Marcus Grosch, who recently got mixed press, one of the reasons for which is that QE is the only patent litigation firm in Germany never to bring patent attorneys along to hearings and trials. Niantic is being represented by Quinn Emanuel's Dr. I guess we'll hear about their work more often in the future. It was easy to follow his clearly articulated arguments. Alexander Reetz, who handled matters in a calm but strategic and persuasive way. This is another significant win for the Wildanger firm. The Samsung case will go to trial in less than a year. That patent, too, was originally obtained by TNO. While it's unclear how protracted this litigation will become or whether it may even extend to other jurisdictions where members of this patent family have been registered (and which would take note of the Munich court's findings), K.Mizra is also asserting a patent against Samsung in Dusseldorf, targeting what is clearly an Android operating system functionality. Niantic has the right to appeal the decision to the Munich Higher Regional Court, but K.Mizra's infringement argument is rather strong (based on what was discussed at the trial), and the prior art cited by Niantic doesn't really seem to come close to the patented invention. Zigann strongly encouraged Niantic-a Google/Nintendo joint venture, with Google's technology being particularly at issue in this case-to negotiate a settlement. At the end of the July 14 trial, Judge Dr.
Here's a screenshot of a key passage (click on the image to enlarge): The court's press office has thankfully provided me with an anonymized version of the dispositive part of the ruling (the order in a narrow sense). For the Pokémon GO community I hope this can be avoided, but as Juve Patent explained yesterday, "nothing has changed" about Germany's automatic injunction rule in patent infringement cases. Thus far, US-based licensing firm K.Mizra hasn't sought an injunction-only a finding that is entitled to a damages award-but it could do so anytime.
The defendants are Niantic entities in the U.S., UK, and Germany.
Niantic: the wildly popular Pokémon GO mobile game infringes EP2433414, a patent on "servers for device identification services" that resulted from the research efforts of a reputable and sizeable Dutch organization named TNO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoe Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research). Matthias Zigann) announced its decision in K.Mizra v. A few hours ago, the Munich I Regional Court's Seventh Civil Chamber (Presiding Judge: Dr.
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