Subscribe to our newsletter now and be the first to receive information about discounts and new products! Thermomix’s patent ought to be declared invalid, as Lidl filed a parallel invalidity action on Vorwek’s patent.

Monsieur Cuisine is a 1,050W appliance and it reaches a temperature of 130°C for frying and boiling. With that finding, the Court of Appeals understood that the first attack of invalidity on the grounds of added subject-matter had to be upheld, which determined the invalidity of claim 1 and thus the invalidity of the entire patent. And this is quite a mean sales practice, because proposing application upgrades without proposing the fermentation or smoothies mode than the Smart model offers for instance is actually. Nicki Minaj releases Megan Thee Stallion diss track Big Foot and hits low: 'Why did you lie about your lipo? Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day.I had to weigh in all the ingredients on a separate scale (the Thermomix has a built in scale which makes a noticeable difference when washing up). However, you should not fill it with more than 3 litres of food, which is also the limit of the scale in the pot.

The operation of the appliances via the touch display is very similar, but the structure and appearance of the menus is much more modern on the newer Silvercrest model, however its software often crashes. Lidl counter attacked by asking for the invalidity of Vorwerk’s patent, since they considered that the patent lacked the novelty requirement and exceeded the claims when validating the patent application in Spain. German retailer Lidl will be allowed to sell its popular Monsieur Cuisine kitchen robot after all as the Barcelona provincial court ruled that its appliance does not violate a patent held by Vorwerk for Thermomix, thereby overturning a lower court ruling a year earlier. Due to the similarity of Monsieur Cuisine (on the left in the picture) with Thermomix (on the right in the picture), the two companies entered legal proceedings in Spain initiated by an infringement suit filed by Vorwerk, alleging that Lidl had copied their Thermomix food processor, which has rights acquired with a granted Spanish patent still in force ES2301589 (validation of Worwek’s European patent EP1269898).The Masked Singer UK's Lorraine Kelly, 64, delighted judges guessed she was 'a wee lassie': 'I need to ring Frankie Bridge to apologise! Last year, a Court in Barcelona considered that the German supermarket Lidl was infringing Vorwerk’s patent over Thermomix.