UPC APP 12101/2024

—·EP1875683: INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND IC DESIGN METHOD

Case details: Status
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Action
Procedural application
Category
Other Procedural
Parties: Claimants
Network System Technologies LLC
Reps: Thomas Gniadek (Simmons & Simmons)
Respondents
Volkswagen AG
AUDI AG
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH
Reps: Jan Patrick Bösing; Klaus Haft (Hoyng Rokh Monegier)
Division: Munich LD
Judges: Matthias Zigann · Presiding judge
Tobias Pichlmaier · Judge-rapporteur
Pierluigi Perrotti · Legally qualified judge
Technology: Computing & AI
Language: —
First decided: May 8, 2024

Decisions

2024-05-08
JurisdictionalGeneric application
Munich Local Division order (full panel) on preliminary objections and R. 361 RoP requests by Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Texas Instruments Inc., and TI Deutschland GmbH in infringement proceedings by Network System Technologies LLC concerning EP 1 875 683. The R. 361 requests to declare the action manifestly inadmissible or unfounded were dismissed. The preliminary objections were partially dismissed with the remaining jurisdictional issue on patent assignment and pre-assignment infringement deferred to main proceedings. Leave to appeal granted. Costs deferred.
Legal issues:Preliminary objection on jurisdiction (R. 19 RoP)Request to declare action manifestly bound to fail (R. 361 RoP)Patent assignment and standing to sue for pre-assignment infringementIntegrated circuit / data communication network technology

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