Paul Brown

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property

Patents

IP Litigation, Arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Career

Please see https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/paul-brown for further information.

Professional Memberships

Member, Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

Member, AIPPI

Languages Spoken

English

Experience

Paul’s primary focus is providing market leading advice on patent related disputes in the electronics and medical devices sector. His practice is multi-jurisdictional with deep legal knowledge of the substantive and procedural laws in each jurisdiction. He advises clients in relation to licensing and strategic planning, but he is predominantly known for his contentious work.

In the electronics sector, Paul advises on a variety of noteworthy and complex cases regarding both assertion of patents and defence against infringement claims in disputes. For example, Paul led the team advising OPPO on two global disputes against Nokia and Philips relating to the terms of FRAND licences. Each of these cases were multifaceted, multi-jurisdictional disputes with the potential to significantly impact our clients’ global operations, and Paul coordinated the FRAND defences globally. In the Nokia case, Paul’s strategy kept OPPO on the market in the UK and the arguments were considered important enough for Mr Justice Meade to grant a very rare “leapfrog” appeal, where he gave OPPO permission to apply to appeal to the Supreme Court directly. Paul also advises in negotiations and is currently involved in matters for a number of clients in the IoT sphere negotiating with major SEP holders.

Paul also led the UK team advising Amazon in relation to a FRAND licence determination, as part of a global dispute with Nokia relating to video-coding technology, a case that was recognised as being one of the top 20 litigation cases in the UK in 2025 by The Lawyer. Prior to settlement, this case had the potential to set the direction in which the video patent licensing industry goes, and would have answered some key questions relating to the obligations on the holder of video SEPs. Paul also leads the team representing Amazon against InterDigital in a new UK claim.

Paul is a UPC Representative through his Irish qualification and is able to represent clients in UK and UPC proceedings. He represented Transsion against Qualcomm prior to that dispute settling.

Work Highlights

- Leading a team representing an implementer in a dispute over the RAND value of a licence of video technology.

- Leading Hogan Lovells’ representation of OPPO against Nokia and Philips in UK technical and FRAND litigation, including coordination of OPPO’s global FRAND strategy in both disputes.

- Representing a major smartphone manufacturer in pre-action disclosure proceedings to obtain licences, calculate FRAND offers and assist in negotiations over licences for various technologies.

- Advising a major smartphone manufacturer in confidential arbitration relating to the FRAND value of a SEP portfolio held by a well-known licensor.

- Representing a major telecoms network in expedited litigation against IPCom concerning the infringement and validity of alleged SEPs and FRAND-related issues.

- Representing a major telecoms network in litigation with Intellectual Ventures over the FRAND value of a licence of a portfolio of alleged SEPs.

- Representing a major electronics manufacturer in a dispute with Nokia relating to cellular and video coding SEPs.

- Representing a major electronics manufacturer in a dispute with Ericsson in relation to a portfolio of cellular SEPs.

- Representing HTC in multiple litigations in the UK, including against IPCom, against Philips and against Nokia.

- Representing ZTE against Ericsson in patent litigation proceedings relating to SEPs, including vocoders.

- Representing AGA Medical Corporation in patent litigation against Occlutech relating to atrial septal defect occluders.

- Representing Merz Pharma against Synthon in an action about Supplementary Protection Certificates.

- Representing Medinol against Abbott in English and Irish patent litigation proceedings relating to coronary stents.

- Representing Garmin against TomTom in multi-patent litigation relating to user interfaces.

- Providing an opinion on infringement, and non-infringement arguments, in relation to mechanical products for a major engine producer.