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Court and counsel
CoA, panel 1a: President Dr. Klaus Grabinski, Judge Prof. Peter Blok (judge-rapporteur with respect to Apple’s intervention in Ericsson v. ASUSTeK) and Judge Emmanuel Gougé (judge-rapporteur with respect to Apple’s intervention in Sun Patent Trust v. vivo).
Counsel for intervenor Apple: It appears that Apple is, for the first time ever (at least in the UPC), being represented by Simmons & Simmons. More than ten years ago, Simmons & Simmons was actually adverse to Apple (representing Samsung against it in the UK and the Netherlands), but that is water under the bridge. Simmons & Simmons’s Abdelaziz Khatab (based in Paris) is counsel of record in the Ericsson case originating from the Paris LD, and Oscar Lamme (based in the Netherlands) in the Sun Patent Trust case originating from the Milan LD.
Counsel for Ericsson: Taylor Wessing (counsel of record: Dr. Wim Maas) and Jacobacci Avvocati (no individual practitioner mentioned in the decision).
Counsel for ASUSTeK: Powell Gilbert (counsel of record: Alex Wilson) and Nunziante Magrone (no individual practitioner mentioned in the decision); more recently, and too recently to be mentioned in the decision, Wildanger‘s Eva Geschke and Dr. Alexander Wiese.
Counsel for Sun Patent Trust: Hoyng Rokh Monegier‘s Sabine Agé in one case, Caroline Levesque in another.
Counsel for vivo: Vossius‘s (Vossius & Brinkhof UPC Litigators’) Dr. Georg Andreas Rauh.