implemented codecs that are not subject to its preferred royalty-free pledge, but only at a stage where it would have been a clear mistake not to do so.
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Velos Media met only limited opposition from TikTok to anti-antisuit motion in Western District of Texas: injunction followed TRO
This went smoothly, contrasting with the bitterly-contested antisuit conflict between InterDigital and Amazon.