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Herr, Alymov & Nothmann on Whether the UPC Can Set Global FRAND Rates Jochen Herr, Nikita Alymov, and Martin Nothmann have published an article titled Can the UPC set global FRAND rates? , 1/2026 GRUR Patent 18...

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05.03.2026 20:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

EU Requests WTO Panel to Determine Legality of Global FRAND Determinations in China February was an unusually busy month for me, and my week-long bout with COVID didn't help, so I am behind schedule in blogging about rec...

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02.03.2026 00:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Judge Albright’s Order in BMW v. Onesta As noted on this blog previously (see here and here ), in December Judge Alan Albright (W.D. Tex.) issued a temporary restraining order, la...

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23.02.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Aggregate Royalties for Cellular SEPs Nadia Soboleva and John Hayes have published an article titled Aggregate Royalty for Cellular SEPs in Recent Court Decisions , 11/2025 GRUR ...

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12.02.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New EC Study on IPRED There already has been a lot going on in the IP world this year, especially in relation to SEPs in the U.K., Germany, and China; and unfor...

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09.02.2026 23:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Johnson on Assessments of Patent Damages in the U.K. Phillip Johnson has published an interesting article titled The assessment of damages in patent infringement: General Tire and a history...

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30.01.2026 19:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

German Federal Supreme Court Rejects HMD’s Appeal In 2024, the European Commission filed an amicus brief in a SEP case, VoiceAge v. HMD , urging the Munich Higher Regional Court to requ...

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27.01.2026 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gervais on Territoriality and Global FRAND Rate-Setting Daniel Gervais, one of the world’s leading experts on the TRIPS Agreement, has published a very interesting article titled The Principle of ...

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20.01.2026 17:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Judge Albright Enjoins Onesta from Proceeding in Munich with Claim for the Infringement of U.S. Patents In December, I noted that , at BMW’s request, Judge Albright (W.D. Tex.) had entered a TRO prohibiting Onesta from litigating claims for the...

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14.01.2026 18:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UPC Court of Appeal Reverses Moral Prejudice Damages Award The case is Bhagat Textile Engineers v. Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KG , decided by Panel 1b of the UPC Court of Appeal on December 9, 2025....

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08.01.2026 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Federal Circuit Reverses Injunction, Reverses and Remands on Willfulness I resume blogging this week with a post about the Federal Circuit’s December 17 precedential decision in Wonderland Switzerland AG v. Evenfl...

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05.01.2026 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

EWHC: Acer, ASUS, and Hisense Are Entitled to Declarations of Interim Licenses Mr. Justice Mellor's decision in Acer, Inc. et al. v. Nokia Technologies Oy is here . I have grading to complete, after which I w...

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18.12.2025 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Judge Albright Issues Antisuit TRO Relating to Assertion in Munich of Claims for the Infringement of U.S. Patents This dispute is reported this morning on Law360 and on ip fray . When BSH v Electrolux came out earlier this year (see my blog post ...

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Criminal Contempt in Munich Florian Mueller has published a post on ip fray concerning a December 10 decision of the Munich I Regional Court, ordering the general ...

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16.12.2025 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AIPPI 2025 Study Question Q296: Preliminary Injunctions: Requirements for compensating damage suffered by defendant One of the topics I discuss at some length in other forthcoming book, Wrongful Patent Assertion: A Comparative Law and Economics Analysis ...

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15.12.2025 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UPC Court of Appeal Invokes Proportionality in Approving Injunction Carve-Out In the joined appeals in Meril Italy Srl et al. v. Edwards Lifesciences Corp ., UPC__CoA__A464/2024 et al. (Nov. 25, 2025) , Panel 1 of the ...

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08.12.2025 21:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Alba, Helmers and Love on Octane Fitness’ Effect on PAEs and Innovation Tommaso Alba, Christian Helmers, and Brian J. Love have posted a paper on ssrn titled A Tale of Trolls and Fees: The Role of Fee-Shiftin...

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04.12.2025 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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01.12.2025 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My Book "Remedies in Intellectual Property Law" Is Now Available for Pre-Order My book Remedies in Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar Publ. 2026) is now available for pre-order. Publication expected sometime in ...

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01.12.2025 00:39 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Müller-Stoy and Lepschy on BSH v. Electrolux Tilman Müller-Stoy and Paul Lepschy have published an article titled Practical Implications of BSH v Electrolux for resolving global patent ...

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24.11.2025 18:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Conference on the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive Tomorrow and Friday, the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg will be presenting a conference titled Equali...

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19.11.2025 13:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Federal Circuit Vacates Lost Profits Award The case is Inventist Inc. v. Ninebot Inc. (USA) , nonprecedential opinion (released last Friday) by Judge Dyk, joined by Judges Hughes and ...

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18.11.2025 15:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

EWCA Vacates Declaration of Interim License in Samsung v. ZTE I was taking a blogging break ever since this decision was handed down on October 31, so I hadn’t written anything about it yet. By way ...

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17.11.2025 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damages for Industrial Property Infringement in France Grégoire Desrousseaux, Mayeul Ottaviani, and Louis Jabert have published an article titled L’évaluation du prejudice de la contrefaçon d...

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30.10.2025 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Judge Connolly on Willful Infringement U.S. District Court Judge Colm Connolly’s October 14 opinion in Inari Medical, Inc. v. Inquis Medical, Inc. , has received attention on both...

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27.10.2025 14:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The EWHC’s Ex Parte Order Against InterDigital As noted here two weeks ago, following reports on ip fray, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court and the Munich Regio...

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24.10.2025 00:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jüngst and Schroeder on Damages for Wrongly-Issue Preliminary Injunctions in the UPC I commend to readers’ attention an article by Oliver Jan Jüngst and Moritz Schroeder titled ֦ PI damages ֞ : Revocation of provisional ...

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20.10.2025 16:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Merges on Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties Rob Merges’ paper Lost Profits and Reasonable Royalties: Two Distinct Remedies for Two Separate Harms , 40 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 323 (2025),...

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16.10.2025 18:19 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Harvard JOLT Issue on IP Remedies Volume 38, Issue 3 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology is titled “The Role of Intellectual Property Remedies in the Global Innovation...

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14.10.2025 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bonadio and Solanki on Interim FRAND Licenses Enrico Bonadio and Arjun Solanki have just published The emergence of FRAND interim licences , 47 EIPR 592 (2025). The article provides an...

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09.10.2025 15:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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