Category: United Kingdom
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UK consultation on SEP legislation closed two months ago, and they can already scrap their plans because of what has happened since
The UK government gave stakeholders 12 weeks to comment on its vision of global FRAND resolution, but the following month the landscape changed.
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InterDigital’s jurisdictional challenge to Amazon’s UK claims heard by skeptical judge; Amazon rejects LJ Arnold’s arbitration idea
The hurdle to get standalone FRAND claims in the UK dismissed for jurisdicitonal reasons appears to remain very high, if not insurmountable.
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Nokia offered non-proliferation agreement centered around mutual notices to Warner Bros., Paramount; UK judge considers it reasonable
The article also contains an unofficial English translation of the redacted version of the latest InterDigital v. Amazon decision from Munich.
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UK judge says injunction wouldn’t affect foreign judges, InterDigital wasn’t restricted from raising arguments in UPC — yet seeks to prevent enforcement of UPC order
Mr Justice Meade and Amazon are still seeking to prevent InterDigital from enforcing a UPC injunction. In some ways there is de-escalation, but the situation remains problematic.
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Unified Patent Court judges concerned over UK court order threatening them with imprisonment — but could it also become risky for UK judges to visit the EU?
The antisuit injunction Amazon obtained last month against InterDigital’s efforts to defend its enforcement actions against foreign interference could be interpreted as a direct threat against UPC and German judges.
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UPC judge indicates global patent license agreements imposed by foreign courts will NOT be recognized as defense to infringement
UK court-imposed global patent licenses will be of no commercial value if the UPC does not recognize them.
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After Amazon’s pre-emptive UK strike, InterDigital has now launched enforcement actions in U.S., UPC, Germany, Brazil over video patents
“Amazon is more interested in litigating than negotiating,” InterDigital’s Chief Legal Officer Josh Schmidt said in a statement today, as the company gears up for an anti-interim-license injunction hearing in the UPC this Friday.
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UK Supreme Court will hear Apple’s appeal of Optis’s $700M win with cast of characters familiar from Unwired: roller coaster ride?
Three of the questions for review relate to how UK courts can arrive at a FRAND rate, and one to the implications for parallel cases in foreign jurisdictions.
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Boehringer wins PI against Dr. Reddy’s that blocks generic empagliflozin (Jardiance) sales in UK pending October 2026 trial: patent thickets work
In some jurisdictions it pays off for Boehringer Ingelheim to have created a patent thicket around empaglifozin (Jardiance) involving use and formulation patents.
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BREAKING: ZTE becomes first SEP holder to win UK interim license appeal; ETSI complaint discredited; future UK cases may involve arbitration terms
This outcome is not at all surprising. The England & Wales Court of Appeal wanted to keep clear of jurisdictional supremacy.