Huge antitrust verdict against Takeda over patent settlement; Umicore interview; SEP news involving Acer, ASUS, SIM IP, Malikie

1) Premium: Pharma giant Takeda ordered to pay over $884 million in damages in Amitiza class action suit: patent litigation settlement was anticompetitive, jury finds

Takeda has said it already plans to “vigorously” appeal the decision, which found its 2014 deal with competitor Par Pharmaceutical to drop its challenge to its AMITIZA patents and delay its generic entry by seven years, anticompetitive.

2) Free (and short): Acer, ASUS want “stay of stay” against Nokia in UK; appeals court clarifies arbitration scope, but accepts wiggle room for arbitrators

Acer and ASUS have proven to be leave-no-stone-unturned types of defendants to Nokia’s video patent assertions.

3) Free: SIM IP acquires Alibaba video coding patents despite LOT Network membership

SIM IP has acquired 126 patent assets from Alibaba covering video coding and data infrastructure technologies tied to AV1, AV2, and VCM. 

4) Premium: UPC to become “default choice” for patent litigation across many industries, says Umicore Head of IP

The UPC is a “hugely important development in the global IP landscape” and is proving to be an “excellent forum” for patent disputes, Umicore’s head of IP, Sean Alexander, told ip fray in an interview at the third annual IP Dealmakers Europe. Umicore has filed one infringement case in the UPC and is considering filing…

5) Free (and short): ASUS settles global patent litigation with Wilus, Huawei, Philips: takes Sisvel Wi-Fi Multimode pool license

ASUS has become the latest licensee to sign up to Sisvel’s Wi-Fi Multimode standard-essential patent program, days before a potential bench ruling from the Munich I Regional Court in an SEP dispute with Sisvel licensor Philips.

6) Premium: Malikie Innovations sues TCL over Wi-Fi, AV1 patents in Eastern District of Texas, hints at future request for injunction

Malikie Innovations claims that TCL has not acted in “good faith” when it comes to FRAND negotiations.

7) Bonus item: InterDigital announces deal with unnamed payment terminal maker - press release

We just wanted to share press release with you as payment terminal makers increasingly license wireless patents, and we routinely report on the related deals and lawsuits.

8) In case you missed it: Decoding BYD’s patent footprint: from stack control to scale, from foreign bets to policy friction

BYD used to look, from outside China, like a distant domestic EV champion. It no longer does. This study mines BYD’s patent-family data for the underlying strategy, not just the counts. The result is a map of stack control, foreign bets, and policy-constrained markets.

We will increasingly also publish data-driven analysis. The following charts are from the article on BYD's portfolio: