2026-10-13 - LD Düsseldorf - fiskaly v. Swissbit et al. - UPC-CFI-0001332/2026
- Aktenzeichen:
- UPC-CFI-0001332/2026
- Datum:
- Spruchkörper:
- Court of First Instance - Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division
- Art:
- Order
- Parteien:
- fiskaly GmbH v. Swissbit AG, Swissbit Germany AG
Kernaussage: Deciding on release of a court expert's detailed description after a software saisie, the Düsseldorf Local Division judge-rapporteur applied the division's three-step test: whether the material is a trade secret or other confidential information under Art.
2026-10-13 - LD Düsseldorf - fiskaly
v.
Swissbit et al. - UPC-CFI-0001332/2026
notable
Deciding on release of a court expert's detailed description after a software saisie, the Düsseldorf Local Division judge-rapporteur applied the division's three-step test: whether the material is a trade secret or other confidential information under Art. 58 UPCA; if so, redaction where it is irrelevant to infringement; and for relevant material, a case-by-case choice between disclosure to the party under a confidentiality obligation and a restricted circle of persons. For material the expert did not explicitly rely on, the applicant must show its relevance, but information needed to understand the expert's reasoning as a whole counts as relevant and may be redacted only if clearly separable from the context. The defendants' bare assertion of irrelevance did not suffice, so all disputed source-code passages were released. Because source code was the foundation of the defendants' business and the parties are competitors, access was limited to a confidentiality club, which had to include the applicant's technical employees, since a complex software case cannot be argued without them.
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