The jury issued a three-year injunction prohibiting Google from maintaining the Play Store's advantage through exchange of interests and requiring it to allow developers to offer alternative payment channels. The injunction applies only within the United States and requires Google to complete the necessary reforms within eight months, with the three-year restriction period beginning after the reforms are completed.

Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen (Keulen) noted at the hearing that while music publishers accuse Anthropic of mass-copying copyrighted lyrics to train its large language model Claude, obtaining user account names and email addresses is unnecessary for advancing the litigation.

On July 1, 2025, Access Advance LLC announced the initial list of licensees and licensors for its Video Distribution Patent (VDP) pool, including ByteDance, Kuaishou, Tencent, and others. The patent pool license covers all four major video codecs currently used by video distribution providers: HEVC (H.265), VVC (H.266), VP9, and AV1.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedent-setting decision last week, written by Judge Hughes, overturning the district court's decision to uphold the validity of the patent claims owned by Mondis Technology, Ltd.

According to the latest court documents, Huawei filed a second lawsuit on July 25 with the Mannheim Regional Court of the Unified Patent Court (case number: ACT_33610/2025), involving another HEVC key technology patent, EP3471419. This move marks Huawei's intensified litigation strategy following the failure of negotiations between the two parties.

The specific penalties are as follows: PT Sany Indonesia Machinery was fined 360 billion Indonesian rupiah, PT Sany Heavy Industry Indonesia was fined 57 billion Indonesian rupiah, and PT Sany Indonesia Heavy Equipment was fined 32 billion Indonesian rupiah. The parent company, Sany International Development, was not fined but was required to revise its sales plan.

The Intermediate People's Court of Xicheng has now enforced the judgment of the San Mateo Court (which became final in 2019), marking the first time that a Chinese court has enforced a US judgment based on the principle of reciprocity.

Huawei is the fourth Access Advance patent pool licensee to initiate HEVC patent enforcement against Transsion. Previously, Transsion was sued by NEC, JVC, and Sun Patent Trust over HEVC patents at the UPC and in Brazil.

It is reported that in 2024, Headwater initiated a global patent enforcement campaign against Samsung for allegedly infringing on multiple wireless patents, filing lawsuits simultaneously in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the UPC.

The patent in question is U.S. Patent No. 10,482,517 (“Providing a simulation of wearing items such as clothing and/or accessories”), which enables real-time capture of a user's facial position and orientation to dynamically overlay virtual makeup effects. Zugara claims that Chanel's website tutorials induce consumers to use the infringing interface, constituting contributory infringement, and seeks damages and a permanent injunction.