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Jul 30, 2026
In this first-instance judgment, the Local Chamber Hamburg deals in detail with the claim for lost profits and the temporal scope of application of the Unified Patent Court Agreement. National law applies to a claim for…
Read more →Jun 18, 2026
A request for an order to lay open books under R 1311.1 (c) and R 141 to 144 RoP constitutes part of the procedure for the determination of the amount of damages and compensation, which is governed by Chapter 4 of Part…
Read more →An order for recall, final removal from the channels of commerce and destruction is generally not considered for products that are only attacked by way of indirect patent infringement, as these are not "the…
Read more →According to Art 68(1) UPCA, the Court shall, on the request of the infringed party, order the infringer who knowingly, or with reasonable grounds to know, engaged in an infringing activity, to pay the injured party…
Read more →With regard to the right to information, the questions of temporal applicability and the period for which information is to be provided are to be distinguished from each other. The rights to information enshrined in the…
Read more →Financial compensation for the use of the published EP application also falls within the jurisdiction of the UPC (Article 32(1)(f) UPCA). Since such compensation is not regulated in either the EPatVO or the UPCA, the…
Read more →Feb 11, 2019
A hotel in a skiing area known for its bar featuring scantily-clad dancing girls was found to have an infringing trade mark. The lower courts issued an injunction in a first partial judgment. A further partial judgment…
Read more →Recently two decisions were handed down regarding payments for infringement of IP rights, one in a copyright case concerning use of a databank (4 Ob 133/13g), and one in a trade mark case concerning the mark GRANT's for…
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