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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...

Earlier this year, the Swedish Patent and Market Court was requested to issue an injunction against Swedish internet service provider  Telia Company (Telia) to block access to the likes of The Pirate Bay, Dreamfilm, Nyafilmer, Fmovies, and several other related proxies and mirror sites [ here ] . Following the application, the Patent and Market Court ordered Telia - by way of an interim ruling – to block access to the above-mentioned sites. The blocking order would come into effect by the end of this month. Several of the sites at issue give access to works protected by copyright either through links to torrent sites (eg, The Pirate Bay) or by enabling users to upload/download and make available those works without the consent of relevant rightholders. Section 53B (first sentence thereof) of the Swedish Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works (1960:729) (SCA) states that, upon application by a rightholder, a court may issue an injunction prohibiting, on a penalty of a ...