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OPPO and Panasonic signed a global cross-license agreement in early 2025, after a stuttering negotiation process that saw the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Mannheim Local Division grant the transnational court’s first-ever injunction after considering an implementer’s arguments over fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms (
November 23, 2024
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Gallium nitride (GaN) technology manufacturers Innoscience and Infineon have been engaged in litigation over the infringement of their patents since March 2024. Their dispute now spans the U.S., Germany, and China. Infineon has had particular success in Germany – its home ground – where the Munich I Regional Court granted Infineon one ex parte preliminary injunction in June 2024 (
June 16, 2024
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Since acquiring competitor Via Licensing Alliance’s High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/Versatile Video Coding (VVC) pools in December and becoming the sole administrator of VVC and HEVC pools in the market (
December 15, 2025
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German supercomputer firm ParTec and its licensing agent BF exaQC, run by famous former patent litigator and patent monetizer (IPCom) Bernhard Frohwitter, sued Microsoft (in the U.S.) and NVIDIA (in the UPC) over supercomputer patents.
The UPC’s Munich Local Division (LD) sided with NVIDIA in one case (
March 11, 2026
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