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CISG-online number
1364
Case name
Blank CDs case
Jurisdiction
Austria
Court
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Judges
Dr. Peter Schinko (Presiding Judge), Dr. Friedrich Fellinger (Judge), Dr. Helge Hoch (Judge), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Neumayr (Judge), Dr. Wolfgang Schramm (Judge)
Date of decision
12 September 2006
Case nr./docket nr.
10 Ob 122/05x
Claimant 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller's insolvency administrator
Respondent 1
Place of business
Austria
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Blank CDs case
Landesgericht Innsbruck (District Court Innsbruck)
Austria, 20 December 2004 – 8 Cg 232/01w-71, CISG-online 3248
Blank CDs case
Oberlandesgericht Innsbruck (Court of Appeal Innsbruck)
Austria, 21 June 2005 – 1 R 89/05f-76, CISG-online 3249
reversing in part
Present decision reversing and remanding
Seller 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in trade
Dealer / Trader
Buyer 1
Place of business
Austria
Role in trade
Dealer / Trader
Category of goods
89: Miscellaneous manufactured articles, not elsewhere specified
Goods as per contract
1,584,800 blank Compact Discs (CDs) (made in Taiwan)
Price
283'606.71 ATS (Austrian Schilling)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 42; Art. 43; Art. 46(3)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 35
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Burden of proof
This decision cites the following other CISG-online cases 2
Pork liver case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 25 January 2006 – 7 Ob 302/05wg, CISG-online 1223
Glass recycling machine case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 08 November 2005 – 4 Ob 179/05k, CISG-online 1156
This decision is cited by 2
Paprika powder case IV
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 14 February 2012 – 10 Ob 4/12d, CISG-online 2308
Waterjet cutting machine case I
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 30 November 2006 – 6 Ob 257/06x, CISG-online 1417
Decision published in 1
Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2007), 39–42 [Full text – in German]
CLOUT number
753
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
060912a3
Comments on this decision 3
Ruth M. Janal, 'The Seller’s Responsibility for Third Party Intellectual Property Rights under the Vienna Sales Convention', in: Camilla Baasch Andersen & Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds.), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill (2008), 203–231 [– in English]
Simon P. Weikinger, 'Schutzrechte Dritter im UN-Kaufrecht (CISG)', ecolex - Fachzeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ecolex) (2007), 194 [– in German]
Wentong Zheng, 'Chapter 15: Sales and Intellectual Property Rights', in: Larry A. DiMatteo, André Janssen, Ulrich Magnus & Reiner Schulze (eds.), International Sales Law: A Handbook, 2nd ed., Munich / Oxford / Baden-Baden: C.H. Beck / Hart / Nomos (2021), 445–463, at no. 16–17 [– in English]
Full text, translation and abstract of decision 3
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 753 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: German
Translation of decision
Language: English
translated by
Jan Henning Berg & Daniel Nagel