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After over 20 years of litigation, the Delhi High Court has ruled that Philips failed to prove that an Indian competitor had infringed one of its audio codec patents, marking the country’s first-ever decision of non-infringement of a standard-essential patent.

Via Licensing Alliance’s President Heath Hoglund sat down with ip fray to discuss the highlights from the pool administrator’s third annual Bridge Summit, his thoughts on licensing negotiation groups, and their new semiconductor licensing program plans.

In a 142-page judgment, Mr Justice Meade of the High Court of Justice for England & Wales ruled that Bayer and Regeneron’s equivalence allegations failed, as the patent-in-suits’ claims were too broad.

Microsoft has joined Via LA’s HEVC (H.265) patent pool as a licensee, bringing an end to standard-essential patent litigation initiated by licensors M&K, Gensquare LLC, and Tagivan II in Germany, the pool administrator announced today.

During a recent speech, Xiaomi’s general manager of corporate business development and IP strategy Na Wei discussed the company’s IP trajectory so far, the way she believes IP licensing should act as an invisible hand to support the sustainability of the IP system. She also attributes what is now a “flat” smartphone market to the…

Nokia has sued Paramount in the Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local District and the Munich I Regional Court over the alleged infringement of three video-related patents.

The Federal Circuit has reversed a district court’s ruling that had awarded Finesse Wireless LLC $166 million in damages, after finding no infringement of the asserted patents.

Sources close to ip fray have confirmed that IP Bridge has withdrawn its 4G standard-essential patent dispute against the Chinese electric vehicle maker.

The UPC’s Milan LD now has to decide a lattice girder welding machine patent case, whereas the defendant claims the alleged infringing machines use technology it had already discovered as far back as 2008 (before the patent-in-suit was issued). 

A local chemical company has sued Unitree, the world’s leading robotic dog manufacturer, in Hangzhou, China, over alleged patent infringement, shortly after the company started preparations to file for an IPO.