Category: WiFi
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Avanci launches WiFi 6 Vehicle licensing program: Mercedes-Benz is first licensee
Avanci has launched an SEP licensing platform covering WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 standards, with the first program (Avanci WiFi 6 Vehicle) already up and running with 10 licensors on board, including Atlas Global, BlackBerry, Canon, ISG, KPN, Malikie Innovations, Meizu Technology, NEC Corporation, NTT, and OPPO.
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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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Huawei first SEP holder to get UK interim-license ruling: TP-Link to make non-refundable, upwards-adjustable $12M payment; plus refundable payment on top; no escrow
So far it used to be the implementers, or net licensees, who sought UK interim-license declarations. Huawei v. TP-Link is different. Almost historic.
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ASUS, TP-Link among targets in new U.S. NPE WiFi patent infringement campaign
Licensing firm AX Wireless LLC has sued ASUSTek, D-Link, TP-Link, and Ubiquiti over the alleged infringement of the same five WiFi-related patents in parallel actions in the Eastern District of Texas, the Central District of California, and the Northern District of Illinois.
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New Munich FRAND guidance: up to 18% total SEP royalty on phones, foreign FRAND may backfire, cross-checks (top-down, pools), no capture of non-standardized value, and more
The Munich I Regional Court is the world’s #1 SEP injunction venue. Its new guidelines have now become available, and compatible with the latest Federal Court of Justice decision
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LG Electronics strikes joint WiFi, video codec patent licensing deal with InterDigital, Sony
The agreement licenses LG’s digital TVs and computer display monitors under InterDigital´s joint licensing program with Sony and includes licenses to technologies such as ATSC 3.0, Wi-Fi, and video codecs.
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Munich Regional Court Judge Dr. Schoen on incoming new judge, cross-border injunctions, FRAND calculations in Wilus v. ASUS
The incoming Presiding Judge over the 21st Civil Chamber, who will replace Judge Dr. Georg Werner, has been chosen and has a “patent-positive approach”, Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber told attendees of the 12th annual IP and Competition Forum in Oxford today.
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Atlas Global suffers another blow to global WiFi 6 SEP enforcement campaign as EPO revokes key patent
The European Patent Office has revoked the last of the WiFi standard-essential patents that Atlas Global asserted against TP-Link in Germany and the Unified Patent Court.
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Nokia signs bilateral wireless patent licensing agreement with automaker Stellantis, acquires WiFi 7 patents from Huawei
In a blog post today, Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen, announced that the company has signed a bilateral patent licensing agreement with Stellantis – its fourth major WLAN license deal with an automaker this year – and acquired several of Huawei’s WiFi 7-related patents.
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HP apparently realized it couldn’t defend against Huawei’s UPC action over WiFi 6, settled three disputes through Sisvel pool license
It didn’t take long after Huawei’s assertion of a winning WiFi 6 patent for HP to settle by taking a Sisvel pool license.