This transfer involves a total of 12 granted US patents and their corresponding European family patents, primarily covering Hikvision’s core surveillance camera and related technology fields, including patents in areas such as mobile imaging, video analytics, robotic computer vision, memory optimisation, and streaming media bandwidth management.

The case stems from a judgment delivered by Judge Mello of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales on 18 December 2025. The judge granted Acer and Asus a provisional licence declaration covering H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC video coding patents, and dismissed Nokia’s jurisdictional objection.

This ruling stems from a patent infringement dispute previously initiated by both parties in Europe. In 2025, Nokia filed two separate actions before the UPC concerning the relevant patents, under case numbers UPC_CFI_661/2025 and UPC_CFI_662/2025, relating to European Patents EP 3 799 333 and EP 4 090 075. These cases are currently pending.

On 16 April 2026, the Mannheim Regional Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) delivered its judgment in the patent infringement case brought by Corning Incorporated against four TCL-affiliated companies (Case No. UPC_CFI_819/2024): The Court found that the glass substrates used in television products sold on the German market by three TCL entities in Germany fell within the scope of protection of Corning’s European patent EP 3 296 274, thereby constituting patent infringement. It upheld Corning’s key claims for an injunction, disclosure of information, product recall, channel clearance and destruction of stock, whilst dismissing TCL’s counterclaim for patent invalidity. Furthermore, the court found that TCL’s Belgian holding company did not infringe the patent and dismissed all of Corning’s claims against that entity.

The case dates back to 2018, when Teva and Eli Lilly received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for their migraine drugs Ajovy (fremanezumab) and Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm) within 13 days of one another. Teva subsequently sued Eli Lilly, alleging that its drug Emgality infringed three patents relating to the CGRP pathway for the treatment of headaches.

The EU has recently formally adopted the revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER) and accompanying guidelines, introducing significant changes to competition rules in the field of technology licensing. The new rules will come into force on 1 May 2026, providing, for the first time, systematic provisions for the competition assessment of data licensing agreements and ‘licensing negotiation groups’ (LNGs).

On 10 April 2026, Wilus filed a lawsuit against router manufacturer TP-Link in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleging infringement of four Wi-Fi 6 standard-essential patents (Case No.: 2:26-cv-00290-JRG).

The case stems from a lawsuit filed by the plaintiffs in September 2025, alleging that the defendants had “massively” stolen copyright-protected works via Haishuo AI and induced users to generate infringing content featuring well-known characters from the plaintiffs’ portfolios, including Disney, Warner Bros., Universal and Marvel.

This pilot programme applies to PCT applications entering the national phase pursuant to Section 371 of the US Patent Act (35 U.S.C. §371). The USPTO will issue a Notice of Information Requirement to selected applicants, who must, within the specified time limit, choose one of three options: request immediate examination, request a deferral of examination, or explicitly abandon the application; failure to respond by the deadline will result in the application lapsing.

Recently, the Irish non-practising entity (NPE) Key Patent Innovations, together with its affiliates Malikie Innovations (hereinafter referred to as ‘Malikie’) and Valtrus, launched a series of multi-patent infringement lawsuits against seven companies, including Hisense and NTT Global Data, alleging infringement of multiple patents relating to communications and data centres. This marks yet another large-scale litigation campaign by the NPE group since its acquisition of a substantial portfolio of BlackBerry patents in 2023.