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By Christine Smith - This file has been extracted from another file: Middlesex Guildhall.png, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82543212 Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lady Black. Lord Briggs and Lord Sales)  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another [2020] UKSC 37 (26 August 2020) This was the judgment in the conjoined appeals from the decisions of the Court of Appeal in  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and another   [2018] RPC 20, [2018] EWCA Civ 2344 and  Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd v Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L [2019] RPC 6, [2019] EWCA Civ 38.  I have discussed the litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal in FRAND - A Recap   on   8 Aug 2020 and FRAND on 8 Oct 2017.  I shall discuss the Supreme Court's judgment on FRAND in a talk over Zoo...

Jane Lambert Just before Christmas, I was asked to speak to the Cambridge IP Law Summer School on  TMT: A SEP & FRAND   which was due to take place this week.  The invitation was offered a few weeks after counsel for the parties in  ZTE Corporation and another v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL ,  Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and another v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL   and  Unwired Planet International Ltd and another v Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd and another   had presented their cases to the Supreme Court and we had every hope that the Justices would have delivered their judgment by now.  Sadly, coronavirus has delayed the business of the Supreme Court and the Summer School will now take place online rather than in Cambridge.  Fortunately, I can still give my talk as planned. In FRAND   I wrote that those letters stand for "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory".  Those are the terms upon which an ...