Yesterday, InterDigital prevailed in its Delaware jury trial against ZTE where the jury found that ZTE’s accused phones infringe each asserted claims of InterDigital’s U.S. Patent Nos. 7,190,966, 7,286,847, and 8,380,244. The verdict form also shows that the jury found none of the asserted claims to be invalid as obvious. The jury was not asked
Apple does not infringe Golden Bridge’s alleged WCDMA standard essential patent (Golden Bridge v. Apple)
Yesterday a jury returned a verdict finding that Apple does not infringe Golden Bridge’s patent alleged to be essential to the WCDMA standard. The verdict thus did not reach the royalty-rate issue that was interesting for a few reasons.
Excluded FRAND Expert Testimony. As discussed in our May 30, 2014 post, Magistrate Judge
Jury finds BlackBerry did not infringe NXP’s alleged standard essential patents (NXP v. BlackBerry)
Yesterday, a Florida jury returned a verdict that BlackBerry did not infringe NXP’s patents alleged to be essential to the IEEE 802.11 WiFi and JEDEC eMMC standards and that the asserted patent claims were invalid. The role of BlackBerry’s standard essential patent defenses is not clear from the record, though it appears to have been
Jury returns RAND-royalty rate of 0.19 percent of WiFi chip sale price (Realtek v. LSI)
Yesterday, the jury in the Realtek v. LSI case before Judge Whyte returned a verdict finding that a RAND royalty for LSI’s two patents alleged essential to IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard would total about 0.19% of the total sales prices of Realtek’s WiFi chips (0.12% for one patent plus 0.07% for the other). This RAND
Jury finds Motorola breached RAND obligations, awards $14.5M in damages to Microsoft
This afternoon the RAND breach of contract case between Microsoft and Motorola went to the jury, and this evening — after just a few short hours of deliberation — the jury came back with its verdict. According to Curtis Cartier (@curtis_cartier on Twitter), a freelance journalist who attended the trial, the jury found