1) Premium: Swiss patent court offers expedited nullity proceedings for use in foreign jurisdictions, including UPC

The Federal Patent Court in Switzerland has announced that nullity declaration actions brought against patents that form the basis of infringement suits will be expedited.

2) Free summary, otherwise premium: Some direct patent infringement “acceptable price” for expediting competition:  U.S. Solicitor General urges Supreme Court to review skinny labeling and generic drug access

United States Solicitor General D. John Sauer has filed a petition urging the Supreme Court to intervene in a long-running drug patent infringement case in which he alleges the Federal Circuit failed to apply the “skinny labelling” (section viii) pathway, which allows the entry of generics that carve out patented uses but otherwise duplicate the…

3) Premium: Express Mobile hits major setbacks in patent enforcement campaign against Meta, Shopify, after recent $170M trial win over GoDaddy

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued rulings putting a dent in Express Mobile’s patent enforcement campaigns against Shopify and Meta less than a month after the non-practicing entity celebrated a $170 million win against GoDaddy.

4) LinkedIn: Federal Circuit throws out more mandamus petitions against IPR denials

Like the appeals court stated in last month's Motorola case, complaints over administrative procedure would have to be brought in district court.

5) LinkedIn: Audi's patent license from OPPO unsurprising in light of prior deal with Volkswagen corporate parent

And in any event, the same cellular SEPs had previously been licensed through Avanci.

6) LinkedIn: Low number of European quantum patent filings due to lack of scale-up opportunities

Only 6% of all patent filings in quantum computing come from Europe, which has many companies, but those leading the race are based elsewhere.

7) LinkedIn: Appeal of music rights collecting society GEMA's case against OpenAI to be heard by same Munich appellate panel as patent cases

Plaintiff GEMA prevailed on almost all counts, but is pursuing its personality rights claim on appeal. OpenAI's appeal will follow any moment, if it hasn't already. The matter has been assigned to the 6th Civil Senate of the Munich Higher Regional Court under Presiding Judge Lars Meinhardt.