Overview · Filed: —
ACT_953/2024
Tissue design for protective clothing
InfringementMain Infringement ActionNordic-Baltic RDInfringement Action—
Parties
Claimants
- TEXPORT Handelsgesellschaft mbH
Reps: Thomas Adocker (Taylor Wessing); Laura Coucke (Taylor Wessing); Michael Babeluk (Babeluk Patentanwälte); Martin Babeluk (Babeluk Patentanwälte)
Respondents
- Sioen NV
Reps: Véronique Pede (CAPE IP Law); Antonin Lambrecht (CAPE IP Law); Michaël Moreels (Gevers)
Judges
- Stefan JohanssonPresiding judge and judge-rapporteur
- Kai HärmandLegally qualified judge
- Alima ZanaLegally qualified judge
Patents
- EP 2 186 428
CPC codes: B32B5/26, B32B27/02, A62B17/003, A41D31/085, B32B5/24, A41D31/102, B32B27/34
Technology area: Consumer Goods · Protective Clothing
Outcome
InfringedInfringed
Filed: —
First decided: Oct 29, 2024
Last decision: Jul 31, 2025
Language: —
Decision by Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (UPC_CFI_9/2024, 31 July 2025) finding Sioen NV liable for infringement of EP 2 186 428 B2 (protective workwear / clothing) across 16 UPC member states. An injunction was granted, product recall and destruction ordered, information on sales required, damages declared owing, and EUR 50,000 awarded as interim legal costs. All other requests were dismissed.
Claims
At issueall
Infringedall
Notes: Nordic-Baltic Regional Division found Sioen NV infringed EP2186428 B2 across 16 UPC member states; injunction, recall, destruction and EUR 50,000 interim costs ordered; specific claim numbers not enumerated in operative parts visible in excerpts.