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BREAKING: Apple-backed ACT | The App Association withdraws ETSI membership application at General Assembly in face of resistance to astroturfing
Read more: BREAKING: Apple-backed ACT | The App Association withdraws ETSI membership application at General Assembly in face of resistance to astroturfingip fray called on ETSI members to vote against the application. Apparently ACT saw that it could not win the vote.
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USPTO Director Squires continues pro-patent enforcement march: IPR petition institutions remain low, submits first-ever public ITC comments
Read more: USPTO Director Squires continues pro-patent enforcement march: IPR petition institutions remain low, submits first-ever public ITC commentsThe United States Patent and Trademark Office’s low institution rate, together with its first-ever public comments to a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation endorsing the ITC as a forum for adjudicating patents, underline Director John A. Squires’s pro-patent and pro-patent enforcement agenda.
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Samsung retaliates against Oura’s ITC complaint with own E.D. Tex. patent infringement allegations against smart-ring maker who just defended core patent at PTAB
Read more: Samsung retaliates against Oura’s ITC complaint with own E.D. Tex. patent infringement allegations against smart-ring maker who just defended core patent at PTABLast month, Oura brought an ITC complaint against Samsung, Reebok, and others. Now Samsung, whose pre-emptive DJ complaint went nowhere, is countersuing Oura.
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BREAKING: Transsion takes HEVC Advance license, settling multiple video patent enforcement disputes
Read more: BREAKING: Transsion takes HEVC Advance license, settling multiple video patent enforcement disputesThe Chinese low-cost smartphone maker is the market leader in Africa and sells high volumes of phones in various (mostly emerging) markets.
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BREAKING: Nokia acquires video codec patent portfolio from LG Electronics
Read more: BREAKING: Nokia acquires video codec patent portfolio from LG ElectronicsNokia has acquired nearly 300 video patents covering coding and encoding technologies from LG Electronics, according to USPTO assignment records.
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Federal Circuit rules Samsung IPR petition valid despite Unified Patents membership, no estoppel
Read more: Federal Circuit rules Samsung IPR petition valid despite Unified Patents membership, no estoppelIn a precedential decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that while Samsung is a member of Unified Patents, their parallel petitions for inter partes review of a Gesture Technology Partner patent are both valid.
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Nokia offered non-proliferation agreement centered around mutual notices to Warner Bros., Paramount; UK judge considers it reasonable
Read more: Nokia offered non-proliferation agreement centered around mutual notices to Warner Bros., Paramount; UK judge considers it reasonableThe article also contains an unofficial English translation of the redacted version of the latest InterDigital v. Amazon decision from Munich.
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This week, ETSI faces the choice between standardization work and mobilization contests, between honesty and charade
Read more: This week, ETSI faces the choice between standardization work and mobilization contests, between honesty and charadeIf ETSI’s General Assembly votes in favor of notorious, Bloomberg-exposed astroturfers, it will be a disappointing inflection point in the organization’s history.
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