<specialist judges with many years of experience decide whether patent infringement has occurred. In particular, the Dusseldorf District Court handles hundreds of patent infringement actions a year and has dealt with patent litigation for over 75 years - and this experience extends to the Dusseldorf Appeal Court. Therefore, decisions issued under the German judge-based system are far more predictable than decisions made by juries, whose ability to follow every technical intricacy may be limited.>

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