The third annual
IP Dealmakers
and
LF Dealmakers
, which is taking place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London this year, launched yesterday with an array of AI in IP workshops and continued today with panels spanning from judicial insights on the complex litigation we are seeing across Europe, to why investors and lenders are underwriting IP as a core asset class.
Context:
A couple of weeks ago, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (EWCA) heard Nokia’s appeal of jurisdictional and interim-license decisions that the High Court of Justice for England and Wales (EWHC) had made in favor of Acer and ASUS, from whom Nokia seeks video patent royalties and who are, partly indirectly, suing Nokia’s customers over cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs). As we reported, the judges pressed the two computer makers on their refusal to engage in arbitration (
April 23, 2026
ip fray
article
Context:
For the ongoing cross-licensing dispute between ZTE (net licensor) and Samsung (net licensee), which resolve disputed back-royalties not only from January 1, 2024 (the day after the previous contract expired) but also for certain types of use in the years before,
the Chongqing Intermediate People’s Court determined that a balancing payment of
$731M
for a contract term until the end of 2029 was fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) (
Context:
Bernhard Frohwitter, the former patent litigator and founder of licensing firm IPCom, is the CEO of ParTec, a German supercomputer firm, and owns BF exaQC AG, ParTec’s patent licensing agent. Two years ago, ParTec and BF ExaQC AG sued Microsoft over three patents in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (
June 10, 2024
ip fray
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