{"id":1064,"date":"2024-11-28T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2024-11-28T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:29:57","slug":"chinese-chinese-dispute-in-upc-xiaomi-gets-sued-over-former-zte-patent-by-texas-based-non-practicing-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/chinese-chinese-dispute-in-upc-xiaomi-gets-sued-over-former-zte-patent-by-texas-based-non-practicing-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-Chinese dispute in UPC: Xiaomi gets sued over former ZTE patent by Texas-based non-practicing entity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context:<\/strong> Last month, Xiaomi settled a standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute with Japan&#8217;s Panasonic (<a href=\"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/panasonic-settles-sep-disputes-with-xiaomi-oppo-uk-interim-license-made-major-impact-frand-determination-could-have-been-influential\/\">October 25, 2024 <strong>ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>). The settlement disposed, inter alia, of multiple cases pending in the Unified Patent Court (UPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s new:<\/strong> Garland, TX-based Advanced Standard Communication LLC filed at least one UPC lawsuit against Xiaomi earlier this month. A case is pending in the UPC&#8217;s Munich Local Division (LD) over <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/EP3016464B1\/en?oq=EP3016464+\">EP3016464<\/a> (&#8220;Method for measuring discovery signal, base station, and terminal&#8221;). The patent was originally obtained by ZTE, a fellow Chinese company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Direct impact:<\/strong> Xiaomi is known to approach licensing negotiations constructively, yet finds itself forced at times to defend itself against excessive royalty demands. What is unclear is whether Xiaomi and ZTE have a patent license agremeent in place. If so, then it was apparently signed after the assignment of that patent to Advanced Standard Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wider ramifications:<\/strong> ZTE has stepped up its patent monetization efforts. That also triggered a pre-emptive strike by Lenovo in the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/breaking-new-standard-essential-patent-dispute-between-zte-and-lenovo-discovered-in-uk\/\">October 27, 2024 <strong>ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The four Xiaomi entities sued by Advanced Standard Communication include the company&#8217;s German and Dutch subsidiaries. Xiaomi has a strong position in major European markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There isn&#8217;t more information available on this dispute other than the panel composition and the identity of the plaintiff&#8217;s lead counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case was assigned to the Munich LD&#8217;s second panel: Presiding Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unified-patent-court.org\/en\/court\/member\/ulrike-voss\">Ulrike Voss<\/a> , Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unified-patent-court.org\/en\/court\/member\/daniel-voss\">Daniel Voss<\/a> (both spelled as &#8220;Vo\u00df&#8221; in German) and Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unified-patent-court.org\/en\/court\/member\/rute-lopes\">Rute Lopes<\/a> (Lisbon, Portugal).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plaintiff is represented by Eisenfuehr Speiser&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eisenfuhr.com\/en\/attorney\/michael-schneider\">Dr. Michael Schneider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UPC lawsuit against Xiaomi by a non-practicing entity from Texas asserting a former ZTE patent has become discoverable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,54,53,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l-icensors-licensees","category-unified-patent-court","category-xiaomi","category-zte"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}