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UK judge makes thinly-veiled antisuit threat against UPC; Advisory Committee chair mocks Mannheim LD, openly disagrees with UPC President

Florian Mueller

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  1. Mr. Hoyng’s firm represented the plaintiff and won one of two cases against Kodak (including a long-arm ruling, a field in which that firm has scored several firsts), but for the enforcement and appellate proceedings, Fujifilm switched to another firm, which may indeed get a better outcome on the technical merits, but the long-arm part may be lost (and if so, it will not be due to the appellate counsel’s work, which became clear at the hearing). ↩︎
  2. He did not mention the case, but he said everybody knew which one it was, and there can be no doubt. Technically, there is more than one InterDigital v. Amazon case pending there, and the Mannheim LD does not tolerate interference with any single one of them. The key one that was meant is the anti-interference injunction (AII) case. The related appeal will be heard next week. ↩︎
  3. In the case at hand, no such requirement was identified, and penalties with respect to conduct in the UK were imposed on a Germany-based entity. ↩︎