Philips-Belkin, Broadcom-Renault, Microsoft-ParTec settlements; in-depth analysis of BYD's patenting strategy; IP Dealmakers Forum reports; and more

1) Free (short news piece): Via licensor Philips settles Qi dispute with Belkin; Renault takes patent license from Broadcom

Based on decisions by the UPC to close cases, two significant SEP disputes have apparently been settled: Philips-Belkin (a win for Via in all likelihood) and Broadcom-Renault.

2) Free (short news piece): Brazilian patent judge: “other jurisdictions cannot stop us”; ready to talk to judges in other jurisdictions “to cooperate, not to submit”

Judge Victor Torres sent out important message to judges in other jursidictions during the course of an Oxfirst webinar on Brazilian injunctions.

3) Premium: Munich appeals court lifts injunction against Deutsche Telekom fixed-line offering, clarifies approach to heterogeneous instrumentalities

The patent holder accused specific Deutsche Telekom offerings of infringement and differentiated between the network infrastructure products powering them. But the injunction was not tailored to particular setups, which would have left certain questions to the enforcement proceedings.

4) Premium; 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.

5) Premium: CureVac expands Spikevax patent fight to UPC with new action against Moderna in Hague LD

In a significant patent battle for mRNA vaccines, CureVac has now joined others in suing in the UPC, taking the dispute with Moderna, which started in Delaware, to the Hague LD.

6) Premium: The view from abroad: Korean companies have “urgent need” to revise U.S. strategies in face of evolving USPTO policy on inter partes reviews

The changes under Director John Squires are not going unnoticed in other major tech economies.

7) Free coverage from IP Dealmakers Forum: IP winners, litigation funding dangers and speaking the C-suite language: IP Dealmakers closing highlights

A debate on whether litigation funding is unjustifiably driving up the value of patents, advice for patent executives on how best to talk to the C-suite, and what makes a “winning” IP team were among the highlights of the third day of IP Dealmakers Europe.

8) Free coverage from IP Dealmakers Forum: SEP value transparency, AI lawyers, political tension: initial highlights from IP Dealmakers

The need for greater transparency in the value of standards, a debate on the increasing use of AI in patent litigation claims, and geopolitical considerations in IP enforcement were among the highlights of the first and second days of the third annual IP Dealmakers in London this week.

9) Premium: Nvidia, Western Digital among defendants as vertical chip designer MonolithIC 3D expands multi-district litigation campaign

After filing several U.S. infringement suits in recent months, MonolithIC 3D has just fired off another salvo involving a new set of semiconductor design patents.

10) Mostly free: Microsoft settles U.S. patent litigation with Bernhard Frohwitter’s ParTec over supercomputer technology ahead of Texas trial

The supercomputer patent lawsuit filed two years ago has been settled. For now, there are no signs of ParTec also having reached an agreement with NVIDIA, which is being sued in the UPC.