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NPE named Kove obtains $525 million jury verdict against Amazon Web Services: three patents found infringed
Read more: NPE named Kove obtains $525 million jury verdict against Amazon Web Services: three patents found infringedChicago-based Kove IO has won in its home court, the Northern District of Illinois, and will now have to weigh its options, such as settling (if possible), obtaining an insurancy policy for part of the verdict or bringing in a litigation funder to guarantee a minimum return for its owners.
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Thursday and Friday (April 18 & 19): LF/IP Dealmakers Forum in London, including panel on SEP trends
Read more: Thursday and Friday (April 18 & 19): LF/IP Dealmakers Forum in London, including panel on SEP trendsIt’s a unique dealmaking event for litigation finance in general and IP litigation funding in particular.
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EXCLUSIVE: Grand Chamber of European Court of Justice takes patent case — question of cross-border jurisdiction
Read more: EXCLUSIVE: Grand Chamber of European Court of Justice takes patent case — question of cross-border jurisdictionA patent dispute between rival makers of domestic appliances (Germany’sBosch Siemens Hausgeräte and Sweden’s Electrolux) raises a key question of cross-border patent jurisdiction that the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice will discuss at a May 14 hearing.
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Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optional
Read more: Smart meter giant EDMI takes license from Huawei, previously Avanci, but not Sisvel: patent pools are optionalHuawei and EDMI announced a license agreement today that relates to narrowband IoT standards. EDMI could have licensed the related Huawei patents through a Sisvel pool, but opted for a bilateral agreement, which demonstrates the optionality of patent pools.
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Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictions
Read more: Intense lobbying activity around standard-essential patents breeds hyperbole, made-up issues, contradictionsEmboldened by a recent vote in the European Parliament and other developments, those advocating the interests of implementers of standard-essential patents are vocal. And not every problem they claim to have identified actually exists.
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Judge Alan D. Albright has already participated in various Federal Circuit hearings and decisions
Read more: Judge Alan D. Albright has already participated in various Federal Circuit hearings and decisionsContext: Temporarily, more patent infringement cases were filed with the Waco division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas as patentees flocked to that court to put their cases in front of Judge Alan D. Albright, a former patent litigator who promised to take patent cases to trial rather swiftly.…
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Apple’s opening brief in appeal of Watch case places emphasis on ITC’s domestic industry requirement
Read more: Apple’s opening brief in appeal of Watch case places emphasis on ITC’s domestic industry requirementApple has filed its opening brief in the appeal of the Apple Watch import ban ordered by the USITC in October 2023.
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Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. Lava
Read more: Indian SEP ruling penalizes textbook holdout primarily through fee-shifting: Ericsson v. LavaThe Delhi High Court has handed down its ruling in a long-running standard-essential patent dispute between Ericsson and Lava, exposing an extreme case of hold-out behavior.
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