{"id":923,"date":"2024-10-22T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T11:56:35","slug":"enforcement-of-former-blackberry-patents-against-nintendo-also-extends-to-europes-unified-patent-court-two-cases-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/enforcement-of-former-blackberry-patents-against-nintendo-also-extends-to-europes-unified-patent-court-two-cases-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcement of former BlackBerry patents against Nintendo also extends to Europe&#8217;s Unified Patent Court: two cases discovered"},"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> Ireland-based patent licensing firm Malikie Innovations (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malikieinnovations.ie\/\">corporate website<\/a>) filed a patent infringement lawsuit against videogame device and software maker Nintendo in the Western District of Washington that became discoverable last month. Malikie owns 30K+ former BlackBerry patents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What&#8217;s new:<\/strong> It now turns out that this patent enforcement campaign also has a European part. Two <em>Malikie v. Nintendo<\/em> cases were filed in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) about a week after the U.S. lawsuit. The European patents-in-suit are EP2448225 (&#8220;Navigation tool holder&#8221;) and <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/EP2579551A1\/en?oq=EP2579551+\">EP2579551<\/a> (&#8220;Method and apparatus pertaining to automatically performing an application function of an electronic device based upon detecting a change in physical configuration of the device&#8221;). Both UPC actions were filed with the Hamburg Local Division (LD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Direct impact:<\/strong> In addition to the specter of the willfulness enhancements that Malikie is seeking in the U.S. after Nintendo allegedly declined to take a license, Nintendo now also faces the risk of multi-country patent injunctions in Europe. The UPC has 18 contracting states and may even have jurisdiction in other countries in which EPO-granted patents are registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wider ramifications:<\/strong> Nintendo regularly finds itself on the receiving end of patent lawsuits, but at the moment its highest-profile case is an offensive one. Nintendo is asserting various Japanese software patents (which are simply game rule patents) against Pocketpair, a smaller company whose overnight success Palworld bears a certain resemblance to Nintendo&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon franchise (some call it &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon with guns&#8221;) (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/corporate\/release\/en\/2024\/240919.html\">September 19, 2024 press release by Nintendo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to provide some context, here&#8217;s the U.S. patent infringement complaint in which Malikie describes Nintendo as an unwilling licensee that continued to infringe despite being put on notice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-documentcloud wp-block-embed-documentcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"P9W0mo7FkAnz2NfSUqy4xKGsYdbMlTLaQJjvr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24-09-17 Malikie v. Nintendo complaint (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25245821-24-09-17-malikie-v-nintendo-complaint\/?embed=1&amp;title=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two European patents-in-suit do not appear to have U.S. counterparts. One is a hardware patent and the other links physical configuration changes to software application functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panel: Presiding Judge Sabine Klepsch, Judge Dr. Stefan Schilling and Judge Marije Knijff. They may also appoint a Technically Qualified Judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malikie is being represented by Peterreins Schley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ps-patent.com\/adam.html\">Dr. Thomas Adam<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ps-patent.com\/grunwald.html\">Dr. Marc Grunwald<\/a>. Counsel for Nintendo is not listed in the UPC&#8217;s case registry yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Unified Patent Court.<\/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":[28,138,137,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l-icensors-licensees","category-malikie-innovations","category-nintendo","category-unified-patent-court"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipfray.com\/staging1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}