Broadcom suing Deutsche Telekom in Unified Patent Court after settling with Telefónica, winning injunction against Renault

Context:

• Broadcom’s Germany-wide standard-essential patent (SEP) injunction against Renault (February 6, 2026 ip fray article) was one the biggest SEP news items in the first six weeks of the year. Renault can try to get the Munich injunction stayed. That won’t be easy (February 10, 2026 ip fray article), and even if it happened, sooner or later Broadcom will prevail.
• Earlier this month we also discovered a deal between Broadcom and Spain’s Telefónica thanks to a Unified Patent Court (UPC) document (February 5, 2026 LinkedIn post by ip fray).
• Another famous example of a European company ending up paying Broadcom is the approximately $1B deal between Volkswagen and Broadcom in the late 2010s, after an injunction based on a patent Nintendo later proved invalid.
• Broadcom is the first trillion-dollar company with an active patent program that involves enforcement (February 7, 2026 ip fray article). While it is only the seventh-largest U.S. technology company, it is about as large as the entire European tech sector.

What’s new: Broadcom subsidiary CA is now suing Deutsche Telekom in the UPC’s Munich Local Division (LD) over EP1955151 (“Automated deployment and configuration of applications in an autonomically controlled distributed computing system”). Broadcom previously used this patent against Telefónica.

Direct impact: The fact that Telefónica settled prior to a decision does not mean that Deutsche Telekom will do the same. But Broadcom has other patents in its portfolio that it might assert as well. In the end, the question is not whether Deutsche Telekom will take a license, but when and on what terms.

Wider ramifications: Broadcom’s licensing program is exacerbating Europe’s massive IP trade deficit vis-à-vis the U.S. and digital colonization by the U.S. (January 1, 2026 ip fray article).