Berlin, July 2017: Stage Tec, the Berlin based manufacturer of digital audio equipment, has won a patent dispute lasting several years against the patent ‘Device and method for using audio plug-ins in a mixing console‘. The 20th Board of Appeal of the Federal Patent Court of Germany handed down the decision in early July. Lawo AG filed the patent in 2007. In the course of the proceedings, several international manufacturers of audio mixing consoles suspected that this was an