Welcome to the latest edition of the Sisvel Insights weekly round-up, aggregating news stories, analyses and data points affecting the SEP world that have caught our eye over the past seven days

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Last week was a busy one for everyone at team Sisvel. More than 200 people joined us in Barcelona for Sisvel Connect 2025 and to mark the occasion we published a message from our Group President and CEO Mattia Fogliacco laying out just how much has changed in the business since the start of 2024.

In his piece, Mattia detailed the litany of major appointments Sisvel has made, bolstering our legal, business development, policy and comms teams with new leadership. The firm’s geographical footprint has grown too, with major hires made in Tokyo, Seoul and most recently Shenzhen. On the dealmaking front, we saw significant traction for the Wi-Fi 6 and Cellular IoT offerings, built on strong performance in AV1 and other programmes, and launched new custom solutions offering Sisvel Bespoke. There was much more besides.

This momentum, Mattia concluded, has been driven by the way we operate. Sisvel is committed to the highest standards of transparency, and to constant engagement with all parts of the market. We believe that sets us apart.

In the legal world, meanwhile, the interplay between UK and European courts over FRAND jurisdiction continued with a fresh decision from the High Court in London. The latest development came in the clash between InterDigital and Amazon. Taking notice of anti-interim-licence injunctions (AILI) that emerged from the UPC and Germany earlier this month, Mr Justice Meade granted Amazon an anti-anti-suit injunction (AASI) protecting the global RAND rate-setting portion of its UK proceedings against InterDigital.

Elsewhere, Nordic Semiconductor announced a new end-product licensee under the innovative sub-licensing framework it has entered into with the Sisvel Cellular IoT programme; and Sisvel founder Roberto Dini observed that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) appears sceptical towards proprietary technical specifications that claim to be ‘royalty-free’.

Please note that inclusion of a piece in the list below does not signify agreement with what is stated in the linked article, just that we believe it is of interest and worth pointing out.

Market

Mattia Fogliacco recounted Sisvel’s major advancements over the past two years, saying they have laid the groundwork for an exciting future. Sisvel | Sisvel is powering innovation while powering forward

Nordic Semiconductor announced Lobaro, a Germany-based industrial IoT company, as a licensee under its sub-licensing agreement with Sisvel Cellular IoT. Lobaro takes cellular IoT patent license through innovative Nordic-Sisvel collaboration - nordicsemi.com

InterDigital announced three deals – the renewal of agreements with Sharp and Seiko and a new licence with a manufacturer of home and commercial EV chargers. InterDigital - Press Releases

Legal

The UK High Court granted an anti-anti-suit injunction protecting Amazon’s global RAND rate-setting action against InterDigital. The order does not counteract the anti-interim licence injunctions obtained earlier by the US licensing firm. Amazon obtains anti-anti-suit injunction against InterDigital from UK court - IAM 🔒

Optis initiated a new litigation campaign against Oppo in India. LinkedIn post - ip fray 🔒

Roku filed its opening brief urging the Federal Circuit to overturn a lower court’s refusal to determine FRAND terms for a patent pool. Roku puts global FRAND question to US appeal court in rift with patent pool | MLex 🔒

Policy & Opinion

US antitrust authorities appear to be paying greater attention to market issues that arise when closed, proprietary standards purporting to be ‘royalty-free’, Sisvel founder Roberto Dini writes. The DOJ Understands Royalty-Free Licensing is Far from Free - IPWatchdog.com

Deputy USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart addressed the US Inventor conference, saying big changes underway at the PTAB signify a return to its original mission. Stewart addresses recent US PTAB changes garnering inventor praise | MLex 🔒

Strategy & Analysis

Jurisdictional tensions between courts in the UK and Europe are coming the fore as a result of recent FRAND decisions. Temperature rises between patent courts around Europe over FRAND policy | MLex 🔒

5G-Advanced will introduce “entirely new, licensable technologies” including non-terrestrial networks (NTN), integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and AI/ML according to a report from GreyB. The bridge to 6G: 5G Advanced will drive licensing complexity - IAM 🔒