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Temperature rises between patent courts around Europe over FRAND policy

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( October 24, 2025, 13:07 GMT | Comment) -- Next week will see the first in a clutch of court hearings aimed at resolving the impasse between UK and EU courts over the right to make extra-territorial rulings on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, rates for patents. But the newly discovered strategic benefits of playing divide-and-conquer with judges threaten to make an already laborious litigation process even more formidable.The issuing of the first anti-interim license injunction by the Unified Patent Court and the Higher Regional Court of Munich (see here) has raised the temperature between courts in both the UK and the EU....

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