Category: Unified Patent Court
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Supercomputer firm ParTec sues Nvidia in UPC, seeks 18-country patent injunction against AI chip giant; previously sued Microsoft in U.S.
The UPC has its first AI patent lawsuit, and it’s a major one: supercomputer firm ParTec is suing the world’s presently most valuable corporation, Nvidia in the Munich Local Division.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): U.S. pleadings disregarded, but U.S. stipulation impacts confidentiality regime; wide variety of other news
Roundup of Unified Patent Court decisions, filings and other noteworthy developments over the course of the last week.
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Panasonic settles SEP disputes with Xiaomi, OPPO; UK interim license made major impact, FRAND determination could have been influential
The High Court of Justice of England and Wales has stayed next week’s FRAND trial(s) in Panasonic v. Xiaomi and Panasonic v. OPPO further to settlememts.
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Enforcement of former BlackBerry patents against Nintendo also extends to Europe’s Unified Patent Court: two cases discovered
Malikie Innovations, the owner of 30K+ former BlackBerry patents, is suing videogame device maker Nintendo not only in the United States but also in Europe’s Unified Patent Court.
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UPC’s Mannheim LD: adult content subscriptions may be necessary to obtain evidence; discovery motions (source code, CDNs) denied
In a dispute involving adult entertainment streaming services, the Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division has denied three parallel discovery motions as disproportionate and premature.
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UPC’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) will bear FRAND in mind when designing dispute resolution: interview with Director Aleš Zalar
ip fray had the opportunity to interview Mr. Aleš Zalar, the head of the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) new Patent Mediation and Arbitration Center (PMAC).
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UPC Roundup (two weeks): wide range of decisions from default judgment to U.S. patent attorneys’ access to sealed documents
This roundup covers two weeks of Unified Patent Court (UPC) decisions.
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UPC’s Lisbon LD denies Ericsson PI against ASUSTeK for lack of urgency, but patent likely valid and infringed
ASUSTeK avoided a preliminary injunction by the UPC’s Lisbon Local Division, but the main proceedings could still lead to a permanent injunction. Lisbon positions itself as a potentially attractive venue.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD enjoins resale of smartphones for elderly over LED patent, addresses some interesting legal questions
The Unified Patent Court’s Dusseldorf Local Division has entered a permanent injunction against a German reseller over a patent deemed infringed by Emporia’s smartphones for the elderly. The decision addresses some interesting questions.