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APL 51115/2024
—·EP2152073: HERBICIDE COMPOSITIONS
- Case details
- Status—ActionAppealCategoryMain Appeal
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Jörn Peters (Fieldfisher); Benjamin Grzimek (Fieldfisher); Aylin Cremers (Fieldfisher); Aloys Hüttermann (Michalski, Hüttermann & Partner); Filip de Corte (Syngenta Crop Protection AG); Christopher Andrews (Syngenta Crop Protection AG)RespondentsReps: Gareth Williams (Marks & Clerk LLP); Johannes Heselberger (Bardehle Pagenberg); Axel B. Berger (Bardehle Pagenberg); Kerstin Galler (Bardehle Pagenberg); Markus Ackermann (Bardehle Pagenberg)
- Division
- Court of Appeal
- Judges
- Rian Kalden · Presiding Judge
- Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally Qualified Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
- Patricia Rombach · Legally Qualified Judge
- Arwed Burrichter · Technically Qualified Judge
- Anna Hedberg · Technically Qualified Judge
- Technology
- Agriculture
- Language
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- First decided
- Mar 4, 2025
Decisions
- 2025-03-04PI grantedAppeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
Order by the Court of Appeal (UPC_CoA_523/2024, 3 March 2025) dismissing Sumi Agro's appeal and upholding the preliminary injunction granted by the first instance in favour of Syngenta for EP 2 152 073 (crop protection). The CoA found the patent more likely than not valid and infringed, extended the injunction to Romania following its UPCA accession, reversed the first-instance costs decision and ordered Sumi Agro to bear all costs at first instance and on appeal. The CoA also held that a cost decision must be issued in inter partes PI proceedings.
Legal issues:Preliminary injunction (Art. 62 UPCA)Validity and infringement assessment in PI proceedingsNecessity and urgencyTerritorial scope / Romania accession (Art. 34 UPCA)Security for enforcementCosts in inter partes PI proceedingsPrice erosion as irreparable harm
Documents
- 90FB181F465315904398D67F27A776F7_en.pdf2025-03-04EN