Intellectual Property Magazine
Vodafone loses Court of Appeal motion against IPCom
Dispute over emergency use of patents by government departments upheld by court; IPCom appeal endorsed by UK defence secretary
Ben Wodecki
The UK government holds the right to authorise the use of patented inventions – subject to an obligation for it to pay compensation to the rightsholder – but it must exercise that right by either expressly identifying the patent in question or require a service or product that necessarily infringed the patent, the England & Wales Court of Appeal has ruled.The rest of this document is only available to i-law.com online subscribers.
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