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Last year, Via Licensing Alliance (Via) announced plans to establish several patent licensing programs around semiconductor technologies (
September 25, 2025
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Last year, Via Licensing Alliance (Via) announced plans to establish several patent licensing programs around semiconductor technologies (
September 25, 2025
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The Walt Disney Company has faced increasing patent enforcement activity relating to streaming and video technologies in multiple jurisdictions. InterDigital previously obtained preliminary injunctions (PIs) against Disney in Brazil over streaming patents (
September 11, 2025
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The dispute is part of a wider global patent licensing and enforcement dispute between ZTE and Samsung over 5G patents:
The holding of a preliminary injunction (PI) in favor of ZTE was set aside by the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Appeals (
February 4, 2026
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Dr. Peter Georg Picht
is an IP and competition law professor at Zurich University and a fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. He is also of counsel with the law firm
Schellenberg Wittmer
and has been working in patent law research and practice for more than 15 years, with a particular focus on SEPs (standard-essential patents) and FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory).
He is a regular expert in court and arbitration cases, as well as a regular advisor to policy makers, such as the European Commission, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), and the German and Swiss governments. Some examples of his work in this area are when he advised the EU Commission on the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the SEP Regulation, and the IP licensing Block Exemption Regulation (also known as the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation).