Published: April 20, 2018
Publisher: WIPR
Huawei’s and ZTE’s attempt to escape a patent dispute with a licensing company by questioning the jurisdictional legitimacy of the English courts has been thwarted.
Mr. Justice Henry Carr delivered the decision at the English High Court on Monday, April 16.
Conversant Wireless Licensing is a subsidiary of Luxemburg-based Conversant IP Management, an IP management firm specializing in technology patents and licenses. The subsidiary licenses wireless patents covering technologies used in mobile devices, including many standard-essential patents (SEPs).
A patentee declaring patents as standard-essential commits to licensing them on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
In July 2017 Conversant accused Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE Corporation of infringing the UK designations of four of its European SEPs.