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UK panel explains decision to allow Amazon to appeal interim license holding

By Melissa Ritti ( January 28, 2025, 18:40 GMT | Insight) -- A written opinion this morning by the UK Court of Appeal explains the reasoning behind their recent allowance of an appeal sought by Amazon, of a September 2024 holding that refused the streaming service’s request for permission to argue Nokia and subsidiary Alcatel-Lucent are unwilling licensors of the Nokia video codec patent portfolio. There could be rough sledding ahead for the telecom giant, with the panel taking Nokia to task for advancing inconsistent positions on the role courts should play in disputes over reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or RAND, license terms to standard essential patents.Judge Richard Arnold, writing for a three-member panel of the UK Court of Appeal, issued a written ruling this morning outlining the rationale behind a recent verbal decision to grant Amazon a second swing at claims Nokia qualifies as an unwilling licensor of patents declared essential to the H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC standards....

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