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Huawei, Intel among big firms selling patents in June-recorded transactions

Two deals could bring NPE risk but others stem from bankruptcies, buying and selling of business units and company product collaborations

Nokia secures first video streaming platform deal, boosting licensing revenue from new segments

Licence is a big breakthrough in the multimedia space for the Finnish company

Google signs litigation-free patent licence with InterDigital

The new deal covers the Delaware-based patent licensing company’s wireless, Wi-Fi and HEVC portfolios

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Lenovo files another UPC counterattack – this time against Asustek

Chinese company is one of very few smartphone/computer companies asserting its patents at the Unified Patent Court

24 June 2024

DivX loses ITC case against Amazon, but look at its US litigation track record

Docket Navigator data shows the video streaming patent licensor scored settlements in nine of 11 US district court cases and still has active litigation against Amazon and Netflix

10 June 2024

IAM exclusive: Dolby GC Andy Sherman dishes about firm’s GE Licensing acquisition

Sherman opens up about the inside story of the $429 million, 5,000 patent acquisition, his plans for future standardisation work, how Dolby will handle GE Licensing’s patent pool participation, and more

07 June 2024

Dolby to acquire GE Licensing, 5,000 patents, for $429M

“We are really excited because this is really an opportunity to strengthen our core business – particularly our licensing business and particularly in video,” Dolby's Andy Sherman tells IAM in an exclusive interview

06 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

Software assets dominate market: patent transactions in Q1 2024

AST reports that deal numbers were influenced by economic conditions, trends in litigation funding, licensing cycles, and operating companies selling non-core assets

04 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

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

Federal Circuit shuts the door on recovering IPR attorney fees

Dragon Intellectual Property v DISH Network is the latest in a series of precedential rulings since 2020 rejecting requests by litigants to recoup IPR attorney fees

24 May 2024

Meet MPAI, the standardisation body for artificial intelligence data coding

The international nonprofit with 44 members – like Sisvel, ETRI, Stanford and MIT – is developing 17 standards and the IEEE-SA has already adopted five

16 May 2024

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