Supreme Court rules non-divided cooperative bears liability for debts of newly registered entity after deregistration.

The Supreme Court resolved a legal question regarding the liability of a cooperative after its registered division was annulled and the new entity deregistered. The plaintiff sought payment from the original cooperative for a patent project used by the newly formed entity, which had operated independently despite the invalid division. The court held that the original cooperative remains liable because the new entity acted in its own name and no statutory provision mandates the transfer of pre-existing debts upon deregistration.