On the same day, Nokia won two injunctions in Munich and (by extension) fended off the part of an injunction request that related to its products.
Context: When telecommunications carriers are sued over patents, the actual targets are almost always their infrastructure equipment vendors. In the case at hand, which was filed in the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court), Deutsche Telekom’s Supervectoring network is the accused instrumentality, but the companies with (potential) contractual indemnification obligations are Adtran, Nokia, and Huawei, all of whom use Broadcom chips. Deutsche Telekom invited its suppliers, who promptly intervened, as did Broadcom.
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Court and counsel
Panel: Presiding Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen (“Schön”), Judge Katalin Tözsér, and Judge Dr. Florian Schweyer.
Counsel for the partly successful plaintiff: Wildanger Kehrwald Graf v. Schwerin & Partner’s (ip fray firm profile) Eva Geschke and Jasper Meyer zu Riemsloh, together with Fish & Richardson patent attorneys Dr. Klaus Reindl and Bernhard Lorenz, Ph.D.
Counsel for defendant Deutsche Telekom: Bardehle Pagenberg’s (ip fray firm profile) Dr. Tobias Wuttke, who has represented this client for many years, even long before he joined his current firm. It is also worth noting that Deutsche Telekom’s head of IP, Alexander Haertel, is himself a former patent litigator of Preu Bohlig and Bardehle Pagenberg fame.
Counsel for successful intervenor Huawei: Bird & Bird’s Christian Harmsen and Dr. Bastian Selck. Huawei’s chief litigation counsel for the EMEA region, Dr. Thomas Dreiser, is another Bardehle Pagenberg alumnus.
Counsel for successful intervenor Nokia: Bird & Bird’s Boris Kreye and Dr. Lars Hessmann, together with patent attorneys from Samson & Partner. Nokia’s vice president of litigation, Dr. Clemens Heusch, was a patent litigator at Bird & Bird before going in-house.
Counsel for successful intervenor Broadcom: CBH’s Hannes Jacobsen.
Counsel for intervenor Adtran: Hogan Lovells’s (ip fray firm profile) Dr. Andreas von Falck and Dr. Felix Banholzer.