SEPs: U.K. Supreme Court’s Landmark Judgement
In this article, we discuss the landmark judgment on the Standard essential platform popularly known as SEP in the context of the patent (intellectual property rights). We will discuss the background of the case and the issues connected with the same. In the end, we discussed the impacts of the judgment made by the English judicial system. The ruling in the cases of Unwired Planet v. Huawei and Conversant Wireless v. Huawei & ZTE has just been released by the UK Supreme Court (UKSC). Two lengthy legal battles within the English judiciary have come to a close, resolving issues that are crucial to the telecom sector. Both cases included a clash involving the regional focus of patents as well as the international scope of the telecommunications regulatory framework.
