5/8/2025 2:46:11 PM Reaffirming FRAND Fundamentals: A Detailed Examination of Optis v Apple By Matthew Raynor In a landmark decision handed down on 1 May 2025, the Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s determination of FRAND terms for a...
5/7/2025 8:45:29 AM Podcast: Optis v Apple – Recalibrating FRAND in the UK By Richard Pinckney Matthew Raynor In this episode, Richard Pinckney and Matthew Raynor unpack the Court of Appeal’s landmark decision in Optis v Apple, a judgment that...
5/2/2025 12:50:40 PM Podcast: UK FRAND declarations and patent pools – Tesla v Avanci in the Court of Appeal By Richard Pinckney Sam Harvey Patent litigators Richard Pinckney and Sam Harvey consider the position of patent pools (or platforms) in UK SEP/FRAND licensing disputes...
5/1/2025 5:44:35 PM STOP PRESS: UK Court of Appeal Overturns and Re-Decides FRAND Royalty in Optis v Apple proceedings ([2025] EWCA Civ 552) By Matthew Raynor Sophie Lawrance Richard Pinckney In a major judgment addressing the valuation of standard-essential patent (SEP) licences, the Court of Appeal has overturned the...
4/4/2025 3:21:43 PM Pressure points – attempts to ask the UK courts to regularise the negotiation period in FRAND Disputes By Nicholas Round Fariha Chowdhury Richard Pinckney In the seminal Unwired Planet case the courts of the UK demonstrated that they were willing to and had jurisdiction to declare global...
3/14/2025 10:09:03 AM Will the UPC’s PMAC help fill the void left by the intended withdrawal of the SEP Regulation? By Matthew Hunt Last week I attended the Warsaw SEP Conference. One of the topics that caught my attention, amongst the raft of interesting discussions...
3/14/2025 10:02:34 AM Tesla v Interdigital: Tesla hits a speed bump as Court of Appeal dismisses its claim for a FRAND ‘pool’ licence By Sophie Lawrance Francion Brooks Amy Howlett On 6 March 2025, the UK Court of Appeal dismissed Tesla’s claim for the UK court to set the FRAND rate for a licence to the Avanci 5G...
3/12/2025 11:03:08 AM Short-term FRAND licences - useful or not? By Sophie Lawrance At the end of February, the Court of Appeal rendered a second judgment (Lenovo v Ericsson [2025] EWCA 182) holding that a licensor of...
3/10/2025 11:06:25 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Myles Jelf Charlie French Nicholas Round Eden Winlow Katie Cambrook Maria Ryan +3 more... Show less The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
3/3/2025 2:40:21 PM Podcast: ‘Interim’ FRAND licences – the Court of Appeal judgment in Lenovo v Ericsson By James Boon Francion Brooks In this episode, James Boon joins Francion Brooks to discuss the latest Court of Appeal judgment in Lenovo v Ericsson granting a...
3/3/2025 1:19:16 PM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Dominic Adair Naomi Hazenberg Aida Tohala Ben Reeves +1 more... Show less The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of patent litigation news highlights from around the world. Taking its name from the plural of...
2/28/2025 1:59:01 PM Court of Appeal allows Lenovo’s appeal for a declaration of an interim licence By Sam Harvey Today, the UK Court of Appeal handed down its appeal judgment in Lenovo v Ericsson allowing Lenovo’s appeal and so granting a declaration...