Mr. Tyler Burns reports

WILAN PROVIDES LITIGATION UPDATE

Wi-LAN Inc. is providing an update on continuing litigation.

On Oct. 2, 2013, Wi-LAN announced that the company had commenced two separate litigations against Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. and against Ericsson Inc., among other parties, claiming infringement of Wi-LAN's U.S. patent No. 8,229,437, No. 8,027,298 and No. 8,249,014 related to LTE technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a licence and settlement agreement to resolve this litigation. The litigation involving the remaining defendant, Ericsson, is being tried in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In March, 2015, Ericsson moved for summary judgment on non-infringement and invalidity defences.

Today, Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks issued a ruling that grants Ericsson's motion for summary judgment on the three patents at issue. The court ruled that two of the patents were not infringed by Ericsson and that the third patent was invalid. The trial in the case, which was previously scheduled to commence on May 26, 2015, has been cancelled. In this ruling, the judge did agree with Wi-LAN that no most-favoured-licensee provisions apply to the three patents.

Wi-LAN is currently reviewing the ruling with trial counsel Tensegrity Law Group LLP. The preliminary view of the trial counsel is there are grounds to appeal this ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The case remains before the courts, and it is Wi-LAN's policy not to provide commentary on cases that are before the courts.

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