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APL 38948/2024
—·EP2263098: POSITIONING OF MOBILE OBJECTS BASED ON MUTUALLY TRANSMITTED SIGNALS
- Case details
- Status—ActionAppealCategoryMain Appeal
- Parties
- Claimants
- Apple Retail Germany B.V. & Co. KG
- Apple Distribution International Ltd.
- Apple GmbH
- Apple Retail France EURL
- Apple Inc.
Reps: Tilman Müller-Stoy (Bardehle Pagenberg); Tobias Wuttke (Bardehle Pagenberg); Saskia Mertsching (Bardehle Pagenberg); Ronja Schregle (Bardehle Pagenberg)RespondentsReps: Christof Augenstein (Kather Augenstein); Melissa Lutz (Kather Augenstein); Nicole Schopp (Kather Augenstein) - Division
- Court of Appeal
- Judges
- Rian Kalden · Presiding judge and judge-rapporteur
- Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally qualified judge
- Patricia Rombach · Legally qualified judge
- Technology
- Measurement & Testing
- Language
- —
- First decided
- Sep 18, 2024
Decisions
- 2024-09-18Appeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
Court of Appeal order on Apple's appeal against refusal to change the language of proceedings from German to English in infringement proceedings brought by Ona Patents against Apple before the Düsseldorf Local Division. The Court of Appeal clarified that internal working language of parties and their ability to coordinate on technical issues are relevant factors when deciding a language change request on grounds of fairness (Art. 49(5) UPCA). Parallel national court proceedings between the parties are of less relevance to this analysis.
Legal issues:Change of language of proceedings (Art. 49(5) UPCA)Fairness in language change requestInternal working language of partiesRelevance of parallel national proceedings
Documents
- D0C58A32692873087A0BC7C1C125A237_en.pdf2024-09-18ENGLISH