A German court has ruled in favour of Electronics For Imaging (EFI) and its Vutek super-wide format printer unit, in its German patent litigation with Durst Fototechnik Digital Technology involving EFI's Vutek QS series printers with white ink technology.
Durst brought the lawsuit in the Mannheim Regional Court on February 27, 2007, accusing the QS series of infringing its DE 20 2005 012 179 U1 utility model. EFI maintained that it employed the technology in its QS printers well before Durst obtained its utility model. Under German law, a utility model is an intellectual property right to protect inventions, very similar to a US patent.
The expert appointed by the court agreed with EFI that Durst's utility model claims ‘were not novel and lacked any inventive step’. The German court has now entirely dismissed Durst's infringement claims against EFI.
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