Published: June 8, 2017
Publication: IP Kat
“Jet lag is a wonderful thing. It means you can catch up on your neglected judgment reading in the hope that at least one of them will lull you asleep. Well, Mr Justice Birss, you failed jet-lag sufferers and insomniacs everywhere. Yesterday morning’s second instalment in the Unwired Planet v Huawei FRAND dispute was a page turner introducing a new type of IP injunction – a FRAND injunction. With Huawei having not engaged with the terms of the worldwide licence during the main trial (and at the time of the final judgment), the question of an injunction was left over to be decided at a separate hearing. That hearing came, as promised by the judge, after the Easter break ending with today’s decision [2017] EWHC 1304.
The Court decided several issues. The AmeriKat focuses on the biggest – the newly anointed FRAND injunction.”