New Disney injunction in Brazil; Via's DRAM program, new cloud media pool for GenAI; litigation and other news from different jurisdictions

1) Premium: Brazilian judge grants IBEX merits-based PI against Disney over HEVC patent: threatens Disney+ suspension through app stores, device manufacturers

A Rio de Janeiro judge has found that Disney’s HEVC encoders infringe one of IBEX’s patents and has ordered compliance within 15 days, or it will face a rare order directed at app stores and device makers to suspend Disney+ in Brazil.

2) Free: Via signs founding licensors to data center DRAM program, announces new cloud media pool for genAI

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The new program will offer a comprehensive license for the “back-end” of AI-generated media, covering multiple standards including AAC, AVC, and Opus.

3) Premium: Telefónica successfully defends SEP suit: WiLAN PAE fails to convince German appeals court of infringement

WiLAN patent assertion entity Wireless Future Technologies, Inc. has lost an appeal it filed in the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe in a case against Telefónica over the alleged infringement of one of the PAE’s key LTE-related patents. The case targets Telefónica base stations originally manufactured by Huawei.

4) Free: Canon, Huawei, Oppo, and Sony team up with Tulip to license 125,000+ imaging patents

Tulip has become a recognized name in the patent monetization industry thanks to its battery licensing program with LGES and Panasonic.

5) Premium: Solar patent wars: GameChange hits back at Nextpower in District of Delaware over solar tracking technology

The battle opens another front in the complex web of patent disputes over solar energy technologies.

6) Premium: Yangtze Memory urges U.S. district court to lift stay on three-year 3D NAND patent infringement litigation against Micron

Every additional month of delay erodes YMTC’s patents’ commercial value, the company has argued, as it asks the Northern District of California to lift a stay in a patent infringement case YMTC filed almost three years ago.

7) Premium: Sol IP sues AGCO over 4G SEPs in Munich: enforcement now hits second farm equipment maker

Sol IP has sued AGCO in Munich over the same two 4G SEPs it used against BYD, extending a pattern of cellular SEP campaigns that has already worked its way through cars and trucks.

8) Premium: China’s top court reinforces human-inventor rule, scope of human-contribution standard likely to be tested in future litigation

China’s top court has reissued the rule that AI itself cannot be an inventor and expressly requires a natural person to make a creative contribution to an AI-assisted invention, bringing an approach already taken by the CNIPA into the judicial framework.

9) Premium: Honor acquires LG video and image coding portfolio, expands its presence in SEP landscape

The Chinese mobile device brand has also recently become a licensor to Avanci’s vehicle cellular programs, and a licensee to Access Advance’s VVC pool.