TCL Commc’n Tech Holdings Ltd v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 5 December 2019

David McCombs, Eugene Goryunov, and Angela Oliver, Haynes and Boone

In TCL, the court focused on the release payment term(and its characterisation) as the basis for the right to a trial by jury.But other licensing structures may not include such a term or could attempt tocharacterise a similar term as equitable, potentially negating the need for ajury.