At a 3G patent damages trial held in Mannheim on Friday afternoon, counsel for HTC told the most popular court in the world for wireless patent disputes that some of the Taiwanese device maker’s shipments into Germany were held during the previous week (week of 2/4/13-2/10/13) by customs officers at Frankfurt-Hahn airport after patent monetization entity IPCom had applied for border seizure of HTC’s 3G-compatible devices.