Patents - Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others
Author Subhrajyoti Saha, Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss) Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 2746 (Pat) (16 Oct 2020) This is the first of a series of trials between Optis Cellular Technology LLC and its subsidiaries ("Optis") and Apple Inc and its subsidiaries on whether certain patents held by Optis are valid and essential for compliance with standard 3GPP TS 45.008 concerning GSM. It was common ground that Apple's products comply with the standard. Consequently, if any of the patents is valid and essential it would follow that that patent would have been infringed. The patent in suit was EP (UK) 1 230 818 for a Method for improving handovers between mobile communication systems . The action came on for trial before Mr Justice Birss between 5th and 13th Oct 2020. His lordship handed down judgment on 16 Oct 2020 (see Optis Cellula...