{"id":2266,"date":"2025-04-02T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:25:33","slug":"heat-turns-up-on-automaker-byd-as-avanci-licensor-ip-bridge-seeks-germany-wide-patent-injunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/heat-turns-up-on-automaker-byd-as-avanci-licensor-ip-bridge-seeks-germany-wide-patent-injunctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat turns up on automaker BYD as Avanci licensor IP Bridge seeks Germany-wide patent injunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"posts-content-wrap wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:1px\">\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Context:<\/strong> Chinese automaker BYD has grown from a few hundred thousand cars in its first year to 5.5 million cars in only a few years. But it has yet to license 4G and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs). Apparently some SEP holders are no longer prepared to put up with infringement. Sol IP, a Korean licensing firm with a U.S. legal entity, has sued BYD in the Landgericht M\u00fcnchen I (Munich I Regional Court) (<a href=\"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/exclusive-avanci-licensor-solip-sues-chinese-automaker-byd-in-munich-over-4g-seps-at-least-one-chinese-car-maker-is-already-licensed\/\">February 19, 2025 <strong>ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>), as has Japan&#8217;s IP Bridge (<a href=\"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/another-avanci-licensor-sues-chinas-byd-in-germany-over-cellular-standard-essential-patents-japans-ip-bridge\/\">March 11, 2025 <strong>ip fray<\/strong> article<\/a>). Initially, those were mere damages complaints without prayer for injunctive relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>What&#8217;s new:<\/strong> We have just found out that IP Bridge has added requests for permanent injunctions to both of its Munich cases against BYD.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"mepr_error\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center\">To Read The Full Story<\/h3>\n<div class=\"button\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/staging\/5602\/login\/\">Sign In<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cont-reading-para-wrap\">\n<p>Continue reading your article with a Membership<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button contact-admin-error-btn\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"\/staging\/5602\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IP Bridge is now pursuing injunctive relief against automaker BYD in two patent lawsuits in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,164,26,163,78,168,73,12,20,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-industry-players","category-avanci-licensors-v-byd","category-avanci-patent-pools","category-byd","category-germany","category-ip-bridge","category-jurisdictions","category-patent-litigation","category-patent-pools","category-patents","category-standard-essential-patents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}