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:
The Chongqing Intermediate People’s Court has issued several influential fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty determinations involving cellular standard-essential patents (SEPs), including its earlier OPPO v. Nokia decision and its more recent
ZTE v. Samsung
ruling (
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Hologic and Siemens Healthineers compete in breast-imaging hardware and are now in dispute before the UPC. Hologic, a U.S. medical technology company, owns
EP2352431
(“Method and system for controlling x-ray focal spot characteristics for tomosynthesis and mammography imaging”), which it has asserted against Siemens’s MAMMOMAT B.brilliant mammography system, marketed with Siemens’s “Flying Focal Spot” technology and launched at the end of September 2023.
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Nokia’s most recent major patent license deal to become known was the settlement with Geely (
May 21, 2026
ip fray
article
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The video patent licensing dispute between Amazon and InterDigital led to interjurisdictional friction, culminating in a recent hearing in the UPC’s Court of Appeal (CoA) (
May 28, 2026
ip fray
article
Opinion
And the Oscar goes to…
Well, this is not about an award, and it’s not like a linguist wouldn’t find anything to criticize about that one. But I really wish all German UPC divisions decided to
structure
and