1) Premium: Atlas Global suffers another blow to global WiFi 6 SEP enforcement campaign as EPO revokes key patent

The European Patent Office has revoked the last of the WiFi standard-essential patents that Atlas Global asserted against TP-Link in Germany and the Unified Patent Court.

Earlier today we launched our law firm achievement lists (Honoring lawyers who secure outcomes in UPC and SEP cases). This is the first new achievement we’ve identified and routinely added after the original publication of this article to (a) Clifford Chance’s profile and (b) Section 3.07 of the UPC achievement lists (as the patent was being asserted in the UPC, where Clifford Chance got the related case stayed, which was a prior achievement).

2) Partly premium: Quantum-related patents increased fivefold in past decade, but high barriers to adoption: OECD-EPO report

While the number of international patent family applications has surged fivefold since 2014, 80% of companies in the sector do not have quantum as their main activity, and Europe faces notable challenges in commercializing its technology.

3) Free: OPPO fires back at ASUS in China: files first-known VVC SEP suit

OPPO only countersues. It has now sued ASUS over the alleged infringement of several of its Versatile Video Coding-related SEPs in the Shanghai IP Court, after the defendant brought its own wireless patent infringement claims in the Munich I Regional Court and UPC.