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ByteDance has faced plenty of patent infringement complaints in the United States in recent years. Litigation involving standard-essential patents (SEPs) has been rarer for the Chinese tech company, though one high-profile example is its ongoing, multi-jurisdiction dispute with Velos Media over High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) patents (
February 13, 2026
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It is understandable that patent litigation firms (including litigation-oriented patent attorneys) in countries like France and Italy are
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about the sky-high percentage of Unified Patent Court cases filed in Germany.
Even though the distribution of European patent infringement lawsuits was not much different prior to the UPC (and to some extent mirrors the countries of origin of European patents), the problem is that the new system, quite obviously, leads to
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Via Licensing Alliance (Via) established its Voice Codec patent pool almost 18 months ago, offering licenses to multiple patents underpinning speech-coding standards, including Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) and Immersive Voice and Audio Services (IVAS) (
December 10, 2024
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Last month, a Brazilian court stayed an injunction obtained by IP Bridge affiliate Sun Patent Trust against Geely in Brazil (
April 24, 2026
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: Apple has generally been associated with defendant-friendly positions in patent policy debates and has not brought patent litigation, except for retaliatory purposes, in more than a decade.
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Apple has signed a deal with Animato, a California-based company known for developing avatar software for video chats and AI tutoring applications, according to a disclosure published through the European Commission’s
Digital Markets Act (DMA) acquisition database
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A.L.M. Holdings and Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions Inc are the joint owners of U.S. patents relating to warm-mix asphalt paving methods and compositions.
In 2008, they licensed certain rights under several of those patents to an exclusive licensee
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, Ingevity, granting it an “exclusive”, “royalty-bearing, worldwide license” to “manufacture, have manufactured, import, use, sell, offer to sell and otherwise commercialize” licensed products.
The decision politely acknowledges the USPTO-DOJ submission, but there is no indication that the Statement of Interest moved the needle in this case before this judge.
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Last fall, non-practicing entity (NPE) Collision Communications won a $445M damages verdict against Samsung in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (
October 14, 2025