Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC’s Court of Appeal: damages claims can be brought in UPC based on national court ruling on merits; damages may predate UPC start
The UPC’s Court of Appeal has made a decision that is of major precedential relevance in two damages-related respects.
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New UPC decision shows Big Tech can’t always switch language of proceedings to English: ParTec v. Nvidia will be key precedent if upheld on appeal
Context: Many Unified Patent Court (UPC) litigators were profoundly concerned when the Court of Appeal (CoA) overturned two parallel decisions to maintain German as the language of proceedings for licensing firm Ona Patents’ infringement actions against Apple and Google (item 4 of this September 25, 2024 ip fray article). While ip fray was not prepared…
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UPC’s Vienna LD hands down its first injunction: Chinese manufacturer’s traffic signal infringe Austrian innovator’s patent, must be recalled and destroyed
Context: Unified Patent Court (UPC) infringement litigation is still heavily concentrated in the four German Local Divisions (LDs), followed by the Hague LD (January 7, 2025 ip fray article). But some plaintiffs have achieved good results by bringing cases in other venues. What’s new: Today the UPC’s Vienna LD, which had previously (late 2023) adjudicated…
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Avago (Broadcom) actually won the UPC’s first-ever anti-antisuit injunction, paved the way for the Huawei v. Netgear AASI that came down two days later
Not only three but even four attempts to derail German (in two cases also UPC) patent enfrocement actions through U.S. antisuit injunctions have failed in recent years.
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Three attempts to use U.S. courts against German (or UPC) patent enforcement actions have failed in recent years: disproven recipe?
It has been tried three times over the past couple of years to leverage U.S. district courts against German courts or the UPC, and it produced nothing but costs.
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UPC updates: Tesla settles with Broadcom; Dyson close to settling with SharkNinja; observations on December filings
Broadcom and Tesla have apparently settled their patent dispute. Dyson and SharkNinja appear to be close to settling their case. And some observations on UPC filings.
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Netgear settles WiFi 6 standard-essential patent dispute with Huawei, takes license to Sisvel pool between Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court rulings
Netgear and Huawei have filed a motion to stay the U.S: litigation started by the router maker in response to enforcement actions in the UPC and German courts.
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Huawei v. Netgear was only the second UPC anti-antisuit motion this month: a near-simultaneous one may have targeted Xiaomi
The UPC’s Munich LD has now published its December 11, 2024 anti-antisuit injunction in Huawei v. Netgear. It turns out that a similar motion was brought in a different case slightly before Huawei’s filing.
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Abbott fends off Dexcom’s push for patent royalties as multi-jurisdictional litigation settles with 10-year zero-zero patent peace over glucose monitoring devices
Abbott and Dexcom have settled a multi-jurisdictional patent dispute over glucose monitoring devices. It appears that Dexcom failed to achieve its goal of getting Abbott to pay.
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Netgear obeys UPC and German anti-antisuit injunctions, yet attempts to thwart Huawei’s patent enforcement through interim license
Netgear has withdrawn its request for a U.S. antisuit injunction against Huawei’s UPC and German cases, but keeps pursuing an interim license.