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Tesla's UK FRAND action against Avanci and InterDigital has been thrown out: no serious issue to be tried.

Tesla wanted to get a global FRAND determination for the entire Avanci 5G pool from the UK court.

Only the technical claims against specific InterDigital patents survived the jurisdictional challenge, though they allegedly constituted an abuse of process.

 Mr Justice Fancourt allowed an appeal and stayed the technical claims for case management reasons.

The High Court has provided ip fray with a copy of the judgment. A detailed analysis will follow. ip fray followed the hearing via a livestream and was skeptical of there being a claim against an optional pool licensing offer, though a lot of claims have recently survived jurisdictional challenges in the UK that should have been thrown out. That fact makes this outcome all the more significant.