Law360, New York (January 20, 2011, 6:59 PM ET) -- In the latest stage of a €12 billion ($16.2 billion) international patent battle, a British appeals court ruled Thursday in Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia GmbH's favor and threw out two cell phone patents held by a German patent-licensing company.
IPCom GmbH & Co. KG improperly tried to amend one of the patents-in-suit during lower court litigation, a three-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ruled.
"It is not normally procedurally fair to subject the other side to successive cases when you could readily have put...