Broadcom and Grünecker initiate litigation against Deutsche Telekom at the UPC

It has been a long time since Germany’s largest telecommunications provider, Deutsche Telekom, hit the headlines due to patent disputes. After less favourable experiences in the 2010s against IPCom and other NPEs, the German company changed its litigation strategy and reorganised its in-house department. Since 2022, former Bardehle Pagenberg partner Alexander Haertel has been responsible for Deutsche Telekom’s fortunes in patent litigation in his role as cluster lead patents.

In 2015, NPE Intellectual Ventures launched a large series of lawsuits against Deutsche Telekom and two other major telecommunications providers. However, this series ended in 2024 without any significant success for the NPE. The German company has otherwise rarely been involved in patent litigation in recent years.

Now Deutsche Telekom is facing three patent infringement claims at the UPC. The claims come from CA Technologies, VMware and Avago. All companies belong to Broadcom.

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