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FRAND case Huawei ./. Verizon, with a Swiss touch

I have reported about the first FRAND case at the FPC on this Blog a while ago.

I have learned from the 2022 edition of the iam patent 1000 guide released last week that there was some spill-over of the US litigation between Huawei and Verizon to Switzerland:

iam patent 1000 (full text here)
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Andrea MONDINI had been appointed by Verizon as Swiss law expert. Not much is known about this case, in particular not the FRAND terms agreed upon the midst of a jury trial in Texas (US) in July 2021 (see Bloomberg). See Huawei’s initial Statement of Claim and the Claim Construction Memorandum Opinion and Order for further information on the merits of the case before the jury in Texas.

I have been informed that Andrea MONDINI submitted several expert reports and declarations on licensing of SEPs on FRAND terms under Swiss law because the FRAND declarations have been declared by Huawei to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which has its seat in Geneva.

UPDATE 4 July 2022: In a first version of this post, I assumed that there has been a co-pending case at the FPC between Huawei and Verizon. Now I know that I was wrong. The post above has been rectified accordingly.

/MW

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News from yesteryear: The first FRAND case at the FPC

Apparently, the FPC had to deal with its first FRAND case already back in 2018, but it had been settled and thus no judgment is available. Not even the parties are known. But what is known is the following:

According to this source, the case

    • had been pending at the FPC;
    • Andri HESS (Homburger) represented two clients in the dispute; and
    • the case has ultimately been settled, presumably already back in 2018.
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From this source, I conclude that MLL represented the counterparty.

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As you may imagine, I’m bursting with curiosity. But I could not get hold of any further information about this case by now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Now it’s your turn … 😉

By the way, for those of you who are interested in FRAND cases, the European Commissions’ JRC Report on Licensing Terms of Standard Essential Patents of 2017 gives an excellent overview of cases.

Reported by Martin WILMING

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