Sweframe guilty of Bromma copyright infringement

In a judgment dated 19 June 2014, the District Court of Västerås in Sweden has found SweFrame Port Equipment AB guilty of copyright infringements, having unlawfully reproduced copies of some 18,000 of Bromma’s drawings, manuals and similar documents with respect to its second generation all-electric yard crane spreaders.

Last year a Swedish court imposed fines on two of Sweframe’s employees for similar copyright infringements.

In this latest incident, Sweframe has been prohibited from further reproducing or distributing Bromma’s documents under penalty of a fine of SEK 10,000 (US$1500) per document.  The court has also ordered that the documents be confiscated from SweFrame and be destroyed by the Swedish police.