Category: Uncategorized
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Two U.S. pharma patent disputes fail to make it to trial: Alnylam concedes first round of litigation against Pfizer, BioNTech in COVID vaccine war, Nexus obtains summary judgment of invalidity
While Alnylam has dropped its patent infringement dispute against Pfizer, BioNTech, and Ingenus Pharmaceuticals has failed to take its cancer dispute to trial, both cases are subject to appeal.
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10x Genomics and Bruker (NanoString) end global patent dispute
The UPC’s first major patent dispute has ended after the companies signed a global cross-license patent agreement.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA reverses PI denial, CD invalidates offside detection patent, Gucci doesn’t infringe Agfa patent, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our April 26, 2025 UPC Roundup. More things happened than the week before. 1. CoA reverses denial of provisional measures (i.e., preliminary injunction) in Insulet v. EOFlow (link to detailed article) U.S. company Insulet now has a 17-country preliminary…
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Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP inks Europe-focused patent monetization deal, leverages 1,000 AI-focused patents
This is the young company’s second major patent transaction in less than a week, as it gears up to have its stock publicly traded.
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Federal Circuit hands win to Fox in machine learning patent infringement dispute
“Claims that do no more than apply established methods of machine learning to a new data environment” are not patent eligible, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in dismissing an appeal filed by plaintiff Recentive Analytics.
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Japanese solar panel manufacturers seek to dismiss JinkoSolar’s U.S. patent infringement lawsuit
Context: In December, JinkoSolar filed a patent infringement complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against several major renewable energy companies and solar panel manufacturers, including VSUN Solar USA Inc., Toyo Co. Ltd., and Abalance Corporation and its subsidiaries WWB Corporation and Fuji Solar Co., Ltd. (December 8, 2024…
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Meet Orange’s IP leaders Lyse Brillouet and Harold Barrault
Being appointed Orange’s Executive VP of Research was a “concrete demonstration” of how seriously the board takes the IP department, Lyse Brillouet told ip fray on the sidelines of Via LA’s Summit in Shanghai.
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BREAKING: Nokia ramps up enforcement campaign against Acer, ASUS and Hisense—files ITC complaint
The Finnish SEP giant’s complaint comes less than a week after it also filed suits against the consumer electronics makers in three separate U.S. district courts.
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Significant progress made in 40 years since China’s patent law enacted, but IP units still treated as cost centres, says Changhong IP head Dejian Dai
Our understanding of IP only really began in 2001, when China joined the WTO – so the country has made significant progress in the past 20 years. But there still aren’t enough resources being provided to IP departments, Mr. Dai told ip fray at Via Licensing Alliance’s Business Summit in Shanghai last month.
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Huawei celebrates milestone of 230 patent licensing agreements
The company’s 2024 annual report showed a 22.4% year-on-year increase in R&D spending, suggesting it plans to continue ramping up its outbound licensing activities.