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Last week, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (EWCA) ordered a permanent case management stay of Acer and ASUS’s UK RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory
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) action (
May 12, 2026
中国企业
中国企业（4 篇）
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SIM IP, led by Erich Spangenberg, has rapidly expanded its patent monetization business during the last year through acquisitions, enforcement campaigns, and licensing deals.
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recently covered SIM IP’s merger with Garden Intel to form a $150 million IP monetization platform (
February 6, 2026
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Sisvel launched a Wi-Fi Multimode patent pool in January, which offers access to standard essential patents (SEPs) owned by 10 different Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 technology owners, including Huawei, Panasonic, Philips, ZTE, KPN, Mitsubishi Electric, Orange, Aegis 11 SA (a Sisvel affiliate), SK Telecom, and Wilus (
January 22, 2026 Sisvel press release
). The program succeeds Sisvel’s Wi-Fi 6 patent pool and chiefly targets consumer electronics companies.
Wilus, a small South Korean research firm that has made numerous contributions to standards, launched a global wireless SEP enforcement campaign against ASUS last year. As well as filing complaints in the Oberlandesgericht München I (Munich Higher Regional Court) and the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC’s) Mannheim Local Division (LD), it targeted ASUS’s subsidiary Askey in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In January, the Munich I Regional Court granted Wilus a Germany-wide injunction against ASUS (
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Malikie Innovations, an affiliate of non-practicing entity (NPE) Key Patent Innovations, has been asserting patents that were previously owned by Blackberry—including standard-essential patents (SEPs)—in venues in the U.S., China, Europe, and India (
April 10, 2026
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SEP/FRAND
SEP/FRAND（2 篇）
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The Licensing Executives Society (LES) is a well-respected organization whose efforts to foster respectful debate are appreciated by many members of the IP community. Yesterday, the German, French, and Italian chapters of LES jointly organized, on the German Patent and Trademark Office’s premises, an event (
) to mark the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) third anniversary.
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