UK judges to set tech patent rates
Supreme court rules that how much Huawei owes US patent owner will be decided in a British court
London — UK judges can set global royalty rates for the use of telecommunications technology, Britain’s highest court said in a pair of cases over how much Huawei Technologies owes a US patent owner.
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a decision that Huawei would either have to pay Unwired Planet International a global rate set by judges or face an order limiting its British sales. In a related decision involving another patent owner, the court rejected Huawei and ZTE’s argument that, if any court were to establish a global rate, it should be in China, where manufacturing and the bulk of sales are located...
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