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APL 31428/2024
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- Case details
- Status—ActionAppealCategoryMain Appeal
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Stefan Golkowsky (Patentanwälte Pfennig, Meinig und Partner mbB); Yori Manzke (Patentanwälte Pfennig, Meinig und Partner mbB); Maxi Rafaela Thrum (Patentanwälte Pfennig, Meinig und Partner mbB); Johannes Bukow (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP); Anna-Katharina Hübler (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP)Respondents—
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- Court of Appeal
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- First decided
- Mar 26, 2025
Decisions
- 2025-03-26Costs onlyAppeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
The Court of Appeal issued an order on costs distribution after a patent revocation action became moot because the patent holder surrendered the patent; the Court established that an exception to the loser-pays rule applies where the patent owner surrendered immediately at the outset of proceedings without prior provocation.
Legal issues:Costs distribution after patent surrender (R. 360 RoP)Exception to loser-pays rule (Art. 69(1) UPCA)Patent surrender (Art. 105a EPC)
Documents
- 29CAEB74227BAE3225932329D70FA838_de.pdf2025-03-26DE