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The rightholder IPCom has i n dealing with various mobile operators suffered two setbacks. The Munich district court dismissed an infringement action by IPCom, a mobile radio patent, also the German Federal Patent Court declared the German part of the European patent application 114 to be void. The amount in dispute was at 30 million euros each.

Bernhard Frohwitter

In proceedings before the Munich District Court are available to the patent exploiter O2/Telefonica as a defendant as well as Nokia and HTC against intervene. IPCom expects the same patent on a method for operating mobile networks also against other mobile operators before. Before the Mannheim Regional Court to Vodafone faces a lawsuit in Dusseldorf to IPCom and Nokia are facing. Also in this method IPCom drew the short straw yet. Both courts denied the claim from the BND, whereupon IPCom filed an appeal.

is disagreement between the parties as to whether the 114 patent is relevant standard. Since the Munich Regional Court rejected but a conviction for violation of the issue of a compulsory license was in the process do not apply.

IPCom and Nokia have since 2008 alternately in opposite processes (more …). The current judgments come just months after IPCom won the greatest success in the previous discussion of the mobile industry. In June, the German Telekom had struggled through the comparison with the patent exploiter (more …).

representatives IPCom
Frohwitter (Munich): Dr. Roman Sedlmaier, Bernhard Frohwitter, Jan Gigerich (patent attorney)
Hengeler Mueller (Dusseldorf) : Wolfgang Kellenter; associate Matthias redhead
warrior Mes & Graf von der Groeben (Dusseldorf): Axel Verhauwen
df-mp ( Munich) David Molnia (patent attorney)
house (Pullach): Christoph Schoeller

representatives Telefónica Germany
Müller Fottner corner stone (Munich): Dr. Markus Müller
RCD patent (Jülich): Thilo Schmelcher (Patent Attorney)
house (Munich): Tobias Kretschmer

Nokia representative
Bird & Bird (Dusseldorf): Oliver recently; Associate: Florian Schmidt-Bogatzky
Samson & Partners (Munich ): Friedrich von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg Jacoby (patent attorneys)
house (Ratingen): Dr. Clemens-August Heusch

representatives HTC
Hogan Lovells (Dusseldorf): Dr. Martin Chakraborty; Associate: Dr. Henrik Lehment
Müller Hoffmann & Partners ( Munich, Germany): Dr. Nils Jensen (patent attorney)
Achim Müller (Munich, Patent Attorney)
King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (Munich): Dr. Michael bud, Axel Walz, Massimo Bellitto-Grillo (all antitrust)

LG Munich, 7 Civil Chamber
Dr. Matthias Zigann (Presiding Judge)

Federal Patent Court in Munich, 5 Nullity Senate
Wolfgang Gutermuth (Presiding Judge)

Oliver recently

Background: All participating firms belong to the tribe of advisors of their clients. They are partly as Hengeler Mueller, Bird & Bird or Hogan Lovells for IPCom, HTC and Nokia beginning of the conflict with the party.

only change was in the patent law consultants from HTC. Originally, the firm Wagner & Geyer had led the opposition against the 114 patent before the European Patent Office for the Taiwanese. For the infringement or revocation proceedings HTC mandated then the Munich patent law firm Müller Hoffmann & Partner. This resulted in the injury, Nils Jensen revocation proceedings by JUVE information Achim Müller. Achim Müller has since left the firm, he has since the beginning of September examiner at the European Patent Office (Mathieu Klos)