Compliant and Infringer at the same time !
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has just recalled that one can comply with an international standard for telephony and infringe a patent.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has just upheld on appeal several judgments condemning telephone operators (including Huawei), for having infringed British patents considered essential to the implementation of international standards for telephony, by continuing to exploit them after the corresponding license expiration.
On this occasion, the Court confirms that the contractual provisions which the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has created under its IPR Policy, do indeed give jurisdiction to the English courts to rule on the terms of a global license of a portfolio of multinational patents.