Nokia gets new CEO: Justin Hotard leaves Intel Corporation to replace Pekka Lundmark No change to patent licensing business expected. This is about the product business. $NOK

Unified Patent Court Roundup (1 week): no second revocation counterclaim by same party against same patent; generally uneventful period

Security requirement of $670M contradicts Amazon downplaying impact of Nokia #patent injunction against Prime Video, streaming products $AMZN $NOK

Nokia wins first-ever Germany-wide #patent injunction against Amazon Prime Video streaming service after three wins over Amazon devices The Dusseldorf Regional Court held a Nokia non-SEP infringed.

New SEP lawsuits filed against Xiaomi Technology over ASUSTeK patents in Munich: sources ASUSTeK has an active outbound licensing program. Samsung, LG and Lenovo have previously been sued by ASUSTeK and/or its licensing partners.

“Good leadership is like conducting an orchestra”: LESI president and TactoTek general counsel, IP licensing head Sonja London

U.S. International Trade Commission staff recommends throwing out Lenovo complaint against Ericsson: no infringement, thus no U.S. import ban

Erich Spangenberg’s soon-to-be-public SIM IP buys #patent portfolio worth hundreds of millions in haptics and extended reality (XR) from Ultraleap Ultraleap's hand-tracking technology has been compared to the Minority Report movie with Tom Cruise.

Two patent licensing firms just launched a campaign "revealing the ways certain tech giants, specifically Apple ... have undermined and underpaid innovators, both large and small, on whose critical technology their smartphones—and bottom line—rely."

Unified Patent Court, German and other courts should thwart UK ‘interim license’ imperialism with ex parte preliminary injunctions over any affected patents This article discusses four different ways in which courts could give patent holders leverage.

InterDigital $IDCC sues The Walt Disney Company (including its Hulu and ESPN+ subsidiaries) in U.S., Unified Patent Court, Germany, Brazil over multimedia standard-essential patents Streamers are increasingly expected to take SEP licenses.

The EU has much to learn from Sweden and Finland about innovation — but their model is not scalable EU-wide and no answer to U.S. superdominance

Interim license imperialism: Lord Justice Arnold becomes a threat to UK relations with the United States, Europe, other countries and regions

UPC Roundup (1 week): bad week for plaintiffs, including EPO revoking patent-in-suit in accelerated proceedings

Nokia signed patent license agreement with Chinese mobile device maker Transsion (African market leader) — without litigation Transsion recently settled with Qualcomm as a Unified Patent Court order further confirmed this week.

In leaked strategy paper on competitiveness, European Commission encourages more #patent licensing, participation in standard-setting The EC's Competitiveness Compass understates the problems, but it does contain key admissions and some valid ideas.

Unified Patent Court Roundup (1 week) and update on ip fray subscriptions Roundup items include amicus curiae briefs in the UPC (not accepted), a pending request for an injunction extending to the UK, and other developments.

European Commission may have to bring World Trade Organization complaint against UK: appeals court says Lenovo may get interim license from Ericsson, schedules urgent hearing for February 18

Unified Patent Court Roundup (4 weeks): appellate decisions, final judgments, settlements, anti-antisuit injunctions, case management and more There are many items in this roundup that go beyond our articles and LinkedIn posts during the relevant period.

Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal: damages claims can be brought in UPC based on national court ruling on merits; damages may predate UPC start Fives v. Reel: a highly impactful precedential ruling.