This case revolves around European Patent EP 3 678 321 held by Huawei. Huawei had previously filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Netgear over this patent. TP-Link, also sued by Huawei for the same patent, applied to the court to access certain litigation documents from the Huawei-Netgear case, asserting a legitimate interest in the materials.

This order not only confirms the injunction's validity but also explicitly outlines specific sanctions for potential violations for the first time, including an initial penalty of up to €50 million (approximately RMB 414 million) and a daily penalty of €500,000 (approximately RMB 4.14 million).

Ericsson has recently filed new lawsuits against Transsion in Indonesia, Colombia, and Morocco. This marks the first time major SEP holders like Ericsson have initiated public SEP infringement litigation in Morocco.

Disney has frequently faced litigation in the streaming media sector in recent years. In November 2024, technology company Adeia sued Disney in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleging that Disney's streaming services—including Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+—infringed six of Adeia's patents related to video streaming technology.

On December 19, 2025, the Düsseldorf Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) issued a significant ruling in a patent dispute involving Ecovacs and Roborock. The court determined that its previous unilateral orders—including evidence preservation—issued on September 4 after hearing only Ecovacs' arguments failed to meet procedural requirements and were therefore legally revoked.

Judge James Mellor further clarified that this interim license will require Acer, Asus, and Hisense to pay Nokia $0.365 per device sold. This amount exceeds the $0.03 previously proposed by Acer and Asus but falls below Nokia's initial demand of $0.69. Nokia stated it will appeal the ruling.

The ruling centered on the “scope of disclosure of patent licensing agreements.” HMD, the alleged infringer, applied to the court requesting Huawei to disclose all unredacted versions of its patent licensing agreements with all third parties.

This patent forms part of OPPO's VVC standard essential patent (SEP) portfolio, which encompasses over 100 patent families. The case is understood to be the world's first dispute involving VVC (Versatile Video Coding) standard essential patents. In response, ASUS filed a request with China's National Intellectual Property Administration in September seeking invalidation of the aforementioned patent.

Access Advance stated it will uphold service commitments to existing licensees while gradually integrating resources and licensing systems, aiming to establish a unified and transparent HEVC/VVC licensing mechanism by 2026.

The New York Times alleges in its complaint that Perplexity AI circumvented the robots.txt restrictions on its website using Perplexity-Bot and Perplexity-User crawler tools. In August 2025 alone, these crawlers attempted over 175,000 accesses to the New York Times website.