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In the past couple of months, patent assertion entity (PAE) Lonestar Crystal Display LLC has filed infringement complaints in the United States District Court ofr the Eastern District of Texas, targeting LG Electronics (
May 18, 2026
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In January 2026, Tesla filed multiple petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of patents owned by Bulletproof Property Management LLC at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Bulletproof requested discretionary denial of all seven petitions, which Tesla opposed.
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The UPC’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) has made patent alternative dispute resolution (ADR) a live topic in Europe (
June 2, 2026 LinkedIn post by
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China has no PMAC equivalent. Its relevant pathways are more dispersed: mediation may be connected to courts, administrative handling, or professional mediation organizations; arbitration depends on party agreement and domestic institutional capacity; and WIPO-linked services provide a foreign-facing institutional layer for some cross-border IP disputes.
The
OxFora 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
, this year entitled “The Global Chess Game: International Patent Strategy in a Fragmented World”, is to take place in the DPMA Forum in Munich (as well as online) on June 23 and 24, 2026.
The topics covered will include injunctions and how they reshape bargaining power and global licensing dynamics, how ASIs and interim licences have become tactical tools, long-arm jurisdiction in patent disputes after
BSH Hausgeräte v. Electrolux
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Innoscience has opened a Chinese front in the multi-jurisdictional gallium nitride (GaN) patent dispute with Infineon (
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Based on how a hearing in the UPC’s Mannheim Local Division (LD) went early last month, we predicted that InterDigital would win an injunction against The Walt Disney Company’s streaming services (
May 5, 2026
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