Germany: Zugfederklemme, Federal Court of Justice, X ZR 3/14, 23 August 2016
May 3, 2017
In this case, the Federal Court of Justice considered the value of a secondary indicium for a decision on inventive step. The FCJ confirmed that if an invention differs from the decades-old general practice in the relevant technical field, then this may be an auxiliary criterion supporting inventive step.
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law
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