Continuous infringement: The General Court delivers rulings of much interest in the marine hose case (Parker ITR)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Trib.UE, 17 May 2013, Parker ITR, cases T-147/09 and T-148/09 Trib.UE, 17 May 2013, Parker ITR, Case T-154/09 The three judgments rendered by the Tribunal in the Marine Pipe case are most interesting in that they provide jurisprudence at different levels of analysis, from the establishment of the infringement to the sanction, accountability and leniency. It will be recalled that this case had been the subject of extensive parallel searches and inspections between authorities in Europe, the United States and Japan, with criminal charges also being brought against a number of executives of the companies concerned in the United Kingdom. On 28 January 2009,