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Munich Law Courts Author Berthold Werner   Licence CC BY -S A 3.0   Source Wikipedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Meade) Amazon.com Inc and others v Interdigital VC Holdings Inc and others [2025] EWHC 3170 (Pat) (2 Dec 2025) This was an application by InterDigital VC Holdings Inc., InterDigital Inc., InterDigital Madison Patents Holdings SAS, InterDigital Patents Holdings Inc. and InterDigital CE Holdings SAS ( "InterDigital" ) to set aside or, alternatively, vary the ex parte interim anti-anti-suit injunction that Mr Justice Meade had granted to the claimants, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon  Digital UK Ltd., Amazon Europe Core SARL, Amazon EU SARL and Amazon Technologues Inc ( "Amazon ") on 20 Oct 2025 and continued on 30 Oct 2025.  The reason why his lordship made that order is that the Munich regional court ("Landgericht München I") and the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court had each granted  ex parte injunctions to ...

  Acer Building Nokia’s Head Office Author Solomon203 Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Author pikkuanna Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Jackson, Arnold and Zacaroli)  Acer Inc and Another v Nokia Technologies OY [2026] EWCA Civ 564 (12 May 2026) This was an appeal by Nokia Technologies OY ("Nokia") against the order of Mr Justice Mellor in  Acer Inc. and others v Nokia Technologies OY [2025] EWHC 3331 (Pat) of 18 Dec 2025 rejecting Nokia's challenge to the jurisdiction of the English courts, refusing a stay on case management grounds and granting some interim licence declarations that had been sought by Acer Inc. and Acer UK Limited ("Acer") and Asustek Computer Inc. and Asus Global Pte Ltd. ("Asus"). The Parties Nokia owned or had rights to license a portfolio of patents with claims that have been declared essential to the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunicatio...