FRANDly Chat

About FRANDly Chat

Our patent litigators and competition lawyers have a keen interest in coffee chats and FRAND (often both at the same time). One day, it was suggested that they capture these discussions and share them with the world. Please join them for their FRANDly Chats about the key FRAND developments in the UK and beyond. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording.

Publisher

Bristows LLP

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Oct 2022

Latest episode

31 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Jul 2026

   No roadblocks for Tesla in the Supreme Court

   Earlier this week, the UK Supreme Court decided that the UK court has jurisdiction to determine a claim challenging the FRAND rates offered by SEP holders as part of pool or platform joint licensing. In today's episode of a FRANDly Chat, Sam Harvey and Richard Pinckney pick out some interesting points from the judgment. You can find Bristows' written analyses of the judgment via the links below: Stop press: UK Supreme Court decision in Tesla v InterDigital & Avanci, Nadine Bleach Op...

2. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Nokia judgments from the Court of Appeal

   Naomi Hazenberg and Sam Harvey explore two judgments from the Court of Appeal in Acer & ASUS v Nokia. Both have leading judgments from Lord Justice Arnold, and they came in quick succession in early May. They focus on the effect of a specific interim licence offer and what that can mean in the context for an implementer action, and also the jurisdictional gateways for those claims. Note: All information was correct at the time of recording.

3. 

   7 May 2026

   The UK's interim FRAND licence regime: where are we now?

   Join Matthew Hunt and Sam Harvey for a whistlestop tour of the past year (and a bit) of interim licence judgments, working through cases such as Lenovo v Ericsson, Samsung v ZTE, ASUS v Nokia and more... Is the UK's interim licence regime here to stay and what happens next? Note: All information was correct at the time of recording.

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Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

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36

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

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