Vringo’s patent infringement lawsuit in Germany against ZTE...
Vringo’s patent infringement lawsuit in Germany against ZTE moved forward last month when the German court told Vringo’s counsel that it had begun serving legal paperwork on ZTE, the video ringtone and intellectual property company said Tuesday. The suit against…
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ZTE and its German arm, ZTE Deutschland, claims the Chinese telecom equipment provider infringed on the German part of European Patent 1,212,919. Vringo said it filed the lawsuit Nov. 15 in the Mannheim district court. Once ZTE was served, the company had two weeks to announce whether it would defend itself against Vringo’s claims, and an additional six weeks to file its response to the complaint. Vringo CEO Andrew Perlman said the company is “confident in the foundational nature of our Telecom Infrastructure patent portfolio and intend[s] to pursue additional enforcement actions when infringing companies choose not to take a license” (http://xrl.us/bn4tdi). Vringo is also suing ZTE in the U.K., where it’s alleging patent violations of the English part of European Patent 1,212,919 and two other patents (CD Oct 24 p12).