Vodafone faces High Court battle over 4G patent claim

Vodafone will face a High Court patent battle over its 4G emergency network technology with a licensing company that has previously chased billions of pounds worth of royalties from tech giants, including Apple.

The UK-listed telecoms company faces a claim understood to be worth in excess of £100m from Germany's IPCom, a private-equity backed licensing firm, over claims Vodafone has infringed its network patents.

IPCom claims Vodafone has breached a patent for giving mobile phones access to the LTE network, including technology that gives emergency service calls priority on the network. The case will go to trial in November.

Vodafone is the latest technology company targeted by IPCom, which has...

Read the full article on The Telegraph | July 2019

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