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Hear ye, hear ye: the 204th edition of Never Too Late is off the press! Patents The big talk of the week was all about FRAND, specifically Unwired Planet v Huawei :  the Court of Appeal  has upheld  Birss J's  decision  from last April, dismissing all three grounds of appeal. The AmeriKat briefly summarised the findings of the Court in   Court of Appeal reaffirms UK as SEP litigation hotspot in upholding Birss J in Unwired Planet ; Kat friends  Jane Mutimear  and  Richard Vary   provided a deeper analysis in    Much Ado About FRAND: What you need to know about today's Court of Appeal Unwired Planet decision ; and finally the AmeriKat shared that AIPPI is organising the following event :  AIPPI UK Rapid Response Event: Unwired Planet v Huawei - 13 November at 6PM .  In her comment   Lord Kitchin applies the "markedly different" infringement approach in Actavis v Eli Lilly in Icescape v Ice-World , InternKat Rose...

What does the Court of Appeal's decision in Unwired Planet [2018] EWCA Civ 2344 mean for standard essential patent litigation and the English Courts as a jurisdiction for FRAND disputes? Readers can recap on the Court of Appeal's judgment here .   On Tuesday evening, the UK Group of AIPPI held a Rapid Response seminar on the Court of Appeal's decision, lead by Professor Sir Robin Jacob (UCL) and Richard Vary (Bird & Bird).  Kat friend Zoe Fuller (Bird & Bird) was on hand to bring details of this informative and entertaining discussion to IPKat readers - over to Zoe to relay the evening's discussion: A FRAND licence - a global creature like the IPKat The Judgment  The three points on appeal were as follows: 1. Is a FRAND licence global or national? Patent licences and patent portfolios are very often global. It may be impractical for a patent owner to seek to negotiate a licence of its patent rights, or commence litigation, country by country. The Court...

Take out your agendas! It's time to note down some dates: Events A pun-tastic event will take place on 17 November in the framework of Bookcity Milan:  Ho preso l'influencer (literally, "I've got the influenzar"). It will feature speakers  Antonio Dikele Distefano, Guglielmo Panzera, Matteo Fumagalli, Rita Tardiolo ed Edoardo Barbera and IPKat own Eleonora Rosati. During the session, the main topic under discussion will be the use of social networks for professional success. For more information, see here . The 4iP Council is hosting on 22 November the  Webinar on industry challenges after recent case-law on confidentiality of FRAND agreements, and other relevant aspects of FRAND case law - your questions answered.  The Webinar will be p resented by  Dr. Peter Georg Picht, LL.M., followed by a Q&A. See  here  for more information.  The 10th  Intellectual Property Case Law Seminar   hosted by the   Royal Society of Chemistry wi...

The Court of Appeal bats around global FRAND rates Following this morning's Court of Appeal hand down, patent litigators across the UK and further afield have been analyzing the judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei [2018] EWCA Civ 2344 .   The AmeriKat was only able to briefly summarize the findings, so had to rely on her friends at Bird & Bird (sounds like dinner to the AmeriKat...) in the form of Jane Mutimear and Richard Vary who expand on the Court of Appeal's findings as follows: "The Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the Unwired Planet v Huawei appeal this morning (23 October 2018).   The bench consisted of Lord Justice Kitchin (now Lord Kitchin since his elevation last month to the Supreme Court), Lord Justice Floyd and Lady Justice Asplin. They handed down a 291 paragraph, 66 page judgment dealing with Huawei's appeal and Unwired Planet's cross-appeal against Birss J's findings Huawei would be subject to an injunction in the UK unless they...

The AmeriKat reading the  Court of Appeal judgment The AmeriKat frequently prowls the Daily Cause List ( the list of scheduled hearings and decisions in the English Courts) searching for interesting IP hearings and decisions being handed down.  Although the Unwired Planet appeal hearing was in May, no sign of the Court of Appeal's decision was appearing in the Daily Cause List.  The overheated English summer saw no sign.  Nor did the first windy days of the new Court term.  But then, there it was.  On Friday afternoon, it appeared on the AmeriKat's screen as follows: TUESDAY, 23 OCTOBER, 2018 in COURT 74, at 10.30, Judgment will be given in the following: APPEAL From The Chancery Division Patents Court FINAL DECISIONS A3/2017/1784 Unwired Planet International Limited and anr -v- Huawei Technologies Co. Limited and anr. This will be an important decision for global FRAND/SEP litigation and strategy (see previous reports here ).  One of the key issue...

If you are interested in and/or working in the field of patent law, then you may be happy to hear that the 12 th Annual Standards & Patents Conference is taking place in London on 5 and 6 December. The focus of this year’s event is on – inter alia – patents and standards, FRAND licensing, competition, litigation, SEP in the IoT, AI, and Open Source. Speakers include in-house and external counsel, IP management experts, and members of the judiciary. The other good news is that our friends at KNect365 are offering IPKat readers a 15% discount on the registration fee. For more information, click here and use the VIP code FKW82868IPKE to register.