Overview · Filed: —
APL_51115/2024
HERBICIDE COMPOSITIONS
AppealsMain AppealCourt of AppealAppeal RoP220.1—
Parties
Claimants
- Syngenta Limited
Reps: 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)
Respondents
- Sumi Agro Limited
- Sumi Agro Europe Limited
Reps: Gareth Williams (Marks & Clerk LLP); Johannes Heselberger (Bardehle Pagenberg); Axel B. Berger (Bardehle Pagenberg); Kerstin Galler (Bardehle Pagenberg); Markus Ackermann (Bardehle Pagenberg)
Judges
- Rian KaldenPresiding Judge
- Ingeborg SimonssonLegally Qualified Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
- Patricia RombachLegally Qualified Judge
- Arwed BurrichterTechnically Qualified Judge
- Anna HedbergTechnically Qualified Judge
Patents
- EP 2 152 073
CPC codes: A01N25/22, A01N41/10, A01N37/02, A01N37/06, A01N47/36
Sector: Agriculture
Outcome
PI granted
Filed: —
First decided: Mar 4, 2025
Language: —
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.