NIPC Law

UK Supreme Court Author:  Dietmar Rabich   Licence:  CC BY-SA 4.0   Source:  Wikimedia Commo n s Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lord Sales (Deputy President), Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Burrows and Lord Kitchin)  Tesla, Inc and another v InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc and others [2026] UKSC 27 (27 July 2026) This was an appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision in  Tesla Inc and another v IDAC Holdings Inc and Others [2025] EWCA Civ 193 (6 March 2025) to dismiss the appeal by Tesla Inc and Tesla Motors Ltd. ("Tesla") against Mr Justice Fancourt's order refusing service of process outside the jurisdiction in Tesla, Inc and Another v Idac Holdings, Inc and others [2024] EWHC 1815 (Ch) (15 July 2024).   The key issue was whether the courts of England and Wales had jurisdiction to decide a dispute concerning the terms of a licence to use a standard essential patent ("SEP") in circumstances where the claim was brought by an impl...

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 ...

Royal Courts of Justice Author Anthony Majanlathi   Licence CC BY 2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold, Nugee and Birss)  InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2024] EWCA Civ 743 (12 July 2024) This was an appeal by the claimants, InterDigital Technology and others ("InterDigital") and a cross-appeal by the defendants, Lenovo Group Limited and others ("Lenovo") against the order of Mr Justice Mellor in InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2023] EWHC 1578 (Pat) (27 June 2023). That order implemented his lordship's judgment in    InterDigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd (FRAND Judgment - Public Version) [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat) (16 March 2023) which I discussed in  Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others   on 21 March 2023.  Mr Justice Mellor req...

  Author  Interdigital  Licence   CC BY-SA 4.0   Source  Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Patents Cour t (Mr Justice Mellor) Interdigital Technology Corp and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2023] EWHC 1577 (Pat) (28 June 2023 I discussed Mr Justice Mellor's judgment in Interdigital Technology Corp and others v Lenovo Group Ltd and others [2023] EWHC 539 (Pat) in Patents - Interdigital Technology Corporation and others v Lenovo Group Ltd. and others   on 21 March 2023.  That had been a trial to determine the payments and other terms upon which patents that were essential for compliance with technical standards could be used.   At the end of my case note, I wrote: "This has been an extraordinarily difficult case note to write partly because the judgment is 225 pages long and partly because large chunks of it have been redacted, The judge has promised to publish a fuller version of his judgment in due course but even that...