NIPC Law

Great Hall of the People Chongqing Author flyerletian Licence  CCO 1.0   Soutce Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Peter Jackson, Arnold and Phillips) Nokia Technologies OY and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd and others [2022] EWCA Civ 947 (11 July 2022) This was an appeal from the judgment of HH Judge Hacon sitting as a judge of the High Court in  Nokia Technologies OY and another v Oneplus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd and other s (Rev1) [2021] EWHC 2952 (Pat) (4 Nov 2021) which I discussed in  FRAND - Nokia Technologies v Oneplus Technology   on 25 April 2022.  Readers will recall that the learned judge refused an application to set aside service of patent infringement proceedings on defendants that had been incorporated in China and to stay the action against the defendants that had been incorporated here to abide the outcome of proceedings in China to determine the terms of a FRAND licence for the...

Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Photographer T umi-1983   Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Mr Justice Mann)  Koninklijke Philips NV v Tinno Mobile Technology Corporation and others [2020] EWHC 2553 (Ch) (25 Sept 2020) This was an application and cross-application in a patent infringement case.  Koninklijke Philips NV ("Phillips") claimed that the TCL Corporation and four of its subsidiaries ("TCL") had infringed two of its patents in complying with an ETSI standard for 3G and 4G phones.  At first, TCL denied infringement, challenged the essentiality and validity of the patents and the jurisdiction of the court. Later it declared itself willing to take a licence on FRAND terms and applied to the French courts to determine them. Phillips tried unsuccessfully to persuade the French court to stay the proceedings in France to allow its claim in  England to proceed.  By a decision dated 6 Feb 2020 ( Ordonnance du Juge de la Mise en État ), the French pro...