Friday, May 20, 2022

IP Bridge wins 4G patent injunction against Ford's German subsidiary: Munich I Regional Court announced bench ruling at end of yesterday's trial

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In the second half of 2020, Daimler was slapped with four German standard-essential patent (SEP) injunctions with only 11 weeks between the ...

BREAKING: Google blinks in in-app payments antitrust fight with Epic Games, will keep Bandcamp music marketplace on Google Play Store to moot Epic's motion for preliminary injunction

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BREAKING NEWS It sometimes appears that the "A" in "Apple" means "adamant" (about certain principles as well ...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

OPPO says Nokia base stations infringe patent that is foundational to 5G as key enabler of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC): Munich litigation

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This morning, the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court) held a first hearing in case no. 7 O 14390/21, Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telec...

FTC chair Lina Khan tells ITC 'exclusionary relief is [...] against the public interest where a court has been asked to resolve FRAND terms and can make the SEP holder whole': Philips v. Thales et al.

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It's hard to think of a standard-essential patent (SEP) holder I trust less to be fair than Philips. Before Philips settled with Xiaomi ...

Huawei, Nokia antitrust dispute over component-level licensing of automotive suppliers: Dusseldorf complaint over standard-essential patent license withdrawn

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In retrospect, Nokia's standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute with Daimler was just a distraction, but its net effect is that car-level...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Dutch network operator KPN becomes 7th Avanci licensor to sue Ford Motor Company over 4G standard-essential patents: Munich court schedules first hearing for September

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KPN , the telecommunications carrier formerly owned by the Kingdom of the Netherlands (long-form name: Koninklijke KPN N.V.), has recently f...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Google now has to decide whether to grant Bandcamp (acquired by Epic Games) and Match Group's apps (like Tinder) a grace period of likely less than a year: change of in-app payment policies

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On Thursday, Judge James Donato of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division) held a ...