IPCOM ./. Apple (2 The 53/12 and 2 The 95/13)

On 11. February 2014 was before the District Court of Mannheim before 2. Negotiated civil division of the district court in two patent infringement actions for damages. The complaints are from the company IPCOM GmbH& Co KG (a patent licensing company based near Munich) been raised and addressed in both cases against the American parent company of Apple, the responsible for sales in Europe subsidiary of Apple, based in Ireland, and of the person responsible for the retail distribution subsidiary of Apple in Germany based in Frankfurt.

In both methods it comes to patents, which deal with the question, as the access from mobile phones can be controlled in congested wireless channels.

The procedure 2 The 53/12, in the u.a. Part of an action for damages in the amount of approximately EUR 1,57 Billion has been collected, plus interest, concerns the European patent EP 1 841 268. This patent was just the subject of a first instance decision of the European Patent Office dated 22.01.2014.

Subject of the proceedings 2 The 95/13, where as yet no numbered order sought, but applications have been made to accounting and determination of damages, is the German patent DE 199 10 239.

In the process IPCOM subject.