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UK High Court construes limitations of Ericsson, Motorola Mobility agreement

By Melissa Ritti ( March 11, 2025, 14:56 GMT | Insight) -- The high-stakes, cross-border battle between Ericsson and Lenovo over interim and final fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or Frand, terms for a global license to 5G standard essential patents played no part in a decision today by UK High Court Judge Richard Meade which drilled down on the terms of a 2011 cross-license between a Lenovo subsidiary and the Swedish SEP owner.  He went on to reject, in part, both parties’ competing interpretations of the agreement and the forward-looking limitations it placed on Motorola Mobility.While the interpretation of a 2011 global license agreement by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson is “less than perfect, it is still much better” than the “phone-is-a-phone approach” advocated by Motorola Mobility LLC, which fails to give weight to “all parts” of a key clause limiting commercial activities, the UK High Court ruled today....

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