NIPC Law

Jane Lambert Court of Appeal Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd   [2017] EWCA Civ 266 (12 April 2017) Lords Justices Gross and Floyd and Mr Justice Arnold  In  Unwired Planet International Ltd v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and Others [2015] EWHC 3366 (Pat) (23 Nov 2015), Unwired Planet sued Huawei, Samsung and Google for patent infringement. The patent in suit was European patent 2,229,744 entitled Method and arrangement in a wireless communication network  which is concerned with polling for a wireless communication network. The trial judge, Mr Justice Birss, explained at para [2] of his judgment that "In this context the word "poll" refers to a message sent by a transmitter of data to the receiver to ask the receiver to tell the transmitter what information has been received. In the context of the mobile radio networks in this case, the poll asks the receiver to send a "status report". When the trans...

Autho r Ac dx Source Wikipedia Creative Commons Licence Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) v Warner-Lambert Company LLC   [2016] EWCA Civ 1006 (13 Oct 2016) This was an appeal against two of Mr Justice Arnold's judgments. The first was his decision in  Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) v Warner-Lambert Company LLC   [2015] EWHC 2548 (Pat) which I discussed in  The Pregabalin Trial: Generics (UK) Ltd v Warner-Lambert Company LLC   18 Sept 2015. The second was his refusal to allow Warner-Lambert to amend certain claims of its patent after trial in    Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) v Warner-Lambert Company LLC [2015] EWHC 3370 (Pat) on the ground that the application was an abuse of the process of the court. The Issues Lord Justice Floyd, who delivered the lead judgment on the appeal, identified the issues before the Court of Appeal as follows in the first paragraph of his judgment: "Firstly, did Arnold J correctly hold certain claims of...