infringing the UK designations of four of its European SEPs (UK patent numbers 1,031,192; 0,978,210; 1,797,659; and 1,878,177). The licensing company claimed it had made FRAND offers to license its SEP
Last January, the Intermediate People's Court of Shenzhen hit Samsung with an SEP injunction as part of the Korean company's sprawling international patent dispute with Huawei. It was just the second
Nokia has defended Qualcomm in its standard-essential patent (SEP) dispute with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which has also responded to Nokia’s arguments. District Judge Lucy Koh allowed
non-merger litigation and provides an update on the Qualcomm antitrust case. Both antitrust agencies discourage SEP injunctions but issue no formal guidance Both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the
on an "allocation of preamble sequences." For the avoidance of doubt, Nokia asserted both patents in both jurisdictions. Over those patents, Nokia won its first standard-essential patent (SEP
is also the most extensive series of SEP lawsuits at the Unified Patent Court to date. Panasonic filed a total of twelve lawsuits against both implementers at the UPC local divisions in Mannheim and
In a landmark decision, China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently ruled that Chinese courts have jurisdiction over global SEP rate disputes involving foreign patent pools. This marks a
standard-essential patent (SEP) covering Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation Plus (EFM+) coding, which forms an essential and integral industry standard in the manufacturing, storage, and replication of data in
Annex, including the Proposal for a Regulation on Standard Essential Patents (SEP), which was withdrawn due to no foreseeable agreement. This proposal sparked significant debate from the outset among
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's top market regulator on Friday issued guidelines to strengthen regulations on antitrust behaviors pertaining to standard essential patents (SEP). The guidelines