Patent Licensing: ASSIA Inc v BT Plc
A Huawei Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer ("DSLAM") Author Jnnis Walter Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Arnold, Nugee and Birss) A daptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc v British Telecommunications Plc [2023] EWCA Civ 451 (26 April 2023) This was an appeal by Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Incorporated ("ASSIA") against the judgment of Mrs Justice Falk in Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc v British Telecommunications Plc [2022] EWHC 1707 (Ch) (6 July 2022). Her ladyship dismissed ASSIA's claim for declarations on the construction of a patent licence granted by ASSIA to British Telecommunications Plc ("BT" ). ASSIA's appeal came on before Lords Justices Arnold, Nugee and Birss on 29 March 2023. By their judgment which was handed down on 26 April 2022, their lordships unanimously dismissed the appeal (see Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc v ...