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CISG-online number
1057
Case name
Industrial ink-jet printers case II
Jurisdiction
Germany
Court
Oberlandesgericht Köln (Court of Appeal Cologne)
Date of decision
15 September 2004
Case nr./docket nr.
16 W 27/04
Claimant 1
Place of business
France
Role in transaction
Buyer
Respondent 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Case History
Industrial ink-jet printers case II
Tribunal de Commerce de Bourg-en-Bresse (Commercial Court Bourg-en-Bresse)
France, 12 March 2004 – 2003 006037, CISG-online 3500
Industrial ink-jet printers case II
Landgericht Köln (District Court Cologne)
Germany, 08 June 2004 – 3 O 256/04, CISG-online 3499
declaring foreign judgment enforceable
Present decision affirming in part, reversing in part
Seller 1
Place of business
Germany
Buyer 1
Place of business
France
Category of goods
74: General industrial machinery and equipment, not elsewhere specified, and machine parts, not elsewhere specified
Goods as per contract
Ink-jet printers for industrial purposes
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 7(2); Art. 78
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 25; Art. 49(1)(a)
This decision cites the following other CISG-online cases 2
Motorcycle clothing case
Oberlandesgericht Köln (Court of Appeal Cologne)
Germany, 28 May 2001 – 16 U 1/01, CISG-online 681
Benetton II case
Bundesgerichtshof (German Supreme Court)
Germany, 23 July 1997 – VIII ZR 134/96, CISG-online 276
Decision published in 7
Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des Internationalen Privatrechts (IPRspr) (2004), No. 166, 372–375 [Full text – in German]
European Legal Forum (EuLF) (2004), 387–388 [Full text – in German]
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift – Rechtsprechungs-Report (NJW-RR) (2005), 932–933 [Full text – in German]
OLG-Report (OLGR) Köln (2005), 88–90 [Full text – in German]
Insolvenz & Vollstreckung (InVo) (2005), 250–252 [Full text – in German]
Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2005), 161–163 [Full text – in German]
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) (2006), 51–52 [Full text – in German]
Comments on this decision 2
Sibylle Calabresi-Scholz, European Legal Forum (EuLF) (2004), 388–389 [– in German]
Herbert Roth, 'Systembedingt offene Auslandstitel (zu OLG Zweibrücken, 15.12.2004 - 3 W 207/04, unten S. 49, Nr. 6a, und OLG Köln, 25.9.2004 - 16 W 27/04, unten S. 51, Nr. 6b)', Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) (2006), 22–24 [– in German]
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Original language: German