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UPC CFI 769/2025
—·EP2061230: Portable terminal, information processing apparatus and content display system
- Case details
- Status—ActionCounterclaim for revocationCategoryCounter Claim for Revocation
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Benjamin Beck (Mayer Brown LLP); Alexander Balan (Mayer Brown LLP); Christoph Crützen (Mayer Brown LLP); Svenja Schenk (Mayer Brown LLP); Thomas Hell (Bosch Jehle Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH)Respondents
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Samsung Electronics GmbH
- Samsung Electronics France S.A.S.
- Samsung Electronics Benelux B.V.
Reps: Christian Lederer (PENTARC) - Division
- The Hague LD
- Judges
- Edger Brinkman · presiding
- Stefan Johansson · legally qualified
- Dennis Kretschmann · technically qualified
- Margot Kokke · rapporteur
- Technology
- Computing & AI
- Language
- —
- First decided
- Aug 10, 2026
Claims
Notes: Patent EP 2 061 230 revoked in its entirety (all claims, main request and auxiliary requests) for France, Germany and the Netherlands for lack of inventive step; specific claim numbers are not stated in the excerpted text. The related infringement action (UPC_CFI_251/2025) was also dismissed in full.
Decisions
- 2026-08-10RevokedRevocation meritsCounter claim for revocation
The Court dismissed Maxell's infringement claims against the Samsung defendants relating to EP 2 061 230 and, on Samsung's counterclaim, revoked the patent in its entirety for France, Germany and the Netherlands for lack of inventive step (obviousness). Maxell was ordered to pay Samsung EUR 200,000 in costs for the infringement action and a further EUR 200,000 in costs for the counterclaim, both immediately enforceable.
Legal issues:Inventive step / obviousnessMere aggregation of features absent a synergistic effectObviousness of progressively narrower auxiliary requestsPatent infringement
Documents
- e26fe312-0a21-4f69-b411-45b26f62e5ca.pdf2026-08-10EN