Doppelvertretung im Nichtigkeitsverfahren, Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), 18 December 2012

Regarding the question whether costs for double representation of a party by a patent attorney and an attorney-at-law are reimbursable the Court held that these costs are to be reimbursed at least in a situation where parallel infringement proceedings concerning the same patent are pending before a civil court and in which the same party or an affiliate of that party is involved.

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