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The willingness of UK judges to grant interim licenses and force patent holders to grant global licenses on terms deemed fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) by the English courts has raised concerns in different places. The Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Court of Appeal (CoA) held a hearing yesterday, and while it rejects interference, it is unclear how far it will go to effectively combat such overreach (
May 29, 2026
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Dolby has been actively enforcing video-codec patents in Brazil. Earlier this year, Dolby and IP Bridge brought separate patent infringement actions against Skyworth and related Brazilian entities concerning video technologies (
February 1, 2026
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The first version of our
initial analysis of the preliminary views of the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Court of Appeal (CoA) in
Amazon v. InterDigital
went live at 10:42 AM CEST. The first assessment was that the CoA’s preliminary views would benefit the UPC and its ecosystem, though we raised the concern that this would require the UPC to adopt the Munich I Regional Court’s pre-emptive anti-anti-anti-antisuit (AAAASI) approach. This is a follow-up to discuss why it is critical for the UPC to interpret anti-interference injuncftions (AIIs)
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Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Abiomed has been engaged in litigation with Maquet since 2016 over patents relating to intravascular blood pump technologies. Earlier this month, District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an order confirming that a rare “reverse doctrine of equivalents” (RDOE) defense was available to Abiomed, which does not dispute that its accused Impella product meets the literal terms of the patent claim asserted by Maquet (
May 7, 2026
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