NIPC Law

Author  Basher Eyre #   Lixnxw  CC BY-SA 2. 0 Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor)  Koninklijke Philips N.V. v Xiaomi Inc and others [2021] EWHC 1124 (Pat) (26 April 2021) On 21 Oct 2020 Koninklijke Philips N.V issued patent infringement proceedings against Xiaomi Inc and its subsidiaries in the UK, Cayman Islands and Hong Kong. Phillips claimed that the patents that the Xiaomi companies are alleged to have infringed are essential to a standard for the operation of 3G and 4G mobile phone networks for which it has undertaken to grant licences.  Phillips sought a declaration that the terms upon which it grants licences are FRAND, that is to say fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory As all the defendants except the second are outside the jurisdiction, Phillips needed the court's permission to serve them. It applied to Mr Justice Mann on 26 Oct 2020 who granted such leave to Phillips as well as other relief.  The second defendant, Xia...

Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss)  Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 256 (Pat) (10 Feb 2020 This was an application by the claimant, Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL  for disclosure of the licence agreements and assignments relating to 3G and 4G patents that had been entered by the defendants, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd., ZTE (UK) Limited and their British subsidiaries. Substantially the same application had been made to His Honour Judge Hacon at the case management conference in the action which took place in July 2019. The later application was heard by Mr Justice Birss who delivered judgment in  Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 256 (Pat) on 10 Feb 2020. The reference to the CMC in the transcript of Mr Justice Birss's judgment is [2009] EWHC 1982 (Pat) but I think that must be a misprint for [2019]. Judge Hacon refused Conv...

Author Goodtiming8871   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikipedia Cellular Network  Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss)  Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and other s [2020] EWHC 14 (Pat) (8 Jan 2020) This was a patent infringement claim by  Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL  against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd .,  ZTE Corporation  and their respective British subsidiaries.  The patents alleged to have been infringed are European patents (UK) 1 878 177  ("177"), 3 267 722  ("722") and 3 197 206  ("206"). Conversant had declared those patents to be essential to certain 3G and 4G standards. It argued that manufacturing, distributing or marketing items that met those standards without its licence would necessarily infringe the patents. The defendants contended that the patents were invalid on various grounds and denied that the patents were essential to t...