Pfeffersaeckchen, Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof), 6 March 2012

If the patent provides a multi-level method to be applied in more than one production entity (here: the preparation of sausage casing as endless rolls and their automatic filling at the sausage manufacturers'), the "skilled person" can be a team of several persons specialized in different disciplines, e.g. mechanical engineering, process technology and food technology, whose knowledge is combined.

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