MPEG-2-Videosignalcodierung, Federal Patent Court (Bundesgerichtshof), 21 August 2012
The Federal Court of Justice held that data can be a product directly obtained by a patented process and can therefore be protected. An important issue was whether patent rights were exhausted, if the patentee consented to market a video masterband and the infringer used this masterband to produce DVDs The court discussed whether there…