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How the UPC reshaped global enforcement strategies in its first year

Everything you need to know about year one of Europe's new patent system

05 June 2024

Delhi High Court awards multi-million dollar patent damages in watershed ruling

A case between Canadian CCAI and Chinese Mobi Antenna Technologies could herald a new era for compensation in India

05 June 2024

A question of use: recent US trade secret case may flip the script

In a spat between real estate title insurers, a Texas judge has opined that, where there has been no use, a cause of action for misappropriation would not accrue under the DTSA

04 June 2024

UEFA fights off UPC injunction days before EURO 2024 kicks off

Patentee’s NPE status worked against it, Unified Patent Court judges stated

04 June 2024

Samsung’s ‘unclean hands’ dismissal victory was very rare

Docket Navigator research shows unclean hands unenforceability is exceedingly uncommon – succeeding in just three other cases since 2008

03 June 2024

Xiaomi sued at UPC by new Atlantic IP NPE following major patent transfer

NPEs seem to prefer the new European court to US courts when targeting the Chinese phone maker, which has become one of the Unified Patent Court’s most pursued defendants

03 June 2024

Case dismissed because of former IP counsels’ theft of Samsung’s confidential information 

Evidence in the case shows “subversion of our adversarial system of litigation and an invasion of the attorney-client privilege”, Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled

31 May 2024

Lenovo denied UK injunction against Ericsson as tactical gambit falls flat

Device-maker suffers setback in battle to have global dispute determined by English courts

31 May 2024

Netlist scores $445M verdict against Micron, but is the patent valid?

The case underscores the problem of US district court juries and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board contradicting each other on questions of patent validity

30 May 2024

Sun Patent Trust seeks French courts’ first ever global FRAND decision in new Xiaomi suit

Paris Judicial Court has already expressed willingness to rule on SEP licensing disputes, but has never made a ruling

29 May 2024

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