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Gadgets, Gigabytes & Goodwill Blog
NPE Showcase – Sockeye Licensing
This is the latest in the series titled “NPE Showcase,” where we discuss high-volume non-practicing entities (or as some call them, “patent trolls”). This installment will focus on a company…
China Justice Observer
SPC Issues Final Jurisdictional Ruling on OPPO v Nokia Case
By Publisher
On 7 Sept. 2022, the Intellectual Property Court of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) issued a final jurisdictional ruling on the OPPO-Nokia battle over global licensing rates and rejected Nokia’s…
The Brand Protection Blog
Lundbeck v Sandoz – High Court decision
1. Introduction The High Court has delivered the latest instalment in Lundbeck and Sandoz’s lengthy saga concerning escitalopram. The particular circumstances giving rise to this dispute are unique, however, the…
Litigation Finance Journal
GLS Capital to Launch Patent Licensing Subsidiary: Celerity IP
By John Freund
Legal funder GLS Capital has announced plans to finance a licensing and enforcement campaign for patents owned by Asustek Computer Inc. The patents are related to cellular networks—specifically 3G, 4G,…
China Law Vision
Essential or Not? The Perils of Mandatory Licensing for Non-SEPs in China: Case Comments on Four Local Rare Earth Magnet Companies v. Hitachi Metals
By AnJie Broad
Nearly six years and a half since four Ningbo magnetic material manufacturers (“Plaintiffs”) brought lawsuits against Hitachi Metals, Ltd. (“HML”), China’s Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court (“Court”) finally entered its first…
The Patent Playbook
Delaware High Court Allows Licensee To Stop Royalty Payments By Disclaiming Patent Claims
By James Anderson, Baldassare Vinti
In an opinion issued on March 3, 2021, the Supreme Court of Delaware, one of the top commercial courts in the country, overturned a jury verdict that Glaxo Group Limited…
It's Just Business
Business Court Confirms the “Special” Cases Where State Law Claims “Arise Under” Federal Law Remain a Rarity
As a still-young judicial panel, the Business Court frequently has an opportunity to define its boundaries in the face of challenges to its jurisdictional reach. In Inhold, LLC v. PureShield,…
The Patent Playbook
When Is Less Really More for a Patent Licensee?
In Apple v. Qualcomm, Federal Circuit Finds No Standing to Challenge Validity of a Few Patents When Many Were Licensed The development timeline for small-molecule drugs and biologics is lengthy, estimated…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
‘SEPs Expert Group Report’ published – a preliminary helicopter view
The long awaited ‘SEPs Expert Group report’ has been published on Wednesday 10 February on the European Commission’s website (available here). As readers will recall (see here for further details…
PTABWatch
Mine Your Patent Application and You Might Find a Licensee
A patent interference is an adversarial proceeding where each party is trying deprive its opponent of a patent on an invention that that the Patent Office has already decided is…