The two plaintiffs in this case are the German subsidiary trinamiX GmbH and the U.S. subsidiary trinamiX Sensing LLC, both of which are part of the BASF Group. The plaintiffs allege that Apple incorporated trinamiX’s patented technology into multiple iPhone and iPad models and used the technology for facial recognition without a license.

On October 7, 2026, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of South Korea filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against The Walt Disney Company and its streaming-related subsidiaries, alleging infringement of HEVC/H.265 video coding patents. Previously, ETRI had approached Disney regarding a license through Access Advance’s VDP patent pool, but Disney did not accept the license offer.

Public information shows that the licensing relationship between Huawei and Qualcomm has spanned more than two decades, initially centered on Huawei paying royalties to use Qualcomm’s foundational wireless patents. The two parties previously had a dispute over licensing fees but reached a settlement in 2020, which included the signing of a patent license agreement between Qualcomm and Huawei, a cross-licensing arrangement granting Huawei a reverse license, and a payment of $1.8 billion by Huawei to Qualcomm.

This consultation is open to stakeholders in the FRAND and SEP licensing ecosystem, including SEP holders, implementers, and other relevant parties. PMAC seeks comments and suggestions regarding the proposed structure, content, and any topics that may have been omitted. The deadline for submitting comments is October 26, 2026, at E-mail contact-pmac@unifiedpatentcourt.org.

The EP3079553 patent at the center of this case is titled “FLOOR-CLEANING MACHINE,” which is directly related to K?rcher’s long-standing floor cleaning equipment business.

The case originated on April 26, 2021, when Taction filed a lawsuit against Apple in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California regarding U.S. Patents Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117. The devices alleged to be infringing included multiple iPhone models and the Apple Watch.

On August 31, 2026, Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd. filed a lawsuit against Ecovacs at the Munich Regional Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), alleging infringement of its European patent EP4011266. The case number is UPC-CFI-0003142/2026. The two parties have previously engaged in multiple rounds of patent litigation regarding robotic vacuum cleaners, and this marks the first time Stone Technology has proactively filed a lawsuit against Ecovacs in the UPC.

The case originated from lawsuits filed by Lenovo’s U.S. subsidiary against ASUS in November 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and at the ITC. The patents asserted in both cases overlapped and involved technologies such as diagonal scrolling on touchpads and hinges that allow laptops to fold into tablet form.

This lawsuit cites a total of six U.S. patents, with patent numbers 12,423,985, 10,223,619, 12,641,315, 10,706,336, 10,552,713, and 11,144,776, covering technologies in the fields of video surveillance, image processing, machine learning-based video recognition, image analysis, and mobile surveillance. The products named in the complaint encompass the Eufy brand’s security hardware and software ecosystem, including smart cameras, the HomeBase security hub, video doorbells, smart locks, as well as the accompanying security app, servers, and BionicMind AI service.

This case marks the first time a dispute involving the Via voice codec patent pool has gone to court, and it is also the first time Dolby has filed an SEP infringement lawsuit regarding EVS.