Navigating intellectual property disputes requires strategic decisions on the most effective resolution paths. This session explores the full range of options available to tech companies—from mediation and arbitration to licensing, opposition, and litigation. Gain insight into when each tool is best suited, how to manage IP portfolios proactively, support innovation teams, and balance the operational and financial impact of disputes on your business.

• Explore the expanding role of mediation and arbitration as faster, cost-effective alternatives to traditional litigation in various IP disputes.

• Understand the potential impact of the new UPC Mediation and Arbitration Centre in Ljubljana, and how it may change dispute resolution for European patent holders and implementers.

• Understand how strategic licensing and portfolio management can help avoid costly conflicts and support innovation.

• Discuss when to escalate matters through opposition proceedings or litigation and how to prepare for large scale enforcement campaigns globally.

Competition authorities are playing an increasingly influential role in shaping SEP and FRAND disputes worldwide. This session examines how regulators—from the European Commission to antitrust bodies in Brazil, India, and the US— are impacting injunction enforcement, licensing conduct, and broader litigation strategies. Panellists will discuss the political and consumer protection pressures driving authority interventions and how these forces interact with ongoing court cases and regulatory reforms.

• Analyse how competition authorities in Europe, Brazil, India, and the US influence injunction policies and SEP licensing practices.

• Discuss key investigations and decisions, including the European Commission’s amicus briefs and Brazilian antitrust probes into preliminary injunctions.

• Understand the evolving intersection of antitrust enforcement with SEP litigation and how it affects parties’ negotiation and enforcement strategies.

With preliminary injunctions becoming a decisive battleground in global SEP and FRAND disputes, this session explores how courts across key jurisdictions are shaping access to—and constraints on—injunctive relief. From the Vodafone/HMD matter in Germany to expanding dockets in Brazil, India, and China, this session unpacks strategic use of injunctions by both SEP holders and implementers, while spotlighting where legal frameworks may shift next. Explore how national courts and the UPC are interpreting proportionality, the influence of the European Commission, and the contrasting positions across global IP enforcement venues.

• Compare how courts in Germany, the UK, the UPC, and the US weigh proportionality, public interest, and enforcement policy when determining injunction relief in SEP cases

• Examine the rising use of anti-suit and anti-anti-suit injunctions in China, India, and the US, and how they affect global access to courts and the ability to litigate or settle FRAND terms.

• Explore how jurisdictions like Brazil and Colombia are shaping global negotiations through low-cost, fast granting preliminary injunctions and limited review of FRAND defences.

• Discuss the possibilities of Injunctive relief in the USA and a change from the eBay standard.