Federal Circuit Keeps Open Possibility Of Antisuit Injunction In Ericsson v. Lenovo
10/29/2024
On October 24, 2024, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion that may have implications for litigation involving standard essential patents (SEPs). Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson v. Lenovo (United States), Inc., No. 24-1515 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 24, 2024). The Court vacated the district court’s denial of Lenovo’s request for an antisuit injunction to prevent Ericsson from enforcing injunctions obtained in Colombia and Brazil, and remanded the case for further proceedings below. In doing so, the Federal Circuit clarified that the “dispositive” requirement of the general framework for analyzing foreign-antisuit-injunction requests may be met even where a foreign antisuit injunction would not resolve the entire foreign proceeding, but only the foreign injunction.