ALERT: UNILATERAL PRACTICE - PRELIMINARY RULING - ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION - PATENT INFRINGEMENT - INJUNCTION - DAMAGES - PATENT WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO A STANDARD

Abuse of dominant position : The Court of Justice of the European Union hints at what could be a loyal process of negociations of FRAND licences for patents which are essential to a standard (Huawei Technologies/ZTE)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. CJEU, 16 July 2015, Case C-170/13 (Huawei Technologies/ZTE) On 16 July 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a judgment in Case C-170/13 (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd v ZTE Corp., ZTE Deutschland GmbH).. This case follows a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) in proceedings between two global operators in the telecommunications sector - Huawei and ZTE. Huawei holds one of the 4,700 patents "essential" to the implementation of the "Long Term Evolution" (LTE) standard established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ("ETSI"), a standard used for 4G mobile communications. Huawei

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