Torres Talks Trade Podcast- Episode 12- ZTE & BIS Enforcement
This Week in FCPA-Episode 106 - the Back in the (FCPA) Saddle Again edition
This is the fourth issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that highlights developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed to be...more
On November, 22, 2024, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) delivered a landmark ruling in Panasonic v. Oppo, setting a significant precedent in the realm of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and...more
This marks the first issue of WilmerHale’s FRAND Quarterly: Navigating the Global SEP Landscape, a bulletin that will highlight developments about the licensing, litigation, and regulation of patents that are or are claimed...more
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - CYWEE GROUP LTD. v. ZTE (USA) INC., LG ELECTRONICS INC. [OPINION] (2021-1855, 1/18/2023) (Prost, Hughes, and Stoll) - Prost, J. The Court affirmed the Patent Trial and...more
In INVT SPE LLC v. ITC, the Federal Circuit affirmed an International Trade Commission (ITC) decision that held INVT’s patent claims were not essential to the LTE cellular communications standard. According to the court, INVT...more
On July 16, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rendered its seminal decision in Huawei v. ZTE. In its decision, the ECJ provided fundamental guidance for the licensing and enforcement of standard essential patents...more
In a series of decisions, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit continued its trend of strict adherence to § 1400(b) when analyzing proper venue for patent infringement actions under the Supreme Court of the United...more
The Federal Circuit issued a trio of decisions this month further clarifying the application of the patent venue statute in the post-TC Heartland era. ...more
On May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court fundamentally narrowed patent venue by unanimously holding in TC Heartland that patent holders must follow the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b), which requires suing (1) “where the...more
Since the Supreme Court's decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC last year, there have been hundreds of district court cases that have determined (or reconsidered) whether venue was proper. ...more
In a pending mandamus petition, the Federal Circuit signaled that it will address the issue of which party bears the burden of proof when venue is challenged in a patent infringement action. In re ZTE (USA), No. 2018-113...more
The 2015 Changes to the Federal Rules Matter for Your Patent Case and Tech Business: Getting in the Courthouse Door Just Got Tougher - It used to be that a complaint for patent infringement would survive a motion to...more