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Patents - IPCom GmbH & Co Kg v Vodafone Group Plc

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  Author  Goodtiming8871   Licence CC BY=SA 4 ,- Source Wikipedia Wireless     J ane Lambert Court of Appeal ( Lord Justice Lewison, Lady Justice Asplin and Lord Justice Arnold) IPCom GmbH & Co Kg v Vodafone Group Plc and others  [2021] EWCA Civ 205 (19 Feb 2021) This was an appeal by both sides against the judgment of Mr Recorder Campbell QC in IPcom GmbH & Co Kg v Vodafone Group Plc and others [2020] EWHC 132 (Pat) (28 Jan 2020).  That had been a claim by  IPCpm GmbH & Co Kg  against several companies in the Vodafone group for infringement of European Patent (UK) number EP2579666B1for Allocation of access rights for a telecommunications channel to subscriber stations of a telecommunications network . Mr Justice Birss had ordered the trial to dispose of some of the issues in a wider dispute over whether the Vodafone companies were obliged to take a licence from IPCom on FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory)...

The Labour Party's Proposals for Patent Reform

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Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert It is not often that intellectual property is discussed at a party conference.  While public attention was focused on the Supreme Court's decision in  R (Miller) v The Prime Minister  [2019] UKSC 41, the leader of the opposition made this very interesting commitment in his  speech  to the Labour Party conference: "We will redesign the system to serve public health – not private wealth – using compulsory licensing to secure generic versions of patented medicines. We’ll tell the drugs companies that if they want public research funding then they’ll have to make their drugs affordable for all. And we will create a new publicly owned generic drugs manufacturer to supply cheaper medicines to our NHS saving our health service money and saving lives. We are the party that created the NHS. Only Labour can be trusted with its future." He made that commitment after talking about the child in the video above.  According t...