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FRAND - The InterDigital v Lenovo Litigation

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By Nachoman-au - A digital photograph taken by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=589068   Jane Lambert Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others (Trial B) [2022] EWHC 10 (Pat) (6 Jan 2022) Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others  [2021] EWHC 3401 (Pat) (16 Dec 2021) Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others  [2021] EWHC 3192 (Pat) (26 Nov 2021) Interdigital Technology Corporation and another v Lenovo Group Ld Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 2152 (Pat) (29 July 2021) Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others  [2021] EWHC 89 (Pat) (19 Jan 2021) Mr Justice Birss (as he then was) summarized this litigation in para [1] of the transcript in  Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others  [2021] EWHC 89 (Pat) (19 Jan 2021)...

Restrictions on the Use of Disclosed Documents - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Archos SA and Others

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Jane Lambert   Patents Court (Sir Alistair Norris)  Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Archos SA and other s [2020] EWHC 2641 (Pat) (9 Oct 2020) In these proceedings, Sir Alistair Norris was asked to vary a confidentiality order that had been made by Mr Justice Mann at a case management conference on 22 July 2020.  The order was made in an action to set the terms of a licence to work certain patents that were alleged to be essential for compliance with a mobile telecommunications standard. That was one of a number of issues between the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and    Sisvel International SA on the one hand and several implementers of the standard on the other.   The other issues were the jurisdiction of the English courts, whether the patents had been infringed and whether the terms of the licence that the claimants were prepared to offer were fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND"). The reason why Mr Justice Mann made ...

TQ Delta, LLC v ZYXEL Communications - A Postscript

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Author BTphotosUK Licence Attribution 2.0 Generi c Source Wikipedia Fiber to the x Jane Lambert On Monday I discussed Mr Justice Henry Carr's judgment in  TQ Delta, LLC v ZYXEL Communications Ltd and Another [2019] EWHC 562 (Pat) (11 March 2019) and mentioned the injunction he granted in  TQ Delta LLC v Zyxel Communications Ltd and another  [2019] EWHC 745 (Pat) (18 March 2019) (see Standard Essential Patents - TQ Delta, LLC v ZYXEL Communications Ltd   22 July 2019). Since then.  Since then, there have been two further hearings in the proceedings: one before Mr Justice Birss on 17 April ( TQ Delta, LLC v Zyxel Communications UK Ltd and another No 3 [2019] EWHC 1089 (Pat) (17 April 2019)) and the other before Mr Recorder Campbell QC on 19 June 2010 (see TQ Delta, LLC v Zyxel Communications UK Ltd and another [2019] EWHC 1597 (Pat) (19 June 2019)). History of the Litigation In his judgment, Mr Justice Birss noted that the action had ...