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Patent woes for HMD Global continue with eligibility determination by US court

By Melissa Ritti ( May 16, 2025, 13:25 GMT | Insight) -- A motion by HMD Global for judgment on the pleadings that technology directed to sound signal encoding and classification is ineligible for patenting was denied this week. The ruling by a Delaware federal judge comes on the heels of a recent loss for HMD Global in Germany, where it is also defending VoiceAge EVS LLC’s allegations of infringement.Canadian standard essential patent licensor VoiceAge EVS LLC’s global enforcement campaign against HMD Global, a Finnish maker of Nokia-branded smartphones, notched another win this week when US Judge Gregory B. Williams of the District of Delaware refused to declare two methods of sound signal encoding and classification ineligible under Section 101 of the Patent Act....

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