Published: June 8, 2017
Publication: Out-law
“Patent law specialist Deborah Bould of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said the ruling was “globally ground-breaking” and provided “exciting new case law” which has the potential to shape how other businesses approach negotiations over the licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) as well as how disputes over those licensing issues are handled.
The ruling by Mr Justice Birss followed an earlier judgment issued in April where the judge ruled that Huawei should take a worldwide licence to patents for wireless communications owned by Unwired Planet or face an injunction which would impose a sales ban on its devices in the UK. Huawei has appealed against that ruling. It has argued that it should be able to take out a UK-specific licence for Unwired Planet’s patents.”