UPC_CFI_195/2024

BROWN MUSHROOMS FOR COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION

Einstweilige MaßnahmenEinstweilige MaßnahmenThe Hague LDProvisional measuresCase Closed

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Zusammenfassung in einfacher Sprache

Amycel LLC obtained a preliminary injunction from The Hague Local Division against a defendant (GDPR-redacted) prohibiting direct infringement of EP 1 993 350 B2, a patent covering a hybrid Agaricus bisporus (brown mushroom) strain, across the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Italy. The court held the mushroom strain was not excluded from patentability under Art. 53(b) EPC and found a prima facie case of infringement by the defendant's Cayene mushroom strain. The defendant was ordered to deliver up infringing strains, disclose customer information, pay EUR 11,000 in interim costs, and provide EUR 200,000 security to Amycel.

Angenommene Argumente

Was das Gericht akzeptiert hat — nach Partei.

Mushroom strain (Agaricus bisporus hybrid BR06/Cayene) is not excluded from patentability under Art. 53(b) EPC
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 53(b) EPC
Hinweis: The court found a prima facie case that the mushroom strain patent does not fall within the biological-exclusion exception, supporting patentability.
Prima facie case of direct infringement of EP 1 993 350 B2 by the Cayene mushroom strain
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 25(a) UPCA; Art. 63(1) UPCA
Hinweis: The court accepted Amycel's showing that defendant's commercialisation of Cayene in NL, DE, FR, IT fell within the patent claims.
Security of EUR 200,000 required as condition for enforcing provisional measures
BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: R. 211.5 RoP
Hinweis: Defendant's request for security was granted because Amycel did not object, and the court used it to set the case value.

Zurückgewiesene Argumente

Was das Gericht nicht akzeptiert hat — und warum.

Requested case value of EUR 500,000 for determining recoverable-costs ceiling
KlägerRechtsgrundlage: R. 211.5 RoP
Begründung: Court found the EUR 500,000 figure insufficiently substantiated and instead used the EUR 200,000 security amount as a proxy for case value.

Zentrale Rechtsgrundsätze

In der Begründung herangezogene Doktrinen und Regeln.

Mushroom strain patent not excluded from patentability under Art. 53(b) EPC Provisional measures require prima facie infringement Security may be ordered as condition for enforcement (R. 211.5 RoP)Case value may be inferred from the security amount requested by the defendant Interim award of costs limited to court fees where merits proceedings are to follow

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