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APL 32012/2024
—·EP2043492: A HAND-HELD CLEANING APPLIANCE
- Case details
- Status—ActionAppealCategoryMain Appeal
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Constanze Krenz (DLA Piper); David Kleß (DLA Piper); Joschua Fiedler (DLA Piper)RespondentsReps: Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck Und Pyrmont (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer); Christopher Stothers (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer); Kilian Seidel (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer); Caroline Horstmann (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)
- Division
- Court of Appeal
- Judges
- Rian Kalden · Presiding Judge
- Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally Qualified Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
- Patricia Rombach · Legally Qualified Judge
- Graham Ashley · Technically Qualified Judge
- Max Tilmann · Technically Qualified Judge
- Technology
- Furniture & Household
- Language
- —
- First decided
- Dec 3, 2024
Decisions
- 2024-12-03PI deniedAppeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
Court of Appeal lifted the preliminary injunction granted by Munich Local Division against SharkNinja for alleged infringement of Dyson's EP 2 043 492 (hand-held vacuum cleaner). The Court found on the balance of probabilities it was not more likely than not that the patent was infringed, noting that the principal mode of separation in the SharkNinja product is a filter, not cyclonic separation as claimed. Dyson ordered to bear SharkNinja's costs for both instances.
Legal issues:Provisional measures - balance of probabilities of infringementCyclonic separation vs. filter separationClaim interpretation (hand-held vacuum cleaner)
Documents
- SharkNinja%20v%20Dyson%20order%203%20December%202024%20EN%20anonym.pdf2024-12-03GERMAN