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London law firm EIP squares up to giants Samsung and Huawei in patent case

EIP, a specialist intellectual property law firm, have secured another success against global electronics giants Samsung and Huawei in an ongoing patent case.

The law firm, which also has offices in Tokyo and San Diego amongst others, represented US technology firm Unwired Planet in an ongoing patent dispute over its mobile infrastructure patents.

This latest success, the third of five UK patent trials scheduled before July, relates to patents on technology that handles handsets moving from 2G to 3G and 4G networks, and follows a successful judgement against Samsung, Huawei and LG in Dusseldorf in January.

The patent case relates to over 2,000 standard-essential patents (SEP) that Ericsson sold to Unwired Planet in 2013. SEPs cover standardised technology that is essential to specific technical standards, such as telecoms infrastructure.

Commenting on this second UK success, Head of EIP Legal, Gary Moss, said: “We are delighted with this latest success coming on top of our previous successes in both the UK and Germany.

“Once again this was a very hard fought trial with the Defendants throwing everything possible at the patent, but it survived a very detailed examination by the Court.

By degrees we are succeeding in establishing that the Unwired Planet portfolio has real value and that it cannot be ignored by the implementers of the telecoms standards.

“This latest decision, along with our earlier successes in both the UK and Germany, highlight that Europe is a very effective jurisdiction in which to prove the value of these types of patents.”

Unwired Planet’s General Counsel, Noah Mesel added: “This is now our fifth success in Europe, and once again we are extremely pleased with the result.

“This latest victory, coupled with our earlier successes in both the UK and Germany, establishes beyond doubt the need for the manufacturers of handsets and infrastructure equipment that implement telecoms standards to licence our portfolio.

“That is what we set out to do when we decided to commence litigation nearly three years ago.”

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