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  Acer Building Nokia’s Head Office Author Solomon203 Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Author pikkuanna Licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Jackson, Arnold and Zacaroli)  Acer Inc and Another v Nokia Technologies OY [2026] EWCA Civ 564 (12 May 2026) This was an appeal by Nokia Technologies OY ("Nokia") against the order of Mr Justice Mellor in  Acer Inc. and others v Nokia Technologies OY [2025] EWHC 3331 (Pat) of 18 Dec 2025 rejecting Nokia's challenge to the jurisdiction of the English courts, refusing a stay on case management grounds and granting some interim licence declarations that had been sought by Acer Inc. and Acer UK Limited ("Acer") and Asustek Computer Inc. and Asus Global Pte Ltd. ("Asus"). The Parties Nokia owned or had rights to license a portfolio of patents with claims that have been declared essential to the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunicatio...

Fibre Optic Cable Author Bidgee Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.4 Australia Source Wikipedia Jane Lambert It is well known that the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") came into force throughout the European Union on 25 May 2018.  What is less well known is that a new Data Protection Act 2018  came into force in the UK on the same day.  The Act complements the GDPR in that it repeals the Data Protection Act 1998 which had transposed the Data Protection Directive into English and Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish law.  The GDPR repealed the Directive but not member states' implementing legislation,  The 2018 Act also provides machinery for the enforcement of the GDPR and regulates personal data processing that falls outside the scope of the Regulation. Where to find out more about the Act I publish most of my articles on data protection in a separate blog called NIPC Data Protection .  NIPC Data Prot...