1) Free content: BREAKING: Apple-backed ACT | The App Association withdraws ETSI membership application at General Assembly in face of resistance to astroturfing

ip fray called on ETSI members to vote against the application. Apparently ACT saw that it could not win the vote. Its founder & chairman and its current president were at the ETSI GA.

2) Premium content: USPTO Director Squires continues pro-patent enforcement march: IPR petition institutions remain low, submits first-ever public ITC comments

The United States Patent and Trademark Office’s low institution rate, together with its first-ever public comments to a United States International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation endorsing the ITC as a forum for adjudicating patents, underline Director John A. Squires’s pro-patent and pro-patent enforcement agenda.

3) Partly free content: Samsung retaliates against Oura’s ITC complaint with own E.D. Tex. patent infringement allegations against smart-ring maker who just defended core patent at PTAB

Last month, Oura brought an ITC complaint against Samsung, Reebok, and others. Now Samsung, whose pre-emptive DJ complaint went nowhere, is countersuing Oura.

4) Premium content: Transsion takes HEVC Advance license, settling multiple video patent enforcement disputes

The Chinese low-cost smartphone maker is the market leader in Africa and sells high volumes of phones in various (mostly emerging) markets.

5) LinkedIn (free): ip fray's tremendous momentum

Official LinkedIn stats show that ip fray added roughly twice as many new followers over the last 30 days as its closest rival, without a single sponsored post. And the momentum has been like that for a while. Since ip fray's launch in December 2023, no other website that regularly comments on patent litigation has added as many new followers as ip fray.

We will continue with our freemium (free + premium) model. Just the free portion of our content is a viable (and we'd like to think superior) alternative to some subscriptions, but if you want it all, get ip fray premium.