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IPCom's $2 Billion Patent Lawsuit Against Apple Dismissed by German Court

German patent licensing company IPCom was handed a setback today when both of its patent infringement lawsuits against Apple were dismissed in a German court, reports FOSS Patents (http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/02/ipcoms-22-billion-lawsuit-against-apple.html). The decisions were handed down by two different chambers within the Mannheim Regional Court.

Two lawsuits against Apple, including one involving a €1.57 billion ($2.2 billion) "partial" damages claim, and one against HTC (a company IPCom has been suing for about six years) were dismissed because the court concluded that Apple and HTC didn't infringe a certain IPCom patent family by implementing the 3G/UMTS standard.

The patents cited in the dismissed lawsuits include European patent EP1841268 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument;jsessionid=C51F6CB00DB2334D2E14A18C7D6C31FE.espacenet_levelx_prod_0?FT=D&date=20100317&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=EP&NR=1841268B1&KC=B1&ND=4) and German patent DE19910239 (http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=0&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20000921&CC=DE&NR=19910239A1&KC=A1), which describe methods of managing priority emergency access when wireless networks are overloaded. Apple, Nokia, HTC and others asked the European Patent Office to invalidate the European patent, but the EPO denied this request.
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 IPCom is expected to appeal these decisions, while Apple and other mobile manufacturers likely will continue to challenge the validity of this patent. Outside of Germany, Apple is petitioning both the <a href="U.S. Supreme Court (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/05/apple-supreme-court-patent-abuse/) and the <a href="EU (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/25/eu-patent-infringement-apple/) to limit the power of patent holding companies like IPCom in future infringement cases.
 
 
 
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Source: IPCom's $2 Billion Patent Lawsuit Against Apple Dismissed by German Court (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/28/ipcom-apple-patent-lawsuit-2-billion/)