Sentenced Volkswagen – VW DSG patent inventor must pay – defeat for firm CBH Kurt Bartenbach renewed it is already the 4th defeat before the Patent Chamber of the Frankfurt District Court, the Volkswagen in connection with DSG learns patents. Dealing with patents, and a variety of inventions for the production of the new DSG direct transmissions from VW and the continuously variable Multitronic transmission, which are produced in the VW works in Kassel for Audi. VW must now pay for the patents, so the Court’s decision. Inventor is the former VW Manager Holger sprinkler from Espenau, now more than 20 property rights at the German Patent Office were published under his name. Sprinkler is also top inventor in the patent-information center of the University of Kassel.

After sprinkler made several inventions and developments at Volkswagen and VW wanted to sign, took the events run their course. When the gearbox construction manager Jurgen Tischler tried to exert pressure on sprinklers to prevent the official gear, turned the inventor directly to the VW Board. During his research, why putting pressure on It exercised as the inventor, Sprenger was met with requests from project funds, to which there were no actual orders and more inconsistencies. The differences would be blown certainly VW internally when an exact calculation of the economic benefits of his inventions. The VW corporate internal audit examined the planning documents and conducted a plant inspection of sprinkler developments in the Kassel factory. As a result, the Corporate Audit Department attested that it is not the implementation of employee inventions. The specialists of the VW argued patent department Thomas Ahrens and Andreas Wessling, and Dr. Frank Fabian from VW’s Legal Division of General Counsel Michael Ganninger to Patent Office and Court congruent. After sprinkler affiliated reported on his inventions even before the Patent Office and these were also issued, VW massive attack him.