The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated an $81 million (approximately 581 million yuan) compensation ruling against Boeing last Thursday. The lawsuit accused Boeing of stealing trade secrets from electric aircraft startup Zunum Aero.

Transsion has faced multiple patent infringement lawsuits concerning HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) technology in Brazil and at the European Unified Patent Court (UPC).

U.S. biotechnology company Gilead has filed a new revocation lawsuit with the Unified Patent Court (UPC) targeting a patent owned by the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the People's Liberation Army (hereinafter referred to as the Academy). The patent may potentially interfere with the sale of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir. Gilead is currently on the offensive in Europe.

Several days prior to this lawsuit, Keeta filed a lawsuit against Didi's Brazilian subsidiary 99 in Brazil, accusing its food delivery app 99Food of attempting to restrict restaurants from partnering with more than two food delivery platforms.

The patent in question is EP3258692 (Method and Apparatus for Predicting Motion Vectors). According to the patent list published by the HEVC Advance patent pool, this patent has corresponding patent deployments in multiple countries, including China, France, and Belgium.

The core of Getty Images' allegations centers on Stability AI's unauthorized use of its extensive image library. Stability AI is renowned for its advancements in AI technology, particularly in the field of image generation. This dispute highlights the ongoing tension between traditional copyright holders and emerging tech companies leveraging machine learning technology.

The lawsuit is based on Partec's European patent [EP 3 614 263], which pertains to microprocessors used in AI supercomputers and their collaboration to provide AI functionality. The European Patent Office (EPO) granted the patent with unitary effect in July, and Partec and BF exaQC AG filed the lawsuit a few days later.

On August 7, 2025, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of South Korea filed a lawsuit against Hisense Group and its Dutch distributor in the Düsseldorf Local Court (LD) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) over patent EP3258692 (“Method for Deriving Predicted Motion Vectors and Related Devices”).

According to Infineon's report, it holds approximately 450 GaN patent families and acquired Canadian company GaN Systems for US$830 million in 2023. In 2024, Infineon filed multiple patent infringement lawsuits against Innosea at the Munich Local Court. On June 12, the Munich Local Court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Innosea from displaying the alleged products at PCIM Europe 2024, a globally renowned electronics industry exhibition held in Nuremberg.

This ruling highlights the ongoing patent litigation landscape within the medical device industry, where companies frequently clash over innovative technologies aimed at improving surgical outcomes.