50 most influential people in IP 2022: MIP recognises Clemens Heusch at Nokia
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50 most influential people in IP 2022: MIP recognises Clemens Heusch at Nokia

Clemens Heusch is global head of dispute resolution at Nokia in Germany

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Clemens Heusch, global head of dispute resolution, Nokia, Germany

This next entrant may be a familiar face. But we can’t ignore the fact that Nokia has been in the news again for its standard essential patent litigation.

At the heart of that is Clemens Heusch, Nokia’s global head of dispute resolution.

Nokia secured two big wins in August when Chinese smart phone maker Oppo and its subsidiary OnePlus were ordered to withdraw their devices from the German market.

The Munich Regional Court sided with Nokia and granted it an injunction, prompting Oppo to pull its phones and smart watches from its German online store.

Oppo infringed two Nokia SEPs and didn’t act as a willing licensee during negotiations for fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty terms, the court ruled.

Nokia’s Munich win, masterminded by Heusch, marked a hattrick for the Finnish telecoms company. It had two other successful actions against the same opponent at the Mannheim Regional Court in June and July.

Nokia and Oppo have outstanding litigation in Düsseldorf over the Chinese smartphone maker’s alleged infringement of two other feature patents.

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19 Industry leaders
10 Public officials
9 IP authorities
7 Judges
5 Notable individuals
 
Kasim Alfalahi is CEO at Avanci in the US
Shannon Thyme Klinger is chief legal officer at Moderna in the US
Jim Sullivan is a director at Shazam Productions in the UK
Stephen Wurth and John Scott are legal counsel at Qualcomm in the US
Robert Devonshire is a partner at MML Capital in the UK
Beat Weibel is chief IP counsel at Siemens in Germany
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen are founders at Andreessen Horowitz in the US
René Claude Metomo is the president of the Association of Penja Pepper Producers in Cameroon
Mattia Fogliacco is president of Sisvel International in Luxembourg
Nader Pazirandeh is president at Unicolors in the US
Juliette Rouilloux-Sicre is vice president of legal and intellectual property at Thales in France
Scott Frank is CEO of IP at AT&T in the US
Craig Wright is a computer scientist in Australia
Audrey Lee is general counsel at Starz Entertainment in the US
Joyce Ang is senior vice president for IPR protection at Lazada in Singapore
Jack Randles is head of legal at Manolo Blahnik in the UK
Niall Trainor is senior director of brand protection at eOne in the UK
Daniel Zohny is head of IP at FIFA in Switzerland
 
The investigation lead at the Spanish National Police asked to remain anonymous
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the director general of the World Trade Organization in Switzerland
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the former secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy in the UK
Kerstin Jorna is director general of DG Grow at the European Commission in Belgium
Patrick Leahy is a senator for Vermont at the US Congress
Thom Tillis is a senator for North Carolina at the US Congress
Edwin Tong is the second minister for law in the Singapore government
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the former president of the United Arab Emirates
Vladimir Putin is president of Russia
 
Alexander Ramsay is former chair of the UPC Administrative Committee in Sweden
Insil Lee is the commissioner at KIPO in South Korea
Christian Archambeau is executive director at the EUIPO in Spain
António Campinos is president of the EPO in Germany
Kathi Vidal is the director of the USPTO and under secretary of commerce for IP in the US government
Konstantinos Georgaras is CEO of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Tim Moss is former CEO of the UKIPO
Shen Changyu is the commissioner of the CNIPA in China
Shira Perlmutter is register of copyrights at the US Copyright Office
 
Wang Jiangqiao is a judge at the Hangzhou Internet Court in China
Orlando Garcia is the chief judge at the District Court for the Western District of Texas in the US
Colm Connolly is the chief judge at the District Court for the District of Delaware in the US
Len Stark is a judge at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the US
Klaus Grabinski is president of the UPC Court of Appeal in Germany
Prathiba Singh is a judge at the Delhi High Court in India
Suzanne Barnett was the interim chief judge at the Copyright Royalty Board in the US
 
Amber Kotrri is the founder of House of Zana in the UK
Ed Sheeran is a pop star in the UK
Lynn Goldsmith is a celebrity photographer in the US
Ankit Sahni is the owner of the RAGHAV Artificial Intelligence Painting App in India
Taras Kulbaba is a partner at Bukovnik & Kulbaba IP Guardians in Belgium
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