Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Nokia enforcing video codec patent injunction against Lenovo in Germany: standard-essential patent case law diverging from CJEU's Huawei v. ZTE guidance

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Bloomberg reported earlier today , and Lenovo has meanwhile confirmed to me, that Nokia is enforcing a standard-essential patent (SEP) inju...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Fortnite users continue to make in-app purchases on iOS that bypass Apple's payment system: court filing says "Epic is stealing money from Apple"

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Two weeks after Fortnite maker Epic Games brought a motion for judgment on the pleadings against some of Apple's counterclaims (particul...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Nokia's latest standard-essential patent licensing offer to automotive suppliers is too little, too late to obviate referral of key questions to CJEU

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Earlier this year, Nokia made mediation talks with Daimler and various of its suppliers of telecommunications components fail by refusing t...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

App Store Battlemap: all antitrust investigations and complaints targeting Apple's App Store and Google Play from around the globe in one chart

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Battlemaps are a signature element of this blog. Ten years ago I created a number of them to visualize the smartphone patent disputes betwee...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Epic Games insists on conducting discovery of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook's emails: 3.6 million Apple documents are not enough

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On Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Epic Games' ...

Yet another class action complaint against Google over its Google Play app store practices: claims under Sherman Act and competition laws of 27 states

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Earlier today I blogged about the flood of antitrust class actions over app distribution terms . In that case, it was about a new lawsuit br...

Flood of antitrust class actions over app distribution spills over to state court: Beverage v. Apple pending in Superior Court of California

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Just after I wrote in my previous post ( Class action complaint against Apple over offering Apple Arcade while not allowing Microsoft xCloud...