NIPC Law

Xiaomi Tech Park, Beijing Author Plerxemo   Licence CC BY-SA 3,0   Source Wikimedia Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 1541 (Pat) (8 June 2021) Sometimes a procedural application can lead to a debate on fundamental principles of substantive law. Such was the case in  Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 1541 (Pat) (8 June 2021).  The application was brought by Xiaomi Cimmunications Inc. and others ("the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th defendants who are referred to in the judgment as "the Xiaomi defendants").  They applied for the claim in this action by Sisvel International SA  ("Sisvel") (the second claimant) to be dismissed and for all future claims by Sisvel against the Xiaomi defendants to be stayed. The Litigation Sisvel administers a portfolio of patents for mobile t...

Author Wags05  Licence Copyright waived by the Author   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Nugee and Birss and Lady Justice Laing)  Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S. and another v Access Advance LLC and another [2021] (26 March 2021) [2021] WLR(D) 178, [2021] EWCA Civ 440 Many of the tellies that are sold in this country under such brands as Toshiba, Hitachi, Telefunken and Panasonic are actually made in Turkey by  Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S . and distributed by the Vestel group's British company Vestel UK Ltd.  In this article, "Vestel" refers to both Vestel companies.  Access Advance LLC  administers the HEVC patent pool.  HEVC is a video compression technology which is defined by the International Telecommunication Union H.265 recommendation. One of the members of that pool is Koninklijke Philips NV.  Vestel's Claim Vestel applied to Access Advance for a licence to use Philips's patents under Acces...

Jane Lambert Patents Court (HH Judge Hacon)  Vestel Elektronik Sanayi VE Ticaret AS and another v HEVC Advance LLC and another [2019] EWHC 2766 (Ch) (21 Oct 2019) This was an application for a declaration that the English Patents Court has no jurisdiction to entertain a claim by Vestel Elektronik Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.Ş  and its British subsidiary, Vestel UK Ltd against HEVC Advance LLC, a Delaware company that manages a pool of standard-essential patents ("SEP"), or Koninklijke Phillips NV ("Phillips") one of the SEP owners for relief from an alleged abuse of a dominant position under art 102  of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU") and/or s.18  of the Competition Act 1998 by failing to offer licences under the SEP on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND") terms.  The application came on before His Honour Judge Hacon sitting as a judge of the High Court on 2 and 3 Oct 2019.  Judgment was given on 2...