Posted: February 18th, 2020
IPCOM GMBH & CO KG v VODAFONE GROUP PLC and others Over the past 13 years, IPCom has been asserting its portfolio of telecoms patents against various companies in the telecoms sector. In this recent decision in proceedings against Vodafone, IPCom has had its patent found valid, essential and infringed by aspects of Vodafone’s 4G […]
READ MOREPosted: January 31st, 2020
IPCom GmbH & Co. KG v. Lenovo (France) SAS et al., Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (preliminary proceedings), 20 January 2020 The Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (Paris Court of First Instance) has dismissed IPCom’s preliminary injunction action brought against Lenovo, on the ground that the requested injunction would be disproportionate. The action was based on European […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2019
Vestel UK Ltd & Anor v HEVC Advance LLC & Koninklijke Philips NV The claimants, collectively known as Vestel, brought an action against defendants Advance and Philips for relief from an Article 102 abuse of a dominant position in relation to standard essential patents and licence fees. Advance and Philips have been successful in their […]
READ MOREPosted: September 25th, 2019
Adaptive Spectrum And Signal Alignment Inc. v. Koninklijke KPN N.V., KPN B.V., Telfort Zakelijk B.V., XS4ALL Internet B.V. and Nokia Solutions and Networks Nederland B.V., District Court The Hague, 25 September 2019, Case no. C/09/563488 / HA-ZA 18-1176 On 25 September 2019 the District Court of The Hague rendered a final judgment in the case […]
READ MOREPosted: August 16th, 2019
Sisvel International S.A. v. Xiaomi Corporation, Xiaomi H.K. Limited and others, District Court The Hague, Interlocutory Proceedings, 1 August 2019, Case No. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2019:7959 Standard Essential Patents. FRAND. Sisvel is the mother company of the Sisvel group. Sisvel manages IP rights, amongst which its own patents and patents of third parties in the field of i.a. […]
READ MOREPosted: July 31st, 2019
TQ Delta, LLC v ZyXEL Communications UK Ltd & others [2019] EWCA Civ 1277 The Court of Appeal has ruled that a non-technical RAND trial to determine what licence terms are reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) with regard to a portfolio of standard essential DSL technology patents should not go ahead. This overturned a High Court […]
READ MOREPosted: July 9th, 2019
Conversant v Huawei & ZTE [2019] EWHC 1687 (Pat) UK Court considers essentiality and validity of patent in FRAND dispute. Background This judgment represents one of the technical trials in the dispute between Conversant (Claimant) and Huawei and ZTE (together the Defendants). The wider case relates to an ongoing dispute regarding what is a FRAND […]
READ MOREPosted: July 5th, 2019
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Wiko SAS, Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 2 juli 2019, Case no. 200.219.487/01 In an interim ruling the Court of Appeal earlier ruled that the claims according to the second auxiliary request are deemed to be valid and infringed by Wiko (see here). Wiko’s FRAND defence is the topic […]
READ MOREPosted: June 26th, 2019
TQ Delta, LLC v Zyxel Communications UK Ltd & others [2019] EWHC 353 (Pat) This is a judgment in a preliminary dispute concerned the setting of a trial date for the determination of RAND licence terms in a case where the technical trial of the two telecommunications patents had already been heard by the court, […]
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