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In an order of 2 July 2026 (UPC_CoA_935/2025), the Court of Appeal orders the appellant, a natural person doing business in Poland whose name is redacted, to provide security of EUR 28,000 for the costs of AMYCEL, LLC within three weeks of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1230/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division orders EOFLOW to pay Insulet EUR 14,000 for the costs incurred in the application for leave to appeal (UPC_CFI_1167/2025) and in the appeal concerning a penalty payment…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CoA_883/2025 and UPC_CoA_892/2025, the Court of Appeal (Panel 2) rejected Suinno's applications for rehearing of its security for costs order and its default decision of 12 July 2025, which had dismissed the…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CoA_528/2024 and UPC_CoA_529/2024 (EP 3 666 797), the Court of Appeal rejected Sanofi and Regeneron's request for suspensive effect of their application for rehearing of the decision of 25 November 2025, which…
Read the analysisIn an order of 3 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_8/2025), given in Italian by the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, the EUR 19,000 security that Bhagat Textile Engineers had deposited for the costs of Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co KG was released and…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal allows Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited to withdraw their application for rehearing (Rule 245 RoP) of an order of the Court of Appeal of 3 March 2025, issued in proceedings UPC_CoA_523/2024 against Syngenta Limited (EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 October 2025, given in joined appeals UPC_CoA_755/2025 and UPC_CoA_757/2025, the Court of Appeal rejected the request by Vivo Mobile Communication, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia to stay the infringement actions brought by Sun Patent Trust…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, App_36172/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered reimbursement to the Apple companies of 40% of the court fees paid for their revocation counterclaim against Ona Patents and Ekahau (EP 2 263 098), namely…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2025, ORD_37065/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division limited the length of written pleadings in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Merz Therapeutics, Merz Pharmaceuticals and Merz Pharma France against Viatris Santé (EP 2…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 15 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, App_36556/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Dolby International to engage, at its own cost, a simultaneous interpreter from German into English for the hearing of 16 October 2025…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the single pleading filed on 25 August 2025 by TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik in the revocation counterclaim and the amendment proceedings, in its dispute with…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_481/2025, App_34862/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted HMD Global's application and changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language in which EP 3 667 981 was granted,…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division refused to admit the new auxiliary requests to amend EP 2 624 031 filed late by TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik (Rule 30.2), together with the further pleading…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, App_35855/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered reimbursement to Ona Patents of 40% of the court fees paid for its infringement action against the Apple companies (EP 2 263 098), namely EUR 20,000,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_491/2025, App_35786/2025), the Munich Local Division rejected the application for extension of time limits filed by ECOVACS Europe, second defendant in the infringement action brought by Papst Licensing on European patent EP 3 494 446.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_495/2025, App_34320/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, granted the application of HMD Global Oy, defendant to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action on European patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, App_36126/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejected TCL Europe's request for a two-week extension, to 24 September 2025, of the time limit for its reply to the defence to revocation and its…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_629/2025, App_34566/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_551/2025, App_34568/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024 and UPC_CFI_729/2024, App_34668/2025), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Keysight Technologies' application to stay Centripetal's infringement action on European patent EP 3 821 580, and the counterclaim for revocation, pending the outcome of the EPO…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_610/2025), the presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, acting for the judge-rapporteur, granted the request of Xiaomi Technology Germany, the fifth defendant in UERAN Technology's infringement action (EP 2 385 739), to set a…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_552/2025, ORD_36084/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division declared inadmissible the request for a decision by default made by Gilead Sciences in its revocation action against the Academy of Military Medical Sciences' patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, claimant in the infringement action on European patent EP 3 567 731, to provide security for costs of EUR 100,000 in favour of MediaTek…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_801/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Belparts' application to have its action for infringement of EP 3 812 870 against IMI Hydronic International and IMI Hydronic Engineering AB heard together with the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_449/2025, App_33210/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Hewlett-Packard Development provisional measures against Andreas Rentmeister e.K., a German reseller of type 937 ink cartridges, on the basis of European patents EP 2 826 630 and EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025 and UPC_CFI_401/2025, ORD_35979/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the request of parties negotiating a settlement, stayed the Jinko companies' infringement action against the LONGi companies and two other defendants (EP 4…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_380/2023), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division dismissed the requests for rectification filed by Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants against the decision on the merits of 21 July 2025 in favour of Edwards Lifesciences (EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_848/2024 and UPC_CFI_612/2025), the standing judge of the Munich Local Division, with Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany's consent, extended to 5 September 2025 KNAPP Smart Solutions' time limits for the reply, the defence to the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, ORD_35704/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division refused Faro Technologies reimbursement of 60% of the court fees attributable to its application for provisional measures (EP 4 001 835), withdrawn on 26 August 2025…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_453/2025, ORD_35458/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, with the parties' agreement, harmonised the time limits in Eyesmatch's infringement action against five Samsung companies (EP 2 936 439).
