5/29/2025 4:12:44 PM “Context always matters”: AG Emiliou’s Opinion on no-poach agreements in the Tondela case By Edwin Bond In his recent Opinion in Case C-133/24 Tondela and others, Advocate General Emiliou has suggested that a no-poach agreement concluded...
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...
4/15/2025 9:20:07 AM The CMA’s new enforcement and investigatory powers By Georgia Austin Sean Ibbetson The consumer law provisions of the DMCC Act came into force on Sunday 6 April reforming consumer protection in the UK. To learn more...
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...
4/4/2025 2:49:08 PM Introducing our website hub dedicated to the advertising and consumer protection law aspects of the DMCC By Sean Ibbetson Francion Brooks Alice Esuola-Grant Elisa Lindemann +1 more... Show less Introducing our brand new website hub dedicated to the advertising and consumer protection law aspects of the Digital Markets,...
4/2/2025 12:56:15 PM The final run-up to the DMCC’s consumer enforcement regime: what to expect on 6 April 2025 By Elisa Lindemann Kallie Botha Georgia Austin The Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC) will come into force on 6 April 2025 and will reform consumer protection law...
3/27/2025 5:36:40 PM Working away: the CMA’s first infringement decision concerning labour markets By Antonia Kendrick Last week, the CMA closed two investigations concerning information exchange in labour markets for workers in the sports and non-sports...
3/24/2025 3:54:56 PM An Epic reload: Fortnite fires back at iOS in Brazil By Matthew Hunt Sze-Von Lam Epic Games is ‘dropping in’ to Brazil this July by bringing Fortnite to iOS through its very own app store. This comes after a recent...
3/14/2025 4:07:34 PM Tech Transfer rules review comes to the UK By Sophie Lawrance Hard on the heels of the European Commission initiation of a review of the 2014 Technology Transfer Block Exemption (TTBE) and Guidelines...