Patents - Conversant Wireless Licensing v Apple Retail UK and Others
Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Birss) Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL v Apple Retail UK Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 3266 (Pat) (29 Nov 2019) This was a claim for the infringement of British patent GB2365712 , The claimant, Conversant Wireless Licensing Sarl , has acquired a large patent portfolio in mobile telecommunications and related technologies (including the patent in suit) which it offers to license. It alleged that certain features of the user interface of the iPhone infringed the patent. Apple Inc and its British and Irish subsidiaries denied infringement and challenged the validity of the patent on grounds of obviousness . There was also an application by Conversant to amend the patent mainly by substituting the words "smartp phone" for "computing device" wherever they occurred and adding some wording to Claim 1. The action came on before Mr Justice Birss who tried it on the 4, 5, 6 and 8 Nov and ...