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With record-setting Optis judgment, UK court chips away at dual criticisms

By Melissa Ritti ( May 5, 2025, 15:00 GMT | Comment) -- An almost tenfold increase in damages owed to Optis for infringement by Apple seemingly posed little trouble for the UK Court of Appeal last week. In ruling against the software giant and refusing to put their thumb on the scale of parallel US proceedings, the panel hit back at the narratives they are an implementer-friendly court prone to British “imperialism.” Optis and Apple must now shift their focus to those same US proceedings, where a hearing is planned for Friday.The UK Court of Appeal made it clear in last week’s $502 million judgment they view matters of standard essential patent, or SEP, infringement as intensively fact-specific, and that among the most important facts in that inquiry are the parties’ pre-suit actions....

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