FOSS Patents

As I already indicated in the previous post , after all those years I have decided to move on in various ways. It's the year of new horizons for me. This post is my final one on FOSS Patents. T...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/my-final-foss-patents-post-thanks-again.html

Let me note upfront that this is one of the last articles--possibly the penultimate one--that I'll ever publish on FOSS Patents. That doesn't mean FOSS Patents will disappear immediately: it rem...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/sisvel-subsidiary-3g-licensing-wins.html

I found out from a Light Reading article that "Ericsson has filed a number of lawsuits against Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility for patent infringement in multiple jurisdictions." Whi...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/first-ericsson-v-lenovo-motorola.html

This is a quick follow-up to yesterday's report on the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court's appellate hearing in Deutsche Telekom v. IPCom . Unsurprisingly, the regional appeals court threw out the ...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/appeals-court-rejects-deutsche-telekoms.html

If the decision makers in Brussels knew and understood the facts and the law, they'd realize that the proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs) is misguided and should be tossed...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/governments-of-three-medium-sized-eu.html

I just attended a two-hour appellate hearing in the German city of Karlsruhe. The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court is the appeals court that hears all appeals from the Mannheim Regional Court. In ...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/license-based-settlements-of-sep.html

Unlike those who engage in lobbying, I don't have to mince words when commenting on what's going on in the EU with respect to the proposed regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs). Among o...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/european-parliament-rapporteur-proposes.html

Finally, the proposed EU regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs) has been formally criticized--in the form of a draft committee report--within the European Parliament (EP). Not just from ...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/proposed-eu-sep-regulation-gets.html

Bring the popcorn. The seemingly neverending, multijurisdictional patent dispute between Nokia and OPPO continues to make news. Earlier this week, I reported on a decision by the European Patent ...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/10/uspto-invalidates-nokia-patent-as-per.html

Patent pool administrator Sisvel just announced that Huawei, one of the largest patent holders in this space, has joined the narrowband Internet of Things (IoT) patent pool that was launched las...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/sisvels-narrowband-iot-patent-pool.html

Nokia and OPPO are giving each other a hard time in different patent validity fora. Recently, even some Nokia patents that gave rise to German injunctions have been deemed invalid in other--but d...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/oppo-defends-another-5g-patent-against.html

In January, I reported on the partial dismissal of an antitrust class action against Qualcomm in the Northern District of California (a case that was brought in the wake of the FTC's ultimately u...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/antitrust-class-action-against-qualcomm.html

As I predicted, the Unified Patent Court's Helsinki Local Division today denied an application for provisional measures (the equivalent of a preliminary injunction request) in AIM Sports v. Suppo...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/unified-patent-courts-helsinki-local.html

The Unified Patent Court's Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge: Dr. Matthias Zigann) just announced a preliminary injunction in 10x Genomics v. NanoString. That is the case that was heard two ...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/breaking-upc-news-10xgenomicswins.html

The Avanci 5G automotive standard-essential patent (SEP) pool revealed Mercedes-Benz as its first licensee last month. Today the licensing program announced that BMW has joined as well , which t...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/avanci-5g-doubles-number-of-licensees.html

This is a follow-up to my Thursday post on a Nokia v. OPPO decision by the Swedish Patent and Market Court that held a pair of declared-essential patents (from the same family) invalid , but also...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/four-of-numerous-flaws-of-proposed-eu.html

On Tuesday (September 19), the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) intends to adjudge a preliminary injunction request in a life sciences case . I will do my best to share the...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/new-ftc-initiative-and-very-recent-dc.html

Yesterday I attended the UPC's Vienna Local Division's first-ever court session: a preliminary injunction hearing (CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG vs. Alpina Coffee Systems GmbH) ov...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/upcs-vienna-local-division-demonstrates.html

More than two years have passed since Nokia sued OPPO, and more than one year since OPPO was forced out of the German market by the enforcement of various patent injunctions, at least some of whi...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/oppo-wins-in-swedish-court-as-two-of.html

This article was delayed by the fact that I attended a Unified Patent Court hearing in Vienna yesterday (which was really interesting and I'll write about it later). That same day, Huawei and Xia...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/huawei-and-xiaomi-sign-patent-cross.html

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California just denied in part--and in economic terms, almost completely--a U.S. antitrust class acti...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/french-publishers-us-antitrust-class.html

At this week's Warsaw conference on standard-essential patents (SEPs), Professor Jorge Contreras (Utah)--who is generally in favor of the proposed EU SEP Regulation, which I attribute to his well...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/standard-essential-utility-models-are.html

The Warsaw conference on standard-essential patents (SEPs) that I blogged about last month started yesterday and will end in a few hours. Apart from audio quality, it was probably the best event...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/head-of-eu-commission-unit-that-drafted.html

After two court sessions that exclusively served the purpose of swearing in judges and a video conference hearing on a validity challenge, the first "real" patent infringement hearing in the hist...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/first-ever-upc-preliminary-injunction.html

At 6 PM Pacific Time on Tuesday, Google, approximately three dozen state attorneys-general, and consumer class-action lawyers filed a "stipulation and order re deadlines in consumers' and states...

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/09/three-dozen-us-states-are-about-to.html