Judge Colm F. Connolly overturned a previous jury verdict in Natera's favor and vacated its $96.3 million (approximately N698 million) patent infringement verdict against CareDx.

This is the first time an Avanci licensee has taken legal action against a Chinese automaker. Currently, Sol IP is only asking the court to find that the defendant BYD has infringed and state that it is entitled to damages.

This case is one of several contentious legal disputes between competitors in the genomics industry. Genomics, which involves the science of the human genome, has grown rapidly in recent years. The global genomics market is valued at nearly $34 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow to $157 billion by 2033, according to a report by biopharmaceutical news outlet BioSpace.

The lawsuit is the latest in a series of recent cases against AI companies for alleged intellectual property infringement. A number of AI companies, including OpenAI, have now begun to adopt a content licensing strategy, aiming to avoid potential legal risks on the one hand, and asserting that their use of copyrighted material complies with the principle of fair use on the other.

Qualcomm reached a settlement with Chinese smartphone maker Transsion, withdrawing four non-standard essential patents (non-SEPs) lawsuits filed against Transsion in India.

The products accused in this ITC investigation are said to include a number of products such as Amazon Blink, Amazon Echo, Amazon Fir, Amazon Kindle and Amazon Ring (doorbell, camera, etc.).

The companies are currently engaged in patent litigation in South America, the United Kingdom, and North Carolina in the U.S. On October 12, 2023, Ericsson filed a petition for a 337 filing with the U.S. ITC, asserting that Lenovo has exported and imported, as well as sold, related products in the U.S. in violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.2024 The petition was filed with the U.S. ITC in the U.S., where it was denied.

On December 16, 2024, Fractus filed a lawsuit against Geotab and Verizon in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the two companies collectively infringed on six of its patents related to wireless communications, multimedia, and antenna technology.

Google has filed a lawsuit against its former engineer, Harshit Roy, in the federal court of Texas, accusing the engineer of stealing commercial secrets related to the company's chip design and sharing them publicly on the internet.