Food & Water Archives

Orbisk and Hoyng ROKH successfully fend off Winnow's UPC suit

The Dutch company Orbisk has won a round in its dispute over food waste management solutions for commercial kitchens. For now, it can continue selling its product Orbi in Europe. The UPC local divisio ...

14 August 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Amycel, Spyra Szymon Spyra, mushrooms, UPC, local division The Hague

Patentability of fungi

Amycel scores a win as UPC decides on patentability of fungi

The issue of patenting plants has long been controversial, but mushrooms are a different story. Now the local division The Hague has issued a prelimin ...

5 August 2024 by Konstanze Richter

Cases

Food technology

Lindt infringes vegan chocolate patent in Germany

Düsseldorf Regional Court finds the Swiss chocolatier Lindt has infringed a patent for the composition of vegan chocolate. The lawsuit was brought by ...

22 May 2024 by Mathieu Klos

People & Business

Germany

Meissner Bolte bolsters team with renowned lawyers in plant-variety protection

Munich IP boutique Würtenberger joins Meissner Bolte at the turn of the year with its three fee earners. These are the experienced trademark lawyer an ...

16 December 2021 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Consumer goods

Ocado and AutoStore expand robot-assisted technology war to Europe

Ocado has filed several patent infringement suits against competitor AutoStore in Germany, taking the dispute to the next level. The new litigation fo ...

30 March 2021 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Biodegradable packaging, Judicial Court of Paris

French case law

French court decides no sequencing in biodegradable packaging case

In a biodegradable packaging case, a French court has decided against 'sequencing' - separate hearings on validity and infringement. For some French l ...

15 March 2021 by Konstanze Richter

Cases

Germany

Envipco and DPG settle dispute over bottle deposit system

Envipco and the operator of the German bottle deposit system DPG have settled their long-running dispute over a technology for sorting returnable bott ...

4 March 2021 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

European patent for teff, teff, Ethiopian grain teff

Teff flour patent

Heuking attempts to revoke teff flour patent

Rarely do patents impact the political discourse of a nation. But Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek's case against the German part of the European patent for t ...

21 May 2019 by Amy Sandys

Cases

Syngenta, Boards of Appeal, pepper plant

Genetically modified plants

Some like it hot

The patent for a novel pepper plant is once again within Syngenta's grasp. The patent had previously been rejected but in the seed company's appeal, t ...

6 December 2018 by Mathieu Klos

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