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It seems like this is the part that most offends Apple:

“* In 2020, the UK Supreme Court ruled a UK court can set the rate for patent payments worldwide, despite the court only being able to consider the infringement of UK patents.*”

If every country took that approach that the UK Court seems to be taking, international trade would suffer greatly.

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This is not for patent disputes in general, only disputes involving standard essential patents (SEPs), which these are. The court took standards setting organisation powers to decide fair, reasonable, and non‑discriminatory (FRAND) terms for global application. FRAND licences are global by their nature, so we shouldn't be surprised that the Supreme Court asserted this in its decision.

This isn't UK over-reach, but an application of international standard approach, afaict.

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