Context: Tulip Innovation Kft. is a Budapest-based licensing agent that in May 2024 launched a program aggregating more than 5,000 battery patents owned by LG Energy Solution and Panasonic Energy, the largest such patent pool in the battery industry to date. Since then, Tulip has been monetizing and enforcing that portfolio against battery manufacturers as well as the automakers that use their batteries. For more on the wider campaign, see below.
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Court and counsel
Munich I Regional Court, 7th Civil Chamber: Presiding Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen (“Schön”; March 30, 2026 ip fray interview), Judge Katalin Tözsér, and Judge Dr. Florian Schweyer.
Tulip was represented by Hogan Lovells’s (ip fray firm profile) Dr. Andreas von Falck and Dr. Alexander Klicznik (against Dacia) and Quinn Emanuel (against Nissan).
Nissan and Renault/Dacia were represented by Bird & Bird.