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English High Court Backs Unwired Planet in Huawei FRAND Claim

2017/04/07

The English High Court backed licensing company Unwired Planet in its patent dispute with Chinese technology business Huawei.
Back in March 2014, Unwired Planet sued Huawei, Samsung and Google, alleging infringement of six UK patents. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s policy requires that a patentee declaring patents as standard-essential commits to licensing those patents on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms.
Unwired made a further offer in July 2014, only covering the company’s SEPs, but this was rejected as not meeting FRAND standards by the defendants. As a result of directions from the court, in June 2015 each side made certain open offers of licensing terms.
The main dispute that had to be resolved was whether and to what extent various terms on offer are or would be FRAND, with one key issue being the value of Unwired’s patents reflected in the royalty rates.

Source: WIPR
　　




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