FRAND

Sisvel expands UMTS standard campaign against Xiaomi

Sisvel has announced that it is suing Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi in Germany, after filing a lawsuit at the Regional Court Munich. This f ...

14 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Connected cars

Setback for Daimler in connected cars dispute against Avanci pool members

The Regional Court Munich has found that automotive company Daimler infringed one of Sharp's LTE patents, and was an unwilling licensee. The ruling co ...

11 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

Connected cars lawsuits: referral to CJEU increasingly likely

Düsseldorf Regional Court is considering submitting certain issues in the current connected cars cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union ( ...

4 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Long read

The global SEP race

After the UK Supreme Court's ruling in the Unwired Planet and Conversant cases, the European patent community were discussing whether the UK courts ar ...

3 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

Conversant wins in Germany with EIP against Huawei and ZTE

Huawei's and ZTE's mobile phones infringe two of Conversant's SEPs. Düsseldorf Regional Court has now prohibited the two companies from selling UMTS-e ...

2 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Standard essential patents

HEVC Advance members sue Xiaomi and Vestel after MAS Elektronik success

After the recent win of patent pool HEVC Advance against MAS Elektronik, the former has now launched another wave of lawsuits over the video coding st ...

31 August 2020 by Konstanze Richter

FRAND

UK Supreme Court sets new standards in global FRAND litigation

The UK courts have jurisdiction to grant a global FRAND licence and injunctions based on a UK patent. This is the outcome of the judgments from the UK ...

26 August 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Opinion

Germany's top court holds the future of the European patent system in its hands

The UPC, the EPO and now FRAND. The German Constitutional Court is currently deciding on central issues concerning the patent market. The guardians of ...

13 August 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Germany

Haier files constitutional complaint over FRAND judgment

In the FRAND dispute between Sisvel and Haier, the latter party has filed a constitutional complaint against the Federal Court of Justice. Haier consi ...

7 August 2020 by Mathieu Klos

German Federal Court of Justice

Sisvel and Haier judgment brings clarity to FRAND rules

The German Federal Court of Justice has released its reasoning behind the verdict in the case between Sisvel and Haier (case ID: K ZR 36/17). The ruli ...

7 July 2020 by Christina Schulze

Standard essential patents

Licence offers of HEVC Advance video pool are FRAND, rules Düsseldorf court

The Regional Court Düsseldorf has ruled that MAS Elektronik cannot sell products in Germany that infringe patents held by HEVC Advance patent pool mem ...

8 June 2020 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

Federal Court of Justice lays down new FRAND rules for implementers

Yesterday, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that Haier is infringing an SEP of Sisvel and acted as an unwilling licensee in FRAND negotiation ...

6 May 2020 by Mathieu Klos

FRAND

Game over in Unwired Planet and Huawei dispute in Germany

Panoptis, the parent company of Unwired Planet, and Huawei have reached a settlement which ends their litigation in the US and Germany. The battle bet ...

27 April 2020 by Mathieu Klos

The Netherlands

Court of Appeal rules Xiaomi may continue to sell products in the Netherlands

Sisvel has suffered another setback in its patent dispute with Xiaomi. The Court of Appeal The Hague has denied Sisvel a preliminary injunction agains ...

30 March 2020 by Mathieu Klos

Interview

"Harmonisation of jurisdiction could only be achieved through a UPC"

The intellectual property chamber of the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris currently handles around 200 patent cases. JUVE Patent met Nathalie Sabotier and ...

19 March 2020 by Christina Schulze

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