Tesla eyes 5G rollout in UK as landmark Supreme Court ruling ‘shifts balance towards implementers’

By allowing Tesla’s appeal against InterDigital and its licensing platform Avanci over patent royalty rates, the UK's highest court has made a pivotal decision that alters the course of global SEP disputes heard in England & Wales.

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