Category: Unified Patent Court
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Unprecedented patent claim limitation has UPC perplexed in new judiciary’s first-ever full patent infringement trial
Few judges have heard as many patent infringement actions as Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann, but in the first full UPC infringement trial in history, he encounered a puzzling claim limitation of a kind that even he had not seen before.
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Patent licensing firm’s lawsuits against Apple, Google in UPC, Munich make strange bedfellows among outside counsel
The fiercest rivalry in German patent litigation history results in an apparently unprecedented joint defense alliance.
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Nokia files 4G/5G patent infringement actions against payment terminal maker Verifone in UPC, Germany
Fresh off the heels from the license deals that settled Nokia’s long-running disputes with OPPO and vivo, a major payment terminal maker that appears to be an unwilling licensee after several years of negotiations has now been sued. Of the last 250+ license deals that Nokia concluded, less than 3% required enforcement action.
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Lenovo files with UPC, seeks UK preliminary injunction to stop Ericsson’s ongoing SEP enforcement in Latin America
Lenovo has informed a U.S. court (which still hasn’t decided on its motion for an antisuit injunction) of new filings with the UPC and a preliminary injunction request in the UK.