Category: WiFi
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
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TP-Link’s UK lawsuit against Huawei appears uneconomical: widely accepted pool option and potential German blowback
TP-Link filed a UK lawsuit against Huawei, but the terms of the Sisvel WiFi 6 pool through which those patents are available have been widely accepted and German courts won’t let UK courts torpedo their cases.
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NPE launches WiFi 6 patent enforcement campaign (11 suits): SEPs formerly owned by ZTE, NXP, Marvell asserted against Acer, ASUSTek, LG, HP, Lenovo
Velocity Communication Technologies, LLC, which owns a portfolio of WiFi 6 standard-essential patents formerly owned by ZTE, Marvell Technology and NXP Semiconductors, has filed 11 complaints in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging “malicious” and “deliberate” patent infringement.
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Malikie sees first pushback in global BlackBerry patent enforcement campaign: France’s Vantiva seeks FRAND declaration over WiFi SEPs
Malikie, which bought a substantial part of Blackberry’s non-core patent portfolio in 2023, breached its FRAND obligations when it sued Vantiva for patent infringement, the complainant has alleged.
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Nokia expands wireless patent licensing in automotive sector to WiFi, expects more Chinese auto deals or litigation this year
“This year will be a turning point for automotive licensing in China… either more Chinese automotive companies will sign licences or there will be more litigation by patent holders,” Nokia’s Chief Licensing Officer for Wireless Technologies, Susanna Martikainen writes in a blog post.
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New study: Huawei leads WiFi 7 SEP ownership, Ericsson sole European patentee
A report on WiFi 7 SEP ownership published by GreyB today has found European patentees lag way behind those in Mainland China and the U.S., with Ericsson being the only patentee mentioned from the region.
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Atlas Global at risk of losing four patents-in-suit against defendants including Acer, HP, TP-Link, Vantiva; already lost one definitively
Context: Atlas Global is enforcing WiFi patents acquired from Newracom, an ETRI spinoff, against various device makers in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and in Germany. Last summer, the Oberlandesgericht München (Munich Higher Regional Court) raised the amount of collateral required for enforcement for €4 million to €26 million in an Atlas v. TP-Link case…
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InterDigital strikes patent licensing agreement with HP, Eeva Hakoranta steps down as Chief Licensing Officer
VP of Licensing and Head of the company’s Smartphone Licensing Program Julia Mattis is now Interim Chief Licensing Officer, as the company commences searching for a full-time replacement.
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‘Confidence is everything’: meet Reolink IP head, former Huawei IP counsel Dongfang Shan
Since Dongfang Shan came on board, home security tech firm Reolink has been ramping up its IP efforts. Mr. Shan sat down with ip fray to discuss how he has strengthened the company’s patent portfolio and changed internal views – including by instilling confidence in his subordinates no matter their experience.