Get Your Hands Off My Patent: Adjudication of Foreign Patents Under a Licence Agreement in the UK Court

For various reasons, businesses and rights holders like to bring patent-related proceedings to the UK court. In addition to the normal situation of litigating UK patents, increasingly the UK court is willing to rule on infringement of foreign patents in the context of contractual disputes, given parties to licence agreements often agree via exclusive jurisdiction clauses to litigate in the UK court on infringement of a patent portfolio which includes both UK and foreign patents.