{"id":10224,"date":"2024-07-29T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:16:55","slug":"panasonic-cases-clarification-on-the-production-of-comparable-licenses-before-upc-orders-to-produce-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/panasonic-cases-clarification-on-the-production-of-comparable-licenses-before-upc-orders-to-produce-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic cases: Clarification on the production of comparable licenses before UPC (orders to produce evidence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/patentblog.kluweriplaw.com\/2024\/07\/23\/upcs-order-to-produce-evidence-huawei-vs-netgear\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">the case between Huawei and Netgear<\/a>, in which the defendant had obtained a production order for a comparable license granted by Huawei to Qualcomm, the production of which Netgear had obtained via a decision of the Munich local division on 24 April 2024. It is interesting to note that this case is not the only one of its kind, and that these cases, which focus on the production of comparable licenses in disputes relating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/patent-essential-a-standard\/\">SEP<\/a>s, seem to constitute the embryo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/unified-patent-jurisdiction\/\">UPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/patent-essential-a-standard\/\">SEP<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/licence-frand\/\">FRAND<\/a> jurisprudence.<\/p>\n<p>So, a few months after this first decision, it was the turn of the local Mannheim division to rule on a request to produce comparable licenses in the cases pitting Panasonic against Xiaomi and Oppo. At the end of July 2023, Panasonic brought infringement actions against Xiaomi and Oppo, invoking 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/patent-essential-a-standard\/\">SEP<\/a> patents declared essential to the WCDMA and LTE standards. The plaintiff has brought no fewer than twelve actions against the two defendants before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/unified-patent-jurisdiction\/\">UPC<\/a>\u2019s local divisions in Mannheim and Munich, in parallel with litigation already underway in Great Britain and new national litigation filed in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On April 30 and May 16, 2024, the local Mannheim division handed down two important decisions concerning requests for the production of evidence, in this case comparable licenses, as was already the case in the Huawei case. The Panasonic cases, however, have the particularity of providing more details on the framework for the production of comparable licenses before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/intellectual-property-glossary\/unified-patent-jurisdiction\/\">UPC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we reported on the case between Huawei and Netgear, in which the defendant had obtained a production order for a comparable license granted by Huawei to Qualcomm, the production of which Netgear had obtained via a decision of the Munich local division on 24 April 2024. 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