The Vestel Appeal: Vestel Elektronik v Access Advance

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...