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UPC CoA 773/2024
Dec 10, 2024·EP3223320: LIGHT EMITTING DIODE
- Case details
- StatusCase ClosedActionAppealCategoryMain Appeal
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Bolko Ehlgen (Linklaters LLP); Dipl.-Phys. Olaf Isfort (Schneiders & Behrendt)RespondentsReps: Dirk Jestaedt (KRIEGER MES Partnerschaft mbB); Bernhard Ganahl (HGF Europe LLP)
- Division
- Court of Appeal
- Technology
- Semiconductor Devices
- Language
- German
- First decided
- Nov 5, 2025
Claims
At issue1, 4, 5, 6, 9
Revoked1, 4, 5, 6, 9
Notes: Same CoA decision as UPC_CoA_762/2024 (consolidated); claims 1, 4, 5, 6 and 9 of EP 3 223 320 revoked for added matter; infringement dismissed.
Decisions
- 2025-11-05RevokedAppeal decisionAppeal RoP220.1
Court of Appeal decision (English) on the appeal in the counterclaim for revocation and the related infringement action concerning Seoul Viosys's EP (LED patent, EP 698). The CoA found added matter in claim 1 of the patent (content extended beyond the earlier application as filed, particularly regarding embodiments with a single mesa). Claims 1, 4, 5, 6 and 9 revoked. Infringement action dismissed. Viosys ordered to pay expert's costs for both appeal and first instance proceedings. Key headnotes: court may raise added matter of its own motion; translation of international application governs content; patentee must demonstrate inaccuracy of its own translation.
Legal issues:Added matter (Art. 123(2) EPC)Translation of international applicationPatentee's burden to demonstrate inaccuracy of translationAdded matter raised ex officio by court
Documents
| Document title | Date | Public |
|---|---|---|
| action.phaseChange.caseClose | 2025-11-06 | Not public |
| action.issueDecision.decision | 2025-11-05 | Not public |
| Decision | 2025-11-05 | Public |
| action.communication.general | 2025-11-04 | Not public |
| action.phaseChange.oralPhaseClose | 2025-09-22 | Not public |
| action.phaseChange.oralPhaseOpen | 2025-09-22 | Not public |
| action.phaseChange.writtenPhaseClose | 2025-09-22 | Not public |
| Hearing Reference | 2025-07-10 | Not public |
| Hearing Reference | 2025-07-10 | Not public |
| Interim-Procedure-Closure | 2025-05-26 | Not public |
| Summon-Oral-Hearing | 2025-05-26 | Not public |
| close interim procedure | 2025-05-26 | Public |
| Interim-Conference-Decision | 2025-05-26 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-05-06 | Not public |
| Schriftsatz | 2025-05-06 | Not public |
| Panel-Appointment | 2025-02-20 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-02-11 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Berufungsbegruendung | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Anlage BK3- | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Anlage BK3 | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Anlage BK2 | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Anlage BK1 | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Anlage BK4 | 2025-02-10 | Not public |
| Panel-Appointment | 2025-01-22 | Not public |
| Panel-Appointment | 2024-12-31 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2024-12-31 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2024-12-31 | Not public |
| Formal-checks_Notification-of-positive-outcome | 2024-12-31 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Antrag nach RgR16.1(b) | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Berufungsschrift (korrigiert) | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Antrag gemäß Regel 16.1 (b) RgR | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Berufungsschrift | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Zahlungsnachweis Berufungsgebühr | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Zahlungsnachweis Berufungsgebühr | 2024-12-30 | Not public |
| Formal-checks_Request-for-correction | 2024-12-27 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2024-12-10 | Not public |
| Berufungsschrift | 2024-12-10 | Not public |
| Zahlungsnachweis Berufungsgebühr | 2024-12-10 | Not public |
| Zahlungsnachweis Berufungsgebühr | 2024-12-10 | Not public |