The complaint alleges Perplexity's system “free rides” on the encyclopedia and dictionary's works by summarizing their articles and diverting traffic that would otherwise go to their websites.

Federal Judge Anna Manasco in Alabama has imposed substantive sanctions on three attorneys from Butler Snow LLP, condemning their submission of fabricated case citations generated by ChatGPT as “extremely reckless.” Beyond removing the implicated lawyers from the case, she required them to notify all clients, opposing counsel, and the court of the disciplinary decision.

The injunction requires Disney to cease encoding or distributing AVC or HEVC format video data utilizing weighted prediction tools within Brazil within five days. Violations will incur cumulative daily fines of approximately US$18,000 (equivalent to approximately RMB 130,000).

TP-Link is not the only company pursuing FRAND determination in the UK. Acer, Asus, and Hisense have taken similar litigation strategies against Nokia; MediaTek against Huawei; and Amazon against InterDigital.

Warner Bros. further alleges that Midjourney knew its actions were improper, having previously blocked subscribers from generating videos based on many infringing images. However, the company removed this safeguard last month, touting the change as an “improvement.”The complaint asserts: “Midjourney made a calculated, profit-driven decision to offer no protection to copyright owners, despite Midjourney's clear awareness of the staggering scale of its piracy and copyright infringement.”

The appeal challenged a July 13, 2023 ruling by the Delhi High Court (HC) that had quashed a CCI investigation into alleged SEP abuse by Ericsson, initiated following complaints from domestic smartphone manufacturers (Micromax, iBall, Intex, etc.).

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated an $81 million (approximately 581 million yuan) compensation ruling against Boeing last Thursday. The lawsuit accused Boeing of stealing trade secrets from electric aircraft startup Zunum Aero.

U.S. biotechnology company Gilead has filed a new revocation lawsuit with the Unified Patent Court (UPC) targeting a patent owned by the Academy of Military Medical Sciences of the People's Liberation Army (hereinafter referred to as the Academy). The patent may potentially interfere with the sale of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir. Gilead is currently on the offensive in Europe.

Several days prior to this lawsuit, Keeta filed a lawsuit against Didi's Brazilian subsidiary 99 in Brazil, accusing its food delivery app 99Food of attempting to restrict restaurants from partnering with more than two food delivery platforms.

The patent in question is EP3258692 (Method and Apparatus for Predicting Motion Vectors). According to the patent list published by the HEVC Advance patent pool, this patent has corresponding patent deployments in multiple countries, including China, France, and Belgium.