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Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendants
Read more: Headwater launches fresh cloud messaging patent infringement campaign: Tencent, Uber, Target, Walmart among defendantsThe patent infringement campaign appears to be targeting Google customers, as the complaints all refer to the company’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, and it asserts a patent also involved in a recently-settled dispute with Samsung Electronics.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): unitary effect denial upheld; evidence-gathering at IFA; 473-page PI pleading held excessive
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): unitary effect denial upheld; evidence-gathering at IFA; 473-page PI pleading held excessiveThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 14, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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American Express handed win in loyalty program patent infringement dispute
Read more: American Express handed win in loyalty program patent infringement disputeA U.S. district court has granted a motion to dismiss a complaint filed by Loyal-T Systems LLC against American Express for failing to state a claim for relief.
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Moderna, Alnylam settle U.S. COVID vaccine patent infringement dispute
Read more: Moderna, Alnylam settle U.S. COVID vaccine patent infringement disputeAlnylam has settled its three-year dispute against Moderna in the District of Delaware, after a precedential Federal Circuit decision found the patentee had acted as its own lexicographer in defining a key patent specification term, foreclosing its infringement allegations.
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UPC’s Milan Local Division hears Progress Maschinen v. AWM two years after erroneous dismissal
Read more: UPC’s Milan Local Division hears Progress Maschinen v. AWM two years after erroneous dismissalThe UPC’s Milan LD now has to decide a lattice girder welding machine patent case, whereas the defendant claims the alleged infringing machines use technology it had already discovered as far back as 2008 (before the patent-in-suit was issued).
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
Read more: HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated NetgearThe UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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Interview with IP dealmaker Arvin Patel (of Nokia, TiVo, Technicolor fame), who just became managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP
Read more: Interview with IP dealmaker Arvin Patel (of Nokia, TiVo, Technicolor fame), who just became managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IPTop-notch IP dealmaker Arvin Patel is now a managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP.
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Doctrine of equivalents removes painkiller from German market: Grünenthal wins preliminary injunction on appeal
Read more: Doctrine of equivalents removes painkiller from German market: Grünenthal wins preliminary injunction on appealA pharma patent and unfair competition dispute has taken a remarkable turn as the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court granted a preliminary injunction based on infringement by equivalents.
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