Category: Wireless Charging
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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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Philips wins UPC’s first-ever main-proceedings bench ruling as Munich LD enjoins Belkin over Qi patent; FRAND defense failed
Two firsts in one: the first UPC bench ruling after an oral hearing in main proceedings, and the first UPC judgment with a handwritten clarification.
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Korean NPE Intellectual Discovery joins Via LA Qi Wireless Pool as licensor as it gears up to go public
A major licensee joining the Qi Wireless program was a main motivation for joining the pool, Intellectual Discovery’s Executive Vice President Dongsuk Bae tells ip fray.
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In major win for Via LA’s Qi charging pool, Philips largely defends, partly strengthens UPC’s first-ever SEP injunction on appeal against Belkin
Philips’s success against Belkin will dissuade others from declining to license Via LA’s wireless-charging pool.
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Via LA’s automotive Qi licensing glass is half-full as Korean supplier BH EVS joins wireless charging patent pool
Via LA’s Qi patent pool has now licensed approximately 50% of the global automotive supplier market.
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LG Electronics joins Via Licensing Alliance’s Qi wireless charging patent pool as licensor, licensee
LG’s move significantly expands the pool’s share of the Qi wireless charging space, which already previously covered 50% of all declared standard-essential patents.
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Via LA’s Heath Hoglund in Clause 8 interview: early licensee involvement is a sign of future patent pool success
“I have little sympathy for the implementers who complain about not having influence on the outcome if they didn’t participate in the first place,” Via LA President Heath Hoglund tells Eli Mazour.
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Avanci signs up another EV charger licensee: like most SEP licensing, this happened without litigation
Amid an unprecedented flurry of SEP litigation news, mostly involving settlements, Avanci quietly and amicably signed up another licensee to its electric vehicle charging program.
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EU SEP Regulation’s market power flaw exposed by Qi lawsuits in UPC, Germany: Commission and Parliament got it wrong
The dispute between Philips and Belkin over Qi (wireless charging) patents illustrates one of the fundamental flaws of the proposed EU SEP Regulation: the failure to consider market power.