CUP&CINO v Alpina Coffee (UPC_CFI_519/2024, UPC_CFI_47/2025 & UPC_CFI_52/2025)

• Article 58 UPCA and Rule 262A RoP provide for protection of confidential information. Alpina Coffee made an application to protect trade secrets and other confidential information. The Düsseldorf LD found the application to be admissible and successful in substance.
• The information contained in the unredacted version of its submissions related to Alpina Coffee's employee numbers, annual turnover, and annual balance sheet totals, which was found to be confidential.
• In judicial proceedings, access to documents containing or alleged to contain business secrets, submitted by the parties or third parties, may, upon request, be restricted in whole or in part to a limited number of persons.
• The requirements of Rule 262A RoP and Article 58 UPCA were met and therefore a protective order restricting access to the information to specified individuals at CUP&CINO was issued. CUP&CINO raised no objections.

This analysis is based on a machine translation of a decision not available in English.