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On 17 July 2026, Munich Regional Court, presided over by judge Hubertus Schacht, handed down its judgment in the infringement proceedings brought by KaVo Dental against MK-Dent (case ID: 21 O 596\/25). Also named as defendants were the online dental equipment retailer Global-Dent and the dental spare parts supplier Sparedent.<\/p>\n
The court found that all three defendants had infringed KaVo\u2019s EP 1 709 928 B1, which relates to high-speed dental turbines. This affects both numerous types of turbine impellers and entire turbines in which these impellers are fitted.<\/p>\n
As EP 928 expired in March 2026, the proceedings no longer concerned an injunction but rather damages only. Accordingly, the court ordered MK-Dent and its co-defendants to provide information, render accounts, recall and destroy the products,\u00a0 and reimburse the costs of the cease-and-desist notice.<\/p>\n
In addition to Schacht, the panel of Civil Chamber 21 also comprises Sebastian Benz and Julia Obermeier.<\/p>\n
Damages over eleven years<\/p>\n
The ruling followed a decision by the German Federal Patent Court, which in June 2026 dismissed MK-Dent\u2019s nullity action against EP 928.<\/p>\n
KaVo has not yet enforced the judgment, but may now claim damages from MK-Dent and its co-defendants for the period from January 2015 to March 2026. The latter have not yet decided whether to appeal against the judgment.<\/p>\n
Established players in a niche market<\/p>\n
The dispute involves two established players in a technically demanding and commercially significant market segment. KaVo Dental is a long-established German manufacturer that has been a driving force in the international dental industry for decades. Since 1909, it has manufactured devices such as dental turbines and contra-angle handpieces. Today, KaVo is part of the Finnish Planmeca Group.<\/p>\n
MK-Dent is likewise a well-known German supplier of dental instruments and dental technology products. The company is family-owned.<\/p>\n
According to industry sources, KaVo is regarded as one of the drivers of innovation in the dental turbine segment. Many MK-Dent products are compatible with KaVo products. However, Japanese and US companies are also active in this segment.<\/p>\n
Dental turbines are among the key instruments of modern dentistry. Technical innovations in this field have a direct impact on the performance, reliability and competitiveness of the products. However, patent disputes in this technical field are relatively rare.<\/p>\n
Mitscherlich for KaVo<\/p>\n
KaVo relied on a mixed team from the Munich-based IP firm\u00a0Mitscherlich<\/a>, with lawyer Markus B\u00f6lling and patent attorney Clemens Thun leading the case. In-house, the proceedings were coordinated by Dietrich Peterka, head of IP at KaVo.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tMarkus B\u00f6lling<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tClemens Thun<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tFriedrich Emmerling<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tChristian Donle Preu Bohlig<\/a> partners Christian Donle and Martin Momtschilow represented MK-Dent, Global-Dent and Sparedent. They worked alongside patent attorneys Friedrich Emmerling and Stefan Demmel of\u00a0Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling<\/a>.<\/p>\n For many years, Emmerling and Donle have litigated together in a different technical sector, namely mobile communications on behalf of Huawei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 17 July 2026, Munich Regional Court, presided over by judge Hubertus Schacht, handed down its judgment in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-552506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Markus](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Markus-Bolling_Mitscherlich-400x300-1-300x225.jpg\")
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