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Facebook Wins Current Round In A Telecommunication Patent Fight Against Unilock 2017 LLC

Recently, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has sided with Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc., and its subsidiary WhatsApp, LLC over Uniloc 2017, LLC in cross-appeals from two IPRs (inter partes reviews). The issue revolved around the asserted patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,724,622, and separately for a similar U.S. Patent […]

Media Trial- An Injustice to Fair Trial

Introduction When a case is in the progress of its judicial proceedings and no judgment has been provided by any judicial authority and an individual views a story or reads an article related to that issue after which he makes a perception solely on the basis of what he saw and read and starts seeing […]

Misconceived interpretation of Section 7, POCSO

Introduction The POCSO Act seeks to punish people involved in sexual offenses against children and is a gender-neutral law, that is it recognizes both girl and a boy can be victims of sexual offenses unlike Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code which only recognizes offenses against women. It not only comprehends penetrative sexual assault […]

LG Display Settles Dispute, Enters into Agreement with Solas OLED

A longstanding multi-jurisdictional patent dispute has finally been settled by the parties concerned. Solas OLED Ltd. (“Solas”), an Irish company that specializes in OLED technologies has settled its long patent dispute with LG and Sony. Some time back, Solas instituted patent infringement actions against major companies such as LG Electronics, LG Display, Sony Corporation (as […]

Mad Dogg Athletics institutes patent infringement suit against Peloton Interactive

Mad Dogg Athletics Inc., a U.S based company that markets among others, popular indoor cycling brand Spinning®, has instituted a lawsuit against Peloton Interactive, Inc., a major U.S. based exercise equipment manufacturing company with digital platform for infringing its patents. The suit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District […]

Twinstrand Biosciences Licenses Patented DNA Sequencing Technology To Foundation Medicine

Recently TwinStrand Biosciences entered into an worldwide non-exclusive agreement to sublicense its DNA sequencing technology to Foundation Medicine. TwinStrand Biosciences is a Bellevue, Washington based company working in the field of DNA sequencing technologies. Foundation Medicine is a US based company involved in the development and manufacture of profiling assays based on cutting-edge sequencing technologies. […]

Patent License Dispute Between Ericsson And Samsung

Recently, Swedish telecom company Ericsson has filed a lawsuit in the US against South Korean company Samsung for breach of contractual commitments and failure to negotiate the patent licensing and payment terms in good faith, essentially under FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-discriminatory) terms. In the suit, Ericsson is also looking for a declaratory ruling that […]

SC Allows Predatory Pricing Probe Against Uber

The Supreme Court recently dismissed an appeal filed by Uber India, thereby giving a green signal to Competition Appellate Tribunal to initiate an investigation into allegations of abuse of dominant power by Uber in the National Capital Region. Timeline of the events:   In 2015, Meru – a radio taxi service business –approached the Competition […]

Clash of the Start Ups: GrabOn Wins Over GrabOnRent

GrabOn– the Hyderabad-based affiliate e-commerce start up–has successfully won a trademark infringement suit filed against GrabOnRent – a  Bengaluru-based product rental start up.  The lawsuit was filed by GrabOn before the Delhi High Court, on the grounds of misusing the former’s goodwill and causing confusion amongst consumers due to deceptively similar brand names.   GrabOn […]