Category: Unified Patent Court
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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Netgear has withdrawn its request for a U.S. antisuit injunction against Huawei’s UPC and German cases, but keeps pursuing an interim license.
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UPC’s Court of Appeal throws out Alexion’s appeals against Amgen and Samsung Bioepis over validity doubts, reveals €100M value of each dispute
The UPC’s Court of Appeal rejects Alexion’s appeals of decisions to deny preliminary injunctions against Amgen and Samsung Bioepis, where the value of the dispute was set at €100M for each case.
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UPC responds to first antisuit attack on its jurisdiction with first anti-antisuit injunction against Netgear; Huawei also gets one from Munich I Regional Court
Context: Last week, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Munich Local Division (LD) entered a final judgment, along with a permanent injunction, for Huawei and against Netgear (December 18, 2024 ip fray article). We subsequently explained the UPC’s FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) reasoning (December 18, 2024 ip fray article) and reported on a trial that the Landgericht München…
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The venue diversity leaders among Unified Patent Court litigation firms: several firms already have (or have had) cases in nine different venues
We recently asked for input from Unified Patent (UPC) litigation firms whose attorneys have appeared in a wide variety of UPC venues (November 25, 2024 ip fray article). From our conversations with the firms that responded and a couple who elected not to, we got a better understanding of different strategies. As we always knew,…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): first Nordic-Baltic RD trial, €46K contempt fine, major FRAND injunction, PI over patent approaching expiration, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) that have happened or become known since the previous UPC Roundup (December 15, 2024 ip fray article). Most roundups sum up what was previously reported (at least on our LinkedIn page), but this present one contains a few items on top….