1) Free opinion piece: New EU Technology Transfer Guidelines take unclear positions on collective patent licensing, but won’t enable LNGs to get traction

The European Commision’s updated Technology Transfer Guidelines discuss patent pools and LNGs, and they are unlikely to matter as they are legally and economically flawed. They even contradict themselves.

2) Premium: For indirect infringement, the other component need not actually exist, says UPC Dusseldorf LD in filter cartridge case

The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD ruled that a filter cartridge can indirectly infringe a patent even if the complementary funnel is not yet on the market. It also clarified patent exhaustion.

3) Premium: Corning wins UPC injunction against TCL TVs over glass sheet patent, validating Hisense decision to settle just before CD ruling on validity

After getting LG and Hisense to settle, Corning has now won a UPC ruling against TCL over glass sheets used in TVs. The patent will expire in June, however, and TCL says its current products do not infringe.

4) Premium: Breaking FRAND? Samsung pushes back on Wilus’s alleged “bad faith” tactics

As Samsung pushes back against Wilus, a court in Texas is asked to decide whether bad-faith negotiations can remove FRAND limits on SEP remedies.

5) Free: Video streamers back Tesla against InterDigital, Avanci, as UKSC gears up for end of April pool rate determination hearing 

The UK Supreme Court is due to hear Tesla’s pool rate determination case against InterDigital and Avanci from April 27 to April 29. Today, it added The Fair Standards Alliance, ACT | The App Association, The Motion Picture Association, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, and the International Center for Law & Economics as intervenors…