Published: 1/6/16
Publication: Comparative Patent Remedies
As mentioned previously on this blog (see here and here), district courts in Düsseldorf and in Mannheim recently have issued injunctions in favor of the owners of FRAND-encumbered SEPs. Interestingly, in both cases the entity asserting the patents was a nonpracticing entity. The courts left many questions open but both applied what is arguably a fairly narrow reading of the CJEU’s 2015 judgment in Huawei v. ZTE.