First posted on spicyip.com on August 20, 2020Banner image from here.Recently a German court, in a SEP / FRAND matter involving Nokia and Mercedes maker Daimler Motors, issued an injunction against Daimler for its infringement of Nokia’s SEP. See press release issued by the court here in German (you may choose to automatically translate the press release in English). Basically, Daimler had infringed Nokia’s patent EP2981103. This patent is related to Zadoff-Chu sequences. You might ask what is so great about Zadoff-Sequences: well they are the basic access signal in LTE. In particular, the patent uses ZC sequences in the preamble for random access (i.e. to connect the mobile unit to... Continue reading
In my previous blog post on the issue of anti - anti suit injunction, I had mentioned that InterDigital had filed an anti anti-suit injunction against Xiaomi at the Delhi High Court. Yesterday, the Delhi High Court issued its order against Xiaomi issuing the anti-anti suit injunction. See : InterDigitalvXiaomi.Judg.09102020.pdf 969 KB The Court ordered: I am of the view that a clear case, for grant of ad interim injunction, in terms of prayer (i) in para 33 of the present application, is made out.Para 33(i) of InterDigital's application is:“33. (i) Grant an injunction against the Defendant Nos. 1-8 in the present proceedings, restraining them from purs... Continue reading
In a matter brought by Xiaomi against InterDigital, a Chinese court just (September 23, 2020) issued an anti-suit injunction against InterDigital from pursuing matters pending in the Delhi High Court. InterDigital also stands to be fined up to one million yuan per day if it were to violate the order. InterDigital has filed an anti anti-suit injunction application at the DHC on 29.09.2020.Any pursuit of these matters by InterDigital before the DHC is likely to evoke a per day fine by Chinese courts. This means that the entire matter (FRAND adjudication) cannot be pursued not just injunctive relief because the same is intrinsically coupled to InterDigital's demands at the DHC. In ... Continue reading