Short Summary
1 Milan - Local Division UPC_CFI_472/2024 Procedural Order of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court delivered on 24/01/2025 Order no. ORD_68844/2024 DAINESE S.p.A. - Plaintiff - against ALPINESTARS S.p.A. - Defendant 1 - and against ALPINESTARS RESEARCH S.p
Detailed Summary
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Milan - Local Division
UPC_CFI_472/2024
of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court
delivered on 24/01/2025
Order no. ORD_68844/2024
DAINESE S.p.A.
- Plaintiff -
against
ALPINESTARS S.p.A.
- Defendant 1 -
and against
ALPINESTARS RESEARCH S.p.A.
- Defendant 2 -
and against
OMNIA RETAIL S.R.L.
- Defendant 3 -
and against
HORIZON MOTO 95 MAXXESS CERGY
- Defendant 4 -
and against
ZUND.STOFF AUGSBURG
- Defendant 5 –
and against
MOTOCARD BIKE, S.L.
- Defendant 6 –
PATENT AT ISSUE
Patent no.
Proprietor/s
EP4072364
Dainese S.p.A.
EP3498117
Dainese S.p.A.
No SPC details provided
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Patent no.
SPC details
SPC ID
National Designations
No
DECIDING JUDGE
Judge-rapporteur
Alima Zana
COMPOSITION OF PANEL – FULL PANEL
Presiding judge
Pierluigi Perrotti
Judge-rapporteur
Alima Zana
Legally qualified judge
Anna-Lena Klein
Technically qualified judge Graham Ashley
LANGUAGE OF PROCEEDINGS: English
ORDER
1 SUMMARY OF FACTS
On 2 December 2024, Dainese spa (claimant in the main proceeding) has put forward information
in its partial withdraw (App. 63772/2024), alleging its confidential nature.
With regard to said information Dainese submitted an application for protection of confidential
information under R. 262A RoP using the dedicated workflow in the CMS( 63878/2024) and
uploading a redacted versions of their written submissions.
By orders filed on 4 December 2024 and 10 January 2025 the judge rapporteur invited the other
parties to comment the application.
On 17 January 2025 the defendant n.1 requested that:
- that the Claimant's application under Rule 262A is rejected.
- in alternative:
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b) that the Claimant is ordered to provide a revised version of the redacted
document, where only strictly sensitive information are redacted, and access to
such document is granted to Defendant.
Same and identical claims were filed by the defendant n. 6, MOTOCARD BIKE, S.L.
The Defendant 2) specified to not have any interest in knowing
No other comments were filed by the other parties.
GROUNDS OF THE ORDER
1.2.General profiles
This ruling complies with:
- the principles of flexibility, proportionality and fairness set out in Preamble 2 of the P.o.R. and the
need to protect confidential information.
-the Rule n. 58 UPCA, the Rule N. 262A RoP, the Directive (EU) 2016/943 on the protection of
undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition,
use and disclosure;
- case law of the UPC on the protection of confidential information.
1.2. This order takes into account that:
--according to a non-strict construction in accordance with the purpose of the law, Article 58 UPCA
must be interpreted as meaning that it extends protection not only to trade secrets but also to
confidential information.
2. Nature of information
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2.2. The Court observes that:
This document is confidential:
•
(i) is not generally known and is not available to third parties;
•
(ii) has undoubtedly of an economic value, i
•
(iii) is protected by appropriate confidentiality measu
Practitioner Note
This case demonstrates the evidentiary and procedural standards applied in patent matters before Milan (IT) Local Division. Understanding the court's reasoning in ALPINESTARS RESEARCH S.p.A, ULRICH HERPICH E.K, Alpinestars S.p.A., OMNIA RETAIL S.R.L. , HORIZON MOTO 95 - MAXXESS CERGY , MOTOCARD BIKE, S.L. vs Dainese S.p.A. is valuable context for structuring arguments or assessing risk in similar proceedings.
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