UPC CFI 490/2025
—·EP2465265: METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INTRA CHROMA ENCODING AND DECODING
- Case details
- Status—ActionCounterclaim for revocationCategoryCounter Claim for Revocation
- Parties
- Respondents
- The Walt Disney Company
- The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) B.V.
- Disney Interactive
- Disney Electronic Content, Inc.
- Disney Platform Distribution, Inc.
- The Walt Disney Company Limited
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Disney Streaming Services LLC
- Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution LLC
- Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC
- BAMTech LLC
Reps: Dietrich Burkhard Kamlah - Division
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- Judges
- Peter Tochtermann · presiding
- Tobias Sender · rapporteur
- Daniel Severinsson · legally qualified
- Dennis Kretschmann · technically qualified
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Language
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- First decided
- Jun 16, 2026
- 2026-06-16InfringedInjunction grantedRevocation meritsCounterclaim for revocation
The Mannheim Local Division found that the Disney defendants infringed EP 2 465 265 by offering and placing on the market encoded picture data and signals comprising video data in eleven Contracting Member States. The defendants' counterclaim for revocation was dismissed, and the defendants were ordered to bear the litigation costs. Injunctive relief and damages liability were granted, subject to Claimant providing 8 million euro security before enforcement of injunctive orders.
Legal issues:Patent infringement of video encoding patent (EP 2 465 265)Counterclaim for revocationScope of injunctive relief across multiple Contracting Member StatesSecurity requirement for enforcement of injunctive orders (8 million euro)Joint and several liability of defendant groupRecall and removal from marketDisclosure of sales/revenue information for damages calculationPenalty payments for violation of court ordersDamages: Liability declared, amount deferred
- 86-25%20redacted.pdf2026-06-16EN
The defendants infringed EP 2 465 265 by offering and placing on the market encoded picture data directly produced by a method in a video encoder and signals comprising video data in the specified Contracting Member States
ClaimantLegal basis: EP 2 465 265; Art. 25 UPCA
Counterclaim for revocation of EP 2 465 265
RespondentLegal basis: Art. 65 UPCA