NIPC Law

  Author  Goodtiming8871   Licence CC BY=SA 4 ,- Source Wikipedia Wireless     J ane Lambert Court of Appeal ( Lord Justice Lewison, Lady Justice Asplin and Lord Justice Arnold) IPCom GmbH & Co Kg v Vodafone Group Plc and others  [2021] EWCA Civ 205 (19 Feb 2021) This was an appeal by both sides against the judgment of Mr Recorder Campbell QC in IPcom GmbH & Co Kg v Vodafone Group Plc and others [2020] EWHC 132 (Pat) (28 Jan 2020).  That had been a claim by  IPCpm GmbH & Co Kg  against several companies in the Vodafone group for infringement of European Patent (UK) number EP2579666B1for Allocation of access rights for a telecommunications channel to subscriber stations of a telecommunications network . Mr Justice Birss had ordered the trial to dispose of some of the issues in a wider dispute over whether the Vodafone companies were obliged to take a licence from IPCom on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory)...

Audiencia Nacional, Madrid Author FDV   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source Wikipedia   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Marcus Smith)  Top Optimized Technologies SL and another v Vodafone Group Services Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 46 (Pat) (14 Jan 2021) This was an application by Vodafone Group Services Limited, Vodafone Group plc and Vodafone Limited ("Vodafone") to stay, either on jurisdictional grounds or for case management reasons, proceedings that had been brought against them by Top Optimized Technologies SL and TOT Power Control SL ("TOT") for patent infringement and other causes of action.  TOT had also brought proceedings against Vodaphone and Huawei in Madrid which Vodafone had challenged with some success on the ground that several causes of action were subject to agreements conferring exclusive jurisdiction on the English courts.  The proceedings that Vodaphone sought to stay were referred to as "the second UK proceedings" and the pr...