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6 December 2019PatentsRory O'Neill

Fed Circuit overturns TCL v Ericsson SEP ruling

A long-running dispute over standard-essential patent (SEP) licences will be sent back to a jury after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned a district court injunction in Ericsson v TCL.

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