NIPC Law

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 ...

Huawei's Head Office Author: Dr Bernd Gross Licence  Copyright waived by the owner Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Henry Carr)  Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and others   [2018] EWHC 808 (Pat) Although the precise relief sought in these proceedings is not mentioned in this judgment, it must have been a strike out or stay of a claim for patent infringement.  The applicants were the Chinese companies,  Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd . ("Huawei") and the ZTE Corporation  ("ZTE") and their respective British subsidiaries which are defendants to a claim by  Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L ("Conversant") for patent infringement. The patents alleged to have been infringed are part of a worldwide portfolio that Conversant has offered to license on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory) terms. I discussed such licences in FRAND   on   8 Oct 2017 and FRAND - a...