Cases

IP Bridge and HTC enter next round in SEP dispute

Mannheim Regional Court has ruled that HTC infringed IP Bridge’s patent for the mobile communications standard LTE. However, the judges have not grant ...

4 December 2018 by Mathieu Klos

Telecoms

Blackberry and Nokia settle global licence dispute

Blackberry and Finnish company Nokia settled all infringement proceedings across the US and Germany in early November, in the dispute over Blackberry’ ...

4 December 2018 by Mathieu Klos

Connected cars

Broadcom settles dispute with VW and Audi

No sooner had the first major patent dispute in Europe over connected cars begun than it was already over. Chip manufacturer Broadcom and car manufact ...

22 November 2018 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

MPEG LA wins video coding suit with Krieger Mes and Cohausz & Florack

Whether pool patent holders should offer separate licences for their own patents is the focus of a series of lawsuits concerning standard essential pa ...

20 November 2018 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

EIP wins landmark London judgment for Unwired Planet

The UK Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court decision of Colin Birss in the long-running Unwired Planet v Huawei case (case ID: A3/2017/1784). The ...

30 October 2018 by Amy Sandys

Connected cars

False start for Broadcom and Grünecker in suit against Audi and VW

Mannheim Regional Court has ruled that VW and Audi may continue to install broadband antennas from their supplier Continental Temic in their cars (cas ...

1 October 2018 by Mathieu Klos

Standard essential patents

Another setback for Intellectual Ventures

The largest patent infringement case ever launched by Intellectual Ventures before the German courts is not going well. The US-based non-practicing en ...

30 August 2018 by Mathieu Klos

Photovoltaics

SolarEdge sues Huawei and Wattkraft over photovoltaics

Huawei is probably the most frequently sued company before German patent courts. Now SolarEdge has filed another lawsuit against the Chinese telecommu ...

17 August 2018 by Laura King

Semiconductor patents

Nikon and ASML/Carl Zeiss launch wave of suits

A new wave of lawsuits has reached the Dutch and German patent courts. Early last week, Nikon filed several suits against the Dutch company ASML and i ...

2 May 2018 by Laura King

Semiconductor patents

Nikon wins chip patent dispute with help from Hogan Lovells

The Regional Court of Mannheim has ruled that, currently, Carl Zeiss SMT may not distribute special optical exposure apparatus for semiconductor manuf ...

23 April 2018 by Laura King

Connected cars

Warning, trolls ahead

The use of mobile telecommunications in cars is nothing new and so the auto industry has been waiting for NPEs to strike for a long time. But now the ...

6 April 2018 by admin

FRAND

Gulde defends Haier against Sisvel in precedent FRAND case

Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has ruled that Chinese electronics manufacturer Haier can sell its mobiles and tablets in Germany (case IDs: I-15 U 6 ...

4 April 2017 by Laura King

FRAND

Haier wins partial suspension of injunction in SEP case

Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has ruled that the FRAND conditions set out by the European Court of Justice apply to both parties in court cases. In ...

27 January 2016 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

Landmark FRAND guidelines invoked in Sisvel SEP case

Düsseldorf Regional Court last week upheld non-practicing entity Sisvel’s infringement claim against Chinese device manufacturer Haier, ruling it has ...

9 November 2015 by Mathieu Klos