Patents - Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and Others
Author Goodtiming8871 Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikipedia Cellular Network Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss) Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and other s [2020] EWHC 14 (Pat) (8 Jan 2020) This was a patent infringement claim by Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd ., ZTE Corporation and their respective British subsidiaries. The patents alleged to have been infringed are European patents (UK) 1 878 177 ("177"), 3 267 722 ("722") and 3 197 206 ("206"). Conversant had declared those patents to be essential to certain 3G and 4G standards. It argued that manufacturing, distributing or marketing items that met those standards without its licence would necessarily infringe the patents. The defendants contended that the patents were invalid on various grounds and denied that the patents were essential to t...