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Intellectual Property Law

SJ Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

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2020

Injunction

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Will China's New Anti-Suit Injunctions Shift The Balance Of Global Frand Litigation?, Jorge L. Contreras Dec 2020

Will China's New Anti-Suit Injunctions Shift The Balance Of Global Frand Litigation?, Jorge L. Contreras

Utah Law Faculty Scholarship

By issuing anti-suit injunctions (ASIs) in Conversant v. Huawei and InterDigital v. Xiaomi in late 2020, Chinese courts have signaled a new willingness to vie for jurisdictional authority in global battles over standard-essential patents and FRAND licensing. While the Supreme People’s Court in Conversant largely followed the pattern of US and UK courts that have issued ASIs in similar cases, the ruling of the Wuhan court in InterDigital is far broader in two major respects. First, its geographic scope is not limited to the country in which InterDigital sought injunctive relief (India), but extends to all jurisdictions in the world. …