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By order of 2 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_245/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the application by SWARCO FUTURIT, claimant in the action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, for Shenzhen Dianming, intervening in support of the defendant,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 2 July 2025, Judge Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge rapporteur (Mannheim Local Division), extended by two weeks, until 29 July 2025, Corning's time to file its reply to the statement of defence and defence to the counterclaim, including…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, Schumacher, Kokke, Schober) dismissed the three applications for partial refund of court fees filed by F.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended until 14 July 2025 Palo Alto Networks' time for its rejoinder on infringement, its reply on the counterclaim for revocation and its defence to the application to amend…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended until 14 August 2025 the time for the statements of defence of DJI GmbH and Solectric, defendants 3 and 4 in Irdeto's infringement action on EP 2 831…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Schilling (Hamburg Local Division) stayed for three months the whole of Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy decision of 19 June 2025, the Court of Appeal rejects as not allowable Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ application for rehearing of its order of 20 December 2024, which had upheld the refusal of provisional measures against nine Amgen group companies based on EP…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, EP 2 404 516), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling), on referral from the judge-rapporteur, held inadmissible GISELA MAYER's application for security for costs of EUR 50,000…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CoA_402/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Alexion Pharmaceuticals' application for rehearing of its order of 20 December 2024, which had upheld the refusal of provisional measures against Samsung Bioepis (EP 3 167 888, treatment of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_297/2025, EP 2 080 349), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, ordered that the proceedings brought by InterDigital CE Patent Holdings against…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, EP 3 742 231), Judge-rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) granted the joint request of Esko-Graphics Imaging and the XSYS companies to stay, under Rule 295(d), the infringement action, the counterclaim for revocation and the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, EP 3 296 274), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) ruled on two applications in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning Incorporated.
Read the analysisIn Fingon's action against Samsung for infringement of EP 2 839 403, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division held that the new examples added in the reply (Galaxy S25, further trusted applications) did not amend the claim, refused to extend…
Read the analysisIn 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience (EP 2 697 391), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge rapporteur, amended the confidentiality order of 11 March 2024 to replace two unavailable paralegals with two other named…
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division rectified under Rule 353 the order of 23 May 2025 on Moderna's preliminary objections in the actions brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_192/2025, EP 2 279 254 and EP 4 241…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division rectified under Rule 353 its decision of 4 April 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences' action against Meril on EP 3 669 828 and the counterclaim, on the five points Edwards did not oppose (items 1, 2, 3, 7 and…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 June 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed, at the joint request of all parties, the revocation counterclaims and applications to amend concerning EP 3 498 117 in Dainese v Alpinestars, until the final decision…
Read the analysisThe Hamburg Local Division granted Lionra re-establishment of rights for the Rule 151 period, which expired on 19 March 2025, within which it had to start cost proceedings following the merits decision of 19 February 2025 against Cisco (EP 2 201 740).
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the Hamburg Local Division ordered Easee B.V., Yves Prevoo and Easee Holding B.V. to provide joint security of EUR 75,000 for the costs of Visibly, proprietor of EP 3 918 974 (UPC_CFI_525/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division determined, for clarification purposes, that Sunstar Engineering Europe had validly chosen English as the language of the proceedings in its infringement action on EP 4 108 413 against…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the Court of Appeal granted Harvard (President and Fellows of Harvard College), the appellant, reimbursement of 40% of the appeal court fees, not the 60% it sought, after NanoString Technologies Europe withdrew its revocation action against…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025 (the heading bears the date 26 May), the Düsseldorf Local Division, at Grundfos's request and with no objection from Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, corrected several obvious clerical errors in its decision of 8 May 2025…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Siemens' application for security for costs against Hologic, a US company suing it for infringement of EP 2 352 431 B1 (UPC_CFI_758/2024, with the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_259/2025).
