On September 24, 2024, the German Federal Patent Court (docket no. 3 Ni 29/21 (EP)) invalidated the German part of VARTA Microbattery’s European patent EP 2 394 324 in its entirety. VARTA can appeal the decision. The written grounds of the judgment have not yet been served. This is already the second case decided between these parties in this year. The first case was also successfully handled by Grünecker for GN Audio, details thereon can be found here.
Our team for GN Audio: Valerie Faessler (patent attorney), Dr. Thomas Kronberger (patent attorney), André Nickel (patent attorney), Sebastian Ochs (attorney-at-law)