Last month, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Joshua D. Wolson, sitting in Delaware by designation, granted Lenovo’s request to stay a patent case that InterDigital, Inc. filed against it back in 2019 and that had been headed to an early December 2023 trial. The court did so to await an appeal of a March 2023 judgment from the London High Court of Justice in InterDigital v. Lenovo, that decision imposing a $138.7M global fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) license against defendant Lenovo after finding that neither party’s offers had been FRAND in their dispute over patents declared essential to various 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular standards. Now, InterDigital (together with various subsidiaries) has accused Lenovo (Motorola Mobility) (5:23-cv-00493) in a new Eastern District of North Carolina complaint of infringing five patents through the provision of smartphones, computers, and tablets that allegedly support wireless file sharing and/or the AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) and VP9 video codecs.