UK antisuit threat against UPC; Mannheim LD mocked; Delhi HC narrows SEP royalty base; display patent news

1) Free: UK judge makes thinly-veiled antisuit threat against UPC; Advisory Committee chair mocks Mannheim LD, openly disagrees with UPC President

Today’s LESI event in Munich showed deep divisions within the UPC ecosystem over the subject of docket distribution, and even deeper ones between UK and continental European courts concerning patent rulings with cross-border effect.

2) Premium: Delhi High Court overturns Philips’ DVD SEP win, finds ‘insufficient evidence’ of essentiality or infringement, narrows royalty base

The Delhi High Court appellate bench has reversed Philips’s landmark DVD SEP win, finding no proof of essentiality, infringement, or FRAND rates. The exhaustion defense saves the defendant.

3) Premium: TCL China Star Optoelectronics acquires Japan Display patents

Japan Display is diversifying into the sensor and semiconductor packaging markets, and is divesting thousands of non-core patents as part of the process.

4) Premium: LG Electronics sued in Eastern District of Texas by Fortress-linked NPE wielding former TCL China Star Optoelectronics patents

It appears to be the first time that China Star Optoelectronics has divested patents to an NPE that have subsequently been asserted.