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Federal Circuit tells petitioners that IPR denials are unreviewable regardless of reliance on agency guidance in place at time of filing
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Judge appears unconvinced of Samsung Electronics’ U.S. #FRAND/#antitrust complaint against ZTE; Samsung’s counsel hopes for leave to amend
Samsung faced more and tougher questions from the judge.
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Unified Patent Court's CoA: translation of specification presumed accurate if it formed basis of European Patent Office examination; court can decide added matter even without written argument
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UK Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal of Optis’s $700M win with cast of characters familiar from Unwired: roller coaster ride?
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Boehringer Ingelheim wins PI against Dr. Reddy's Laboratories that blocks generic empagliflozin (Jardiance) sales in UK pending October 2026 trial: patent thickets work
DR's slowness in clearing the path for its generic drug backfired.
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Warner Bros. Discovery obtained UK anti-antisuit/anti-AILI injunction against Nokia on Monday; patent infringement litigation started on Saturday
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OPPO licenses 4G and 5G patents to unnamed Chinese automaker engaged in “overseas market expansion”, following similar deal with Volkswagen
Maybe GEELY in light of ongoing litigation with Nokia?
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Interview with Presiding Judge Camille Lignières (Unified Patent Court, Paris Local Division) on the pivotal importance of the third judge, and other interesting questions
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USPTO Director Squires orders rare Director-initiated ex parte reexamination of Nintendo patent, indirectly as result of @games_fray article
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Korean NPE Intellectual Discovery joins Via Licensing Alliance #Qi Wireless Pool as licensor as it gears up to go public
Apple joining the Qi Wireless program as a licensee was a main motivation for joining the pool.
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InterDigital wins German injunction against The Walt Disney Company’s streaming services: Munich I Regional Court
Impressive how fast this went from filing to decision.
InterDigital previously secured anti-antisuit injunctions and two Brazilian PIs.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): interesting PI denial clarifies evidentiary burden, standard for infringement of apparatus claims; enforcement/security distinction by CoA; and more
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Apple/Google/Amazon lobbying front takes #astroturfing to new level of deception in EU Transparency Register and on its website
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Nokia won race to Brazilian courthouse against Warner Bros. Discovery by 66 seconds: Rio de Janeiro, not São Paulo, will decide
A Rio de Janeiro court accepted Nokia's first infringement action against WBD two seconds after midnight.
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Nokia enforces video streaming patents against Warner Bros. Discovery in U.S., Unified Patent Court, Germany, Brazil; overlaps with Paramount cases
WBD has already reacted with a near-instantaneous declaratory-judgment complaint in São Paulo.
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BREAKING: ZTE becomes first SEP holder to win UK interim license appeal; ETSI complaint discredited; future UK cases may involve arbitration terms
Samsung's interim-license declaration has been reversed.
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PI spate: Novo Nordisk just obtained 29 injunctions (26 over patent, 3 over UCL) against semaglutide rivals in Germany, served at CPHI Frankfurt fair
The defendants are mostly from Asia, to a lesser extent from Europe.
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Amazon v. InterDigital injunction remains in place after UK hearing — UK court interested in Unified Patent Court AILI proceedings (Nov. 14 hearing)
Previously a UK judge summoned the parties to a hearing based on something he read on ip fray.
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