UPC_APP_21951/2025

FOAM RESIN STRUCTURAL PART FOR A FRAME OF A VEHICLE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR

Procedural & sub-applicationsCase Management OrdersCourt of AppealApplication Rop 223—

Overview Decisions Citations Documents Timeline

Parties

Claimants

Yellow Sphere Innovations GmbH
Erwin Härtwich

Reps: Dirk Jestaed (Krieger Mes & Graf von der Groeben Partnerschaft mbB)

Respondents

Knaus Tabbert AG

Reps: Rüdiger Pansch (Rospatt Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB)

Judges

Rian KaldenPresiding judge, legally qualified judge
Ingeborg SimonssonLegally qualified judge
Patricia RombachLegally qualified judge, judge-rapporteur
Marc van der BurgTechnically qualified judge
Erwin WismethTechnically qualified judge

Patents

EP 3 356 109
EP3356109

CPC codes: B29L2031/3002, B29K2995/0015, B29K2995/0081, B29K2075/00, B29K2063/00, B29K2033/04, B29K2995/0063, B29C33/0055, B29C44/1214

Outcome

Injunction denied

Filed: —

First decided: May 21, 2025

Language: —

The Court of Appeal denied Knaus Tabbert AG's application for suspensive effect of the Dusseldorf Local Division's order of 10 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_50/2024) granting Yellow Sphere and Härtwich an infringement injunction concerning EP 3 356 109 (vehicle frame). The Court found no manifest error in the first-instance decision and no risk of the appeal being rendered devoid of purpose by enforcement. Key headnote: security for enforcement is a discretionary power of the CFI; arguments about the claimant's financial situation cannot be raised for the first time before the Court of Appeal if they could have been raised at first instance.