1) UPC roundup: timeliness of sealing requests; non-novelty and non-inventiveness over same art; Samsung defends twice; new cases (also OpenAI)

2) Access Advance reveals previously unknown video streaming patent pool licensors: OPPO, Siemens

The heads of IP at ByteDance, OPPO, MediaTek, Dolby, Tencent and Kuaishou have now issued statements on why they joined the patent program, which now boasts 31 licensors.

3) Litigation funding increasingly “unnecessarily” complex because of predatory litigation funding myths, SIM IP director says

Firms like Sauvegarder Investment Management can help patentees assert their assets in this increasingly expensive system, but would prefer to buy the patents that they enforce first, SIM IP’s Jennifer Burdman said on an online panel today.

4) ai fray: OpenAI slapped with serious patent lawsuit for first time as French company attacks C2PA anti-(deep)fake news mechanism in eight countries

KeeeX is asserting a patent obtained by a French university and a French research institute. If it indeed reads on the C2PA standard, there are various other major defendants. While ip fray's article on this new lawsuit presupposed a thorough understanding of patent litigation, particularly in the UPC, ai fray's audience has a different focus.