An overview of licensing and antitrust issues in United Kingdom, including anticompetitive restraints, refusals to license, and unfair and discriminatory licensing.
A brief overview of the law and practice surrounding standard-essential patents in United Kingdom, including abuse-of-dominance issues, injunctions and FRAND licensing.
A brief look at the key elements of the legal framework governing private antitrust actions in United Kingdom (England & Wales), including applicable legislation, requirements and restrictions.
I submitted comments to the US Department of Justice’s call for comments that we previously discussed here. Since they are rather long, I have decided to serialize them over a series of.
The High Court recently declined to lift a stay of the hearing of an application for the enforcement, under the Arbitration Act 1996, of certain arbitral awards and a related jurisdictional objection by the respondent (Russia) on grounds of sovereign immunity. Among other things, a court's powers under the Arbitration Act to order an adjournment of proceedings and the payment of security are not applicable where there is an unresolved state immunity challenge under the State Immunity Act.