Apple Retail UK Ltd v Qualcomm (UK) Ltd [2018] EWHC 1188 (Pat)
Brian Nicholson and Christopher Hall act for the claimant in the global litigation between Apple and Qualcomm. The dispute raises several issues including FRAND licensing, patent exhaustion, and competition law. In this latest stage, Morgan J delivered a judgment on the scope of the jurisdiction of the English courts, in particular finding that a claim for a declaration as to exhaustion of rights in a patent is validly served on a foreign party under CPR 63.14 at the registered service address for that patent in the UK.