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UPC APP 25317/2025
—·EP2643717: COLOR-MIXING CONVERGENT OPTICAL SYSTEM
- Case details
- Status—ActionProcedural applicationCategoryOther Procedural
- Parties
- RespondentsReps: Rainer Beetz (SONN Patentanwälte); Katharina Pehle (Bird & Bird LLP)
- Division
- Court of Appeal
- Judges
- Rian Kalden · Presiding Judge
- Patricia Rombach · Legally Qualified Judge / Judge-Rapporteur
- Ingeborg Simonsson · Legally Qualified Judge
- Anders Hansson · Technically Qualified Judge
- Klaus Loibner · Technically Qualified Judge
- Technology
- Display & Signage
- Language
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- First decided
- Aug 1, 2025
Decisions
- 2025-08-01Generic application
Court of Appeal (Second Panel) ruled on Strabag's and Chainzone's applications for confidentiality orders under R. 262A RoP in their appeal of the Swarco v. Strabag infringement decision from Vienna Local Division. The Court partly granted and partly rejected the applications, confirming that product characteristics not readily accessible to third parties constitute trade secrets, but rejected applications for information already submitted at first instance without a timely R. 262A request.
Legal issues:Confidentiality orders (R. 262A RoP)Trade secrets (Art. 58 UPCA)Late applications for confidentiality on appealR. 262.2 RoP vs R. 262A RoP
Documents
- Strabag%2C%20Chainzone%20v%20Swarco%20Anordnung%20GeheimhaltungEN_final.pdf2025-08-01GERMAN