Patents - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Archos SA and others
Author Dori Public Domain Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and another v Archos SA and others [[2021] EWHC 1639 (Pat) (16 June 2021) The first claimant is the proprietor of European patents 2,254,259 ("259") and 1,903 689 ("689") . They are part of a portfolio called the "MCP Pool!" which the claimants have promised to license on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("FRAND") terms. The defendants are manufacturers of 4G mobile phones. The claimants argued that the defendants required their licence in order to comply with the LTE (4G) standard concerned with the transmission of a scheduling request (SR) to request uplink resources. The defendants denied that those patents were essential for compliance with the patent and pleaded that the patents were invalid for lack of novelty and an inventive step. They also alleged that 689 was bad for ad...