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_521/2024, ORD_35195/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, at Decathlon's request, disregarded the part of the rejoinder filed by the defendants OWIM, Lidl and Kaufland in the application to amend proceedings that addressed the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, ORD_35509/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, on the joint application of Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development and the LONGi and Energy3000 companies, which are negotiating a settlement, stayed the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_33901/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, a claimant established in China, to provide MediaTek Germany with security for costs of EUR 150,000 within six weeks in the infringement action…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 22 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_35225/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with the agreement of all parties, stayed the proceedings on Inventronics' application for access to the file under Rule 262.1(b) in the case between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_580/2025, App_35159/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed Tridonic's infringement action against Inventronics concerning EP 2 011 218 in view of ongoing settlement discussions.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024, ORD_35239/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman) rejected Black Sheep Retail Products' application to deposit two physical objects (exhibits BB38) in HL Display's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2025, issued in appeal proceedings UPC_CoA_764/2024 and UPC_CoA_774/2024 between Seoul Viosys and expert klein and expert e-Commerce (EP 3 926 698), the Court of Appeal disregarded a brief lodged by Seoul Viosys after the oral hearing…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request by Black Sheep Retail Products, defendant to HL Display's infringement action (EP 2 432 351), to deposit three physical objects.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal refuses Yealink’s request for simultaneous interpretation from English into Mandarin Chinese at the hearing of 22 September 2025 in the appeal and cross-appeal (UPC_CoA_317/2025 and UPC_CoA_376/2025) against the provisional…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_494/2025, ORD_34789/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) rejected HMD Global's application for a one-month extension of the time limit for its statement of defence in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_452/2025, ORD_34904/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 30 September 2025 the time limit for the statement of defence of five ASUS group companies, defendants to Wilus Institute of Standards…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025, ORD_34921/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman), with no objection from the Walt Disney group defendants, granted Adeia Guides' application of 5 August 2025, made because exhibits 8…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 August 2025 (UPC_CoA_328/2024), Judge Simonsson, judge rapporteur at the Court of Appeal, ordered the release and full transfer to Kinexon Sports' bank account of the EUR 25,000 deposited by Ballinno on 30 August 2024 as security for the…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 August 2025, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the parties' joint request (App_34891/2025 of 14 August 2025) and stayed until 13 February 2026 the action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 brought by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 August 2025, issued in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 3 605 534 (UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, App_4256/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Dolby International to file a further written pleading on the FRAND…
Read the analysisIn Barco’s appeal against the order of the Brussels Local Division of 21 March 2025, which had dismissed its application for provisional measures against Yealink (EP 3 732 827) for lack of urgency, the Court of Appeal, by order of 14 August…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 13 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_191/2025, App_34218/2025 and App_34202/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly granted the applications by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma for an extension of time in their action for infringement of EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 12 August 2025 (UPC_CoA_360/2025, App_33761/2025), Judge Blok, judge rapporteur at the Court of Appeal, extended to 3 October 2025 the time limit for Cisco Systems to respond to Lionra Technologies' appeal and to lodge a cross-appeal, in the dispute…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 12 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_496/2025, ACT_26508/2025, App_34519/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the joint application of Headwater Research and the five defendant Samsung Electronics companies, replaced German with English, the language in which EP 3 110 072 was granted,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2025, ACT_7504/2025), Judge Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered Syntorr, a Cypriot company and claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 835 470, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Syntorr, claimant in an infringement action against three Arthrex companies (EP 2 670 898), to provide security for the defendants' costs of EUR 2,000,000 in total…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_66435/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) dismissed the AYLO defendants' application to fix the lawyers' fees incurred in responding to the appeal, eventually withdrawn, that DISH Technologies and Sling…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_162/2024, ACT_17365/2024, App_33935/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 20 August 2025 the time allowed to NUC Electronics to comment on Hurom's request for a penalty payment, which alleges insufficient…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_829/2024, ACT_67479/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (Judge Kupecz) refused UPM-Kymmene, claimant in the revocation action against International N&H Denmark concerning EP 2 611 800, a further exchange of written pleadings after the…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_123/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division fixed the costs recoverable by Samsung Bioepis NL from Alexion Pharmaceuticals for the provisional measures proceedings dismissed on 26 June 2024 (EP 3 167 888, Epysqli).
