IPCom
The IPCom GmbH & Co. KG (not to be confused with the information service IP.com) is a German company based in Pullach , which became known through patent lawsuits worth billions against companies such as Apple and Nokia .
Financed by the Fortress Investment Group , IPCom acquired a portfolio of more than 1000 mobile phone patents from Robert Bosch GmbH in 2007 and then sued for the payment of license fees on this basis . IPCom reportedly asked Nokia € 12 billion . The Court of Appeal for England and Wales ruled: “ IPCom is a ' non practicing entity ', ie a patentee with no business of its own in products covered by the patents ”. In February 2014, the Mannheim District Court rejected two IPCom lawsuits against Apple and HTC Corporation .
In the summer of 2013, IPCom is said to have received several hundred million euros from Deutsche Telekom in a settlement .
A similar business model is practiced by the company Eolas , which won a settlement payment in 2007 after a patent dispute from Microsoft .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Bill Ray: High Court strikes down IPCom patents . The Register , January 19, 2010.
- ↑ Erik Larson, James Lumley: Nokia Wins UK Ruling Invalidating Two IPCom Patents . Bloomberg, January 20, 2011.
- ↑ Nokia GmbH v IPCOM GmbH & Co KG (2011) EWCA Civ 6 (20 January 2011)
- ↑ Billion lawsuit against Apple goes to the next instance . Süddeutsche Zeitung , dpa, February 28, 2014, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Reuters report (English) German version