NIPC Law

Author Anthony M   Licence CC BY 2.0   Source Flickr Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold, Nugee and Birss)  Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others [2023] EWCA Civ 438 (25 April 2023) This was an appeal from Mr Justice Meade's judgment in Optis Cellular Technology LLC and others v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 3121 (Pat) (25 Nov 2021) in which the learned judge revoked  EP 2 093 953 B1 ,  EP 2 464 065 B1  and  EP 2 592 779 B1  for a method for transmitting and receiving control information through PDCCH.  The action had been trial "C" of a series of trials between the three Panoptis companies (Optis Cellular Technology LLC, Optis Wireless Technology LLC and Unwired Planet International Ltd. ("Optis")) and Apple Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Apple") over the terms of a FRAND licence of the claimants' portfolio of allegedly standard-essential patents. The Appeal Mr Justice Mea...

Author  Interdigital  Licence   CC BY-SA 4.0   Source  Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Court  (Mr Justice Mellor)  Interdigital Technology Corp and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others    [ [2023] EWHC 172 (Pat) (31 Jan 2023) This was Mr Justice Mellor's judgment in Technical Trial "C".  A technical trial is a proceeding to determine whether a patent is valid, essential to a technical standard and infringed.  If it is then the owner of the patent can apply to the court for an injunction to restrain the infringement subject to an undertaking that he or she may have given to the standard-setting organization to grant any person wishing to implement the standard ("an implementer") a licence to do so on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND") terms. If the patentee and implementer cannot agree those terms, there has to be a further trial (known as a "FRAND trial") in which the court will determine them. Related L...