Mar 16, 2023 IDC v Lenovo has landed! By Luke Maunder With a bang, the hotly anticipated FRAND judgment in InterDigital Corporation v Lenovo was handed down at 10:30 this morning. The...
Feb 10, 2023 Court of Appeal won’t re-visit cost orders after EPO revocation By Myles Jelf IPCom established at first instance and appeal that its patent was valid and infringed by Vodafone. The Court ordered substantial costs...
Jan 23, 2023 Nokia v Oppo: FRANDtastic By Luke Maunder As reported on a few well-known blogs, a Nokia SEP has been held to be valid by the High Court (essentiality was admitted). Based on...
Dec 13, 2022 Apple and Ericsson settle global FRAND dispute By Luke Maunder The largest currently ongoing FRAND licensing dispute has come to an end somewhat earlier than expected, with Apple and Ericsson...
Dec 09, 2022 EU moves to the next level in WTO dispute with China over ASIs By Richard Pinckney The European Commission has requested the establishment of a panel at the World Trade Organization for an ongoing trade dispute with...
Nov 23, 2022 Kigen v Thales: A new English route to FRAND By Luke Maunder As has long been predicted (Nostradamus would be impressed), a free-standing FRAND claim has been brought by an implementer. Sort of......
Nov 04, 2022 UK Supreme Court ends Oppo’s jurisdiction battle By Luke Maunder On 11 July 2022, the Court of Appeal confirmed that the English Courts had jurisdiction over Nokia’s claim and that no stay should be...
Oct 28, 2022 Optis v Apple: Court of Appeal examines clause 6.1 of the ETSI IPR Policy By Luke Maunder If you've followed the Optis & others v Apple saga, you must have seen the judgment handed yesterday by the Court of Appeal, about the...
Oct 27, 2022 Time to power up (USB-C only need apply) By Luke Maunder It was not all that long ago (though I may just be getting old) that the big names in telecoms sat down to develop a wireless...
Oct 21, 2022 How important is the export value of a UK decision? Arrow and expedition By Claire Phipps-Jones In the recent expedition application in Dräxlmaier v Bos , Mr Justice Mellor sitting in the UK Patents Court has confirmed that the...
Oct 06, 2022 Data analytics dispute: Splunk files lawsuit against Cribl By Toby Headdon Today data platform Splunk announced that it filed a lawsuit against Cribl, a company founded by some former Splunk employees, alleging...
Oct 05, 2022 InterDigital continues taking an Apple a day By Luke Maunder It has been reported in an SEC filing that InterDigital has renewed its patent licence agreement with Apple. As the article noted,...