This week Bristows is sponsoring, and I have the privilege to be speaking alongside fellow Bristows partner Myles Jelf and a host of luminaries from the world of SEPs and FRAND at OxFirst’s Third IP and Competition Forum in Brussels. The Forum will be addressing a range of issues such as the EU’s position on FRAND licensing and SEPs, the role of the judiciary in patent governance, and evolutions in case law on SEPs around the world.

I will be speaking on recent case law in light of the Huawei v ZTE decision, including the Court of Appeal’s recent Unwired Planet v Huawei decision (on which we reported here), which will be compared with the approach taken in cases elsewhere in Europe.