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Dolby GC Andy Sherman reflects on success of GE Licensing acquisition, opportunities in Asia
Read more: Dolby GC Andy Sherman reflects on success of GE Licensing acquisition, opportunities in AsiaDolby’s $429 million acquisition of GE Licensing has already generated a lot of value for the company, perhaps even more than what was anticipated, Mr. Sherman told ip fray on the sidelines of the Via Licensing Alliance Business Summit in Shanghai.
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Huawei celebrates milestone of 230 patent licensing agreements
Read more: Huawei celebrates milestone of 230 patent licensing agreementsThe company’s 2024 annual report showed a 22.4% year-on-year increase in R&D spending, suggesting it plans to continue ramping up its outbound licensing activities.
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Nokia, Amazon settle patent dispute with license agreement: fourth video streaming deal for Nokia
Read more: Nokia, Amazon settle patent dispute with license agreement: fourth video streaming deal for NokiaContext: Last month, Nokia announced the third license agreement with an (unnamed) video streaming platform (LinkedIn post by Arvin Patel). But 15 months ago, its discussions with Amazon, whose Prime Video service is one of the leading streaming networks, had reached an impasse and Nokia brought patent infringement actions in the U.S., Germany, India, the…
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Top German court gets first FRAND/SEP case since Sisvel v. Haier: HMD has already appealed VoiceAge EVS ruling to Federal Court of Justice: onward to ECJ?
Read more: Top German court gets first FRAND/SEP case since Sisvel v. Haier: HMD has already appealed VoiceAge EVS ruling to Federal Court of Justice: onward to ECJ?The standard-essential patent dispute between VoiceAge EVS and HMD has reached Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, from where it will presumably be referred to the European Court of Justice.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA decisions on cost awards and case management; Mannheim LD allows contingent request for information
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA decisions on cost awards and case management; Mannheim LD allows contingent request for informationThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our March 22, 2025 UPC Roundup. No major decision came down this week, but some of the orders address issues that will resurface in other UPC cases. 1. Court of Appeal decisions 1.1 Jurisdiction over pre-UPC-era infringing acts to…
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‘Music to my ears’: Chinese IP market welcomes new national foreign-related IP dispute regulations
Read more: ‘Music to my ears’: Chinese IP market welcomes new national foreign-related IP dispute regulationsWhile Chinese patent attorneys have largely welcomed China’s new rules, which would allegedly give China a clearer legal basis to “push back” in foreign-related IP disputes, other voices have suggested the measures may be in response to concerns regarding the Trump Administration’s stance on IP – so China is “preparing for IP lawfare”.
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Ericsson’s Mathias Hellman in IoT & IP Explained interview: interoperability, scale top two considerations in deciding whether to standardize tech
Read more: Ericsson’s Mathias Hellman in IoT & IP Explained interview: interoperability, scale top two considerations in deciding whether to standardize tech“It can be painful to take something great you have developed and put it into a standardized context, but in the long run that is very incredibly important for the communications sector and our ecosystem,” Mr. Hellman tells Dr. Claudia Tapia Garcia.
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Consumer electronics maker Vestel joins Avanci Video patent pool as licensor
Read more: Consumer electronics maker Vestel joins Avanci Video patent pool as licensorTurkish consumer electronics manufacturer Vestel has joined the Avanci Video patent pool as a licensor.
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