Friday, March 12, 2021
Antisuit follow-up: deference to foreign jurisdictions ranges from never to always ; and what role could standard-setting organizations play?
First, for the sake of completeness I must point out that the German zero-deference doctrine (sanctity of patents beats everything and warrants self-defense) and the multifactorial analysis performed by U.S. and Chinese courts are not the only two frameworks. There s a spectrum, and the longer it takes to resolve the current antisuit crisis, the more variants we will see.
The extent to which courts in one country defer to injunctions or ongoing SEP-related proceedings in another can range from 0% to 100%. I ll use four words without any intent to allude to a movie title:
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Interview: Uber driver Yaseen Aslam on his Supreme Court battle and what’s next for gig workers
Private hire driver and union organiser Yaseen Aslam speaks to Computer Weekly about his legal battle with Uber and what the UK Supreme Court ruling means to workers in the gig economy
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This includes the right to be paid the national minimum wage, to receive statutory minimum holiday pay and rest breaks, as well as protection from unlawful discrimination and whistleblowing.
Before the ruling, Uber classified its drivers as self-employed, independent workers on the basis that its app merely connects drivers with potential customers – a position the company has maintained throughout four years of legal proceedings and appeals that took the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
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