
The Munich I Regional Court has decided that SAP violates a patent of the start-up Celonis and is no longer allowed to use the technology in Germany.
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Celonis and SAP have been in a legal dispute over data and trade secrets for years. The current ruling concerns a patent for measuring throughput times in business processes.
Dusseldorf. Celonis and SAP have been fighting in court for years - it's about data, trade secrets and dominance in a growing market. The Munich I Regional Court has now made its first decision.
According to the ruling, the DAX group SAP violated one of the start-up's patents and is no longer allowed to use the technology in Germany. In addition, compensation is due. This emerges from the written justification available to the Handelsblatt (file number: 7 O 12849/25).
The judgment is not yet final and SAP wants to appeal. The group has also challenged the validity of the patent before the Federal Patent Court (case no. 6 Ni 17/26 (EP)). SAP said there are several legal disputes with Celonis - the “top priority” is “that customers are not affected by this”.
Celonis, on the other hand, sees its own legal opinion confirmed: “We consistently protect our intellectual property and continue to advocate for fair competition,” the company said.
Specifically, the patent is about a method for precisely measuring throughput times in business processes. In customer service, for example, the technology records every step of a fault report - from the incoming call to the internal order to the dispatch of a replacement device.
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SAP will appeal the ruling.
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