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Avanci launched its EV Charger program in late 2023 to provide pool licenses to standard-essential patents (SEPs) relevant to connected electric vehicle (EV) charging systems (
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In November 2025, Ericsson launched a global enforcement campaign against China’s Transsion, the world’s fourth-largest smartphone maker, over 4G and 5G-related standard-essential patents (SEPs). It sued the Chinese supplier in Brazil, India, Nigeria, and three venues in the UPC (
November 14, 2025
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Ericsson’s cellular standard-essential patent (SEP) enforcement against China-based Transsion is a global campaign, spanning a number of countries, among them Morocco (
December 19, 2025
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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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In September 2021, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, acquired by Pfizer for $68 billion in 2009 to expand its portfolio in biotechnology and vaccines, sued AstraZeneca in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware over the alleged infringement of two patents related to breast-cancer drug Nerlynx. The latter is produced by Puma Biotechnology with a license to Pfizer’s patents, and Wyeth specifically alleged that AstraZeneca’s lung-cancer treatment Tagrisso infringed on those patents. Last year alone, the drug helped AstraZeneca rake in over $7.2 billion in global revenue. In May 2024, Wyeth won a $107.5 million jury verdict – only to have it reversed by Judge Matthew Kennelly a few months later through a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL). The judge held that the patents lacked valid written descriptions of their inventions. Wyeth filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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In December 2024, Promosome LLC, an exclusive licensee of The Scripps Research Institute, sued BioNTech and Pfizer entities at the UPC Munich Local Division (LD) over the infringement of
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In May 2023, Loyal-T Systems LLC filed complaint in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, accusing American Express Company (Amex) of infringing patents covering management of customer loyalty programs. In October 2024 Amex successfully moved for the case to be transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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: Nixu FL IP Protection, a SIM IP subsidiary, has been actively enforcing patents acquired from FusionLayer’s cloud networking portfolio. The portfolio, acquired in April 2025, comprises more than 30 patent assets covering cloud-native automation, DNS security, software-defined IP address management, and dynamic network provisioning. Earlier this year, Nixu FL filed a UPC infringement action against Infoblox over a different patent from the same portfolio, marking the start of a broader European enforcement campaign (
February 1, 2026
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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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Gallium nitride (GaN) technology is playing an increasingly crucial role in making cleaner, more efficient, and sustainable energy, as the world shifts away from fossil fuel power and traditional silicon-based technology. It has a broad range of applications, including renewable energy systems, data centers, industrial automation, and electric vehicles (EVs). U.S.-based Wolfspeed, previously known as Cree, Inc., is one of the country’s leading manufacturers of wide bandgap semiconductors (materials with a larger energy gap that enable high-temperature, high-voltage, and high-frequency applications). It specializes in silicon carbide (SiC) materials, GaN-based transistors, and SiC-based Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field-effect Transistors (MOSFETs) and modules. Some of Wolfspeed’s products are also used in military communications, radar, satellite, and telecommunications.
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The 2026 men’s association football World Cup is currently taking place in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, from June 11 until July 19, 2026. The tournament is run by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) with various partners, including official hospitality provider On Location Events LLC.
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On Location has been sued for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware by TicketMatrix LLC.
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This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of June 29, 2026.
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