2026-05-04 - LD Düsseldorf - Otec Pr Zisionsfinish v. Steros Gpa Innovative - UPC-CFI-0000885/2025

Was ist diese UPC-Entscheidung?

Zusammenfassung: The Düsseldorf Local Division cancelled its earlier ex parte inspection and evidence-preservation order against STEROS GPA, executed at the EMO Hannover trade fair in September 2025, because the applicant OTEC failed to file main infringement proceedings within the 31-calendar-day / 20-working-day window of Art. 60(8) UPCA and Rule 198.1 RoP (which Rule 199.2 RoP applies to inspection orders); the deadline ran from the release of the court expert's detailed description on 17 November 2025. As Folgenbeseitigung, the court ordered the return of all evidence, destruction of all copies of the trade-fair brochure and irretrievable deletion of the digital expert description. The respondent's compensation claim of 11,390 EUR under Art. 60(9) UPCA in conjunction with Rule 198.2 RoP was rejected: the asserted attorney and translation costs are not 'damages' (Schaden) within those provisions but procedural costs to be recovered through a separate cost-assessment procedure under Rule 151 ff. RoP — for which the panel issued the necessary cost-basis decision (Kostengrundentscheidung) by analogous application of Rule 118.6 RoP, imposing the costs of the evidence-preservation procedure on the applicant.

Quelle und Fundstellen

Quelle: UPC Website

Aktenzeichen: UPC-CFI-0000885/2025