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CoA_70/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal ruled on the confidentiality requests filed by STRABAG Infrastructure & Safety Solutions and by the intervener Chainzone Technology (Foshan) in the appeal against the Vienna Local Division's decision of…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's request of 25 July 2025 under Rule 36 for leave to file a further written pleading in its infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_197/2025, App_33539/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division postponed until after the oral hearing the decision on the conditional request for a stay filed by Anker Innovations Technology and the other defendants in Powermat…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025, given in both proceedings UPC_CFI_587/2025 and UPC_CFI_624/2025 (ACT_30994/2025 and ACT_32414/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the applications by A.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 12 August 2025, for both parties, the time limit for comments on a third party's (Taylor Wessing) request for access under Rule 262.1(b)…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_213/2025, App_33426/2025), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division panel, acting as judge-rapporteur, attached a penalty payment of up to EUR 30,000 per day to the information obligation imposed on 10 July 2025 on…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom, judge-rapporteur, Agergaard and Hedberg, technically qualified judge), with the defendant's consent, allowed N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_761/2024, App_24515/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed Oerlikon Textile's application under Rule 353 RoP to rectify the costs decision of 9 May 2025 against Bhagat Textile Engineers (EP 2 145 848).
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the parties' joint request (Rule 295(d) RoP), stayed Syngenta's infringement action against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro Europe (EP 2 152 073) and the…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_492/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, granted the request of the defendants Beijing Roborock Technology, Roborock Germany and Roborock International, sued for infringement of EP 3 030 943 by PAPST…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_381/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, ruled on the request of Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon, in proceedings against RiVOLUTiON on EP 2 515 768, to be assisted at their…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_579/2025), Judge Gougé, judge-rapporteur at the Court of Appeal, granted OTEC Präzisionsfinish two weeks to reply to a new experiment filed by STEROS GPA Innovative with its statement of response, in the appeal against the provisional…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2025), Judge Schumacher, judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, extended to 15 September 2025 the time limits for the reply and the defence to the counterclaim for revocation of QIAGEN Sciences, which is suing bioMérieux and…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2025, App_23201/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann, Judge Pichlmaier as judge rapporteur, and Judge Schober) dismissed ALD Vacuum Technologies' application to revoke the order for preservation of evidence and inspection granted to Nanoval on…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge-rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Lopes, and technically qualified Judge Fulconis) joined TIRU's infringement actions against MAGUIN and against VALINEA ENERGIE, based on EP 3 178 578 (waste…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_79/2025 and UPC_CFI_605/2025, ORD_33008/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) rejected Malikie Innovations' request to align on 10 September 2025 its time periods for the defence to Discord's counterclaim for revocation and for an application…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, App_33041/2025, ORD_33180/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division), in agreement with the presiding judge, refused to postpone the hearing of 1 September 2025 in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Faro Technologies against PMT…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_351/2025, APP_30013/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the application of POSITEC Germany, defendant in Husqvarna's infringement action under EP 3 978…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_750/2024, ORD_32720/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended to 11 August 2025, over Fingon's objection, the time periods for Samsung Electronics' rejoinder in the infringement action under EP 2 839 403 and its reply…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_770/2024, App_26266/2025), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, Zana and Knijff) dismissed Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber's request for re-establishment of rights, made in order to challenge out of time the ex parte seizure of tyres at the…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_292/2025, App_22463/2025), Florence Butin, President of the Court of First Instance, changed the language of InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action against eleven Disney companies before the Mannheim Local Division from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_178/2024 and UPC_CFI_432/2024), the judge rapporteur Perrotti (Milan Local Division) set the value of Progress Maschinen & Automation's infringement action against AWM and Schnell at EUR 2,000,000, and the same for the revocation counterclaim, the parties…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the Court of Appeal’s judge-rapporteur orders that 60% of the appeal court fees be reimbursed to Tandem Diabetes (UPC_CoA_120/2025). The appeal was directed at the Paris Central Division’s decision of 18 December 2024 dismissing the revocation…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) ordered Headwater Research, proprietor of EP 3 110 069, to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 to the three Motorola companies and EUR 100,000 to Flextronics International…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 3 July 2025, the judge rapporteur Zigann (Munich Local Division) dismissed for lack of legal interest Lenovo (Singapore)'s request to extend from 7 to 9 July 2025 its time to reply to the ASUSTek defendants' brief of 13…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the application of Renault Retail Group Deutschland, Renault Deutschland and Renault S.A.S., defendants in the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales before the Munich Local…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on cross-applications for security for costs in Headwater Research's infringement action (EP 3 110 072) against three Motorola companies and Flextronics International Europe, all of which…
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