German court decision
Orange-Book-Standard (Az. KZR 39/06) is a decision issued on May 6, 2009 by the Federal Court of Justice of Germany (German : Bundesgerichtshof , BGH) on the interaction between patent law and technical standards , and more generally between intellectual property law and competition law . The Court held that a defendant, accused of patent infringement and who was not able to obtain a license from the patentee, may defend himself, under certain conditions, by invoking an abuse of a dominant market position .[ 1]
The name "Orange-Book-Standard" comes from the Orange Book that contained the format specifications for CD-Rs , the technology at issue in the case that led to the Orange-Book-Standard decision.[ 2]
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(in German) Decision (case number: "KZR 39/06") (a translation is available here )
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Discs Technology Hardware/software/content Court cases Lists Variants based on CD See also