Today marked the closing day of the third annual
IP Dealmakers
and
LF Dealmakers
, which took place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London this year.
中国企业
中国企业（3 篇）
Context:
About six weeks ago, the Munich I Regional Court entered a Germany-wide injunction against certain high-speed fixed-line services that Deutsche Telekom sells to households (
March 27, 2026
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Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy friction
中优先级BYD used to look, from outside China, like a distant domestic EV champion. It no longer does. Its cars, factories, and distribution networks are now appearing across multiple overseas markets, and its patent footprint is becoming harder for IP readers to ignore. Like the Black Pearl that seems to appear suddenly on the electric vehicle (EV) horizon, BYD’s scale may look abrupt from shore, but in the patent data, the voyage was charted long before it became so visible.
This study mines BYD’s patent-family data for the underlying strategy, not just the counts. The first layer is technological: where BYD is building control across batteries and BMS, e-drive and power electronics, vehicle architecture, software control, manufacturing, and adjacent industrial categories. The second is procedural: how a China-centered patent base travels through WO/PCT pathways and direct foreign filings. The third is geographic: where recent foreign patent intensity is clustering, and how patent footprint compares with overseas sales exposure. The result is a map of stack control, foreign bets, and policy-constrained markets — read against BYD’s commercial scale-up, overseas exposure, and policy-friction points, so the patent story does not sail on its own.
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SEP/FRAND
SEP/FRAND（2 篇）
Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from Broadcom
中优先级1.
Philips v. Belkin
dispute made (and now is) history; unclear if bilateral or (more likely) pool license was taken
Philips v. Belkin
is a dispute that started in national court and escalated in the Unified Patent Court (UPC), where three notable firsts happened:
This is a very short news piece just to share some information that is very relevant in this era of interjurisdictional friction.
Speaking at an
Oxfirst
webinar today, Judge Victor Torres of the Rio de Janeiro State Court, who has made various major standard-essential patent (SEP) decisions (e.g.,
April 17, 2026
法律裁决
法律裁决（2 篇）
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Court and counsel
Context:
Since the second Trump administration took power in the U.S. in early 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has gradually adopted a strict policy agenda around Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. In particular, inter partes reviews (IPRs)—which have become a popular way for defendants in infringement litigation to challenge plaintiffs’ patents—have substantially dropped in number under Acting (now Deputy) USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart and her successor, incumbent USPTO Director John Squires (
May 4, 2026
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