Today we have published an unprecedented 10 articles due to a flurry of significant patent news. Here are the latest ones:

1) Free: Hisense in trouble in Brazil as court imposes sanctions for litigation misconduct despite settlement through Access Advance pool license

The Rio de Janeiro State Court decided to pursue sanctions against Hisense regardless of a settlement after which JVC no longer asked for them.

2) Premium (except summary): UPC’s Hague LD grants Abbott two preliminary injunctions, assumes long-arm jurisdiction (Spain) over German defendants, clarifies urgency requirement

The Unified Patent Court’s Hague LD has provided clarifications on long-arm jurisdiction and urgency that have applicabiliy beyond these two cases.

3) Free: UPC orders Amazon, InterDigital to comment on this week’s UK antisuit hearing; witnesses may be sworn in, penalties could follow

The Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division makes it clear that the InterDigital v. Amazon injunction protecting its own proceedings covers not only an interim license, but also a post-trial decision.

4) Premium: TSMC patent filing strategy: general decline, “all-in” on U.S., “token presence” in Germany

Data exported from Patsnap reveals that Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC has filed more than half of its patents in the U.S. over the past two decades, while filing barely any in Europe, and gradually less and less in China and South Korea.

5) Free: BREAKING: UPC Dusseldorf LD gets second panel: Dr. Bérénice Thom will preside over it

What we deduced from juidicial appointments in December has been confirmed.

6) Free: SIM IP, Garden Intel merge: form $150 million IP monetization platform

The companies are building a “defensive moat” around the financialization of innovation that manual operators cannot penetrate, Garden’s CEO said about the deal.

7) Premium: Lenovo settles long-running U.S. USB-C patent infringement dispute

Lenovo and IT and cloud communications firm Universal Connectivity Technologies have settled a three-year patent infringement dispute that spanned the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

And three earlier articles (see the previous emails) on the Munich SEP injunction against Renault, two upcoming UPC long-arm appellate hearings, and Amazon no longer defending cloud customers against video patent infringement claims.