Adrian Speck QC, Mark Chacksfield and Tom Jones (instructed by EIP legal) recently appeared for Unwired Planet in the third of four technical trials (Trial C) concerning alleged infringement of patents held by Unwired Planet and said to be essential to various mobile telecommunications standards. The trial concerned the alleged infringement of patent EP (UK) 1,230,818, entitled “a method for improving handovers between mobile telecommunications systems”.
Following trial, Birss J found the patent to be valid and infringed, and essential to the relevant telecoms standards.