Read the analysisBy order of 20 May 2025 (UPC_CoA_430/2025), the Court of Appeal rejected Chint New Energy's application for suspensive effect and expedition of its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 5 May 2025, which required it to provide security for costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division set 2 July 2025 as the deadline for the statement of defence of both defendants (Discord Inc.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 May 2025 (ORD_18861/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Total Semiconductor's request to file a further written submission after Texas Instruments' rejoinder in the action for infringement of EP 2 746 957 (UPC_CFI_132/2024).
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 May 2025 (ORD_16635/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division postponed, until the oral hearing at the latest, the decision on Centripetal's conditional application for leave to amend its case (Rule 263) in its action against…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division set at EUR 84,950 the costs that Bette must reimburse to Franz Kaldewei following the decision on the merits of 3 July 2024 on EP 3 375 337…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 13 May 2025 (ORD_18791/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential information contained in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim against MediaTek, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential the highlighted information in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim in its infringement action against MediaTek (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisBy order of 13 May 2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Kodak's application for rectification of its decision of 2 April 2025 in FUJIFILM's action for infringement of EP 3 476 616, with a counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_359/2023).
Read the analysisBy order of 9 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) set 3 July 2025 as the uniform deadline for the Statements of defence of the three ZTE group defendants in Samsung Electronics' infringement action on EP 4 050 804…
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division dismissed Yealink's application under Rule 353 to rectify the final order of 21 March 2025 issued in the provisional measures proceedings concerning EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_582/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 8 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended to 19 May 2025, without opposition from the defendants, the time available to Polidoro, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 037 175 against Bekaert Combustion Technology…
Read the analysisOn an application by the Disney companies, defendants in InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 465 265 (video coding) before the Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_86/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, changed the language of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_328/2025, APL_16780/2025, App_19228/2025), the Court of Appeal stays Juul Labs International’s appeal against the Paris Central Division’s decision of 7 February 2025 which, on NJOY Netherlands’ action, had revoked EP 3 504 990 for eight states.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 April 2025, the judge rapporteur Thomas (Düsseldorf Local Division) took note of Curio Bioscience's intention to provide samples in 10x Genomics' infringement action on EP 2 697 391 (UPC_CFI_140/2024).
Read the analysisIn FUJIFILM's infringement action on EP 3 476 616 against three Kodak companies (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) allowed only in part the replacement of three of the nine members of the claimant's confidentiality club: two replacements were admitted,…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 April 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) gave effect to the parties' agreement in Powermat Technologies' infringement action on EP 2 481 141 against six Anker group companies (UPC_CFI_197/2025): service is deemed effected on 30 April…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_5/2025), the Court of Appeal stayed Juul Labs' appeal against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 5 November 2024, which had revoked its patent EP 3 498 115 at the suit of NJOY…
Read the analysisOn an application by the Disney companies, defendants in InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 449 782 (video coding) before the Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_87/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, changed the language of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_237/2025, APL_13193/2025, App_14082/2025), the Court of Appeal stays Juul Labs International’s appeal against the Paris Central Division’s decision of 17 January 2025 which, on NJOY Netherlands’ action, had revoked EP 3 430 921 for eight states.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 24 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_738/2024 and UPC_CFI_241/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division extended uniformly to 16 June 2025 the time limits, expiring on 28 May 2025, for Rädlinger Maschinenbau to reply to Henle Baumaschinentechnik's statement of defence and to respond…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_196/2025, App_19188/2025, ORD_19329/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, granted the application of the five Samsung defendants in Maxell's infringement action on EP 2 403 266.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025, ACT_7567/2025, ORD_19051/2025), Judge-rapporteur Zigann of the Munich Local Division gave effect to the parties' agreement in the infringement action on EP 4 372 829 brought by Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management and Zhejiang…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_520/2024, APL_51079/2024), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, presiding, Blok and Gougé, judge-rapporteur) refused Scandit a refund of 20% of the fees for its appeal against the provisional measures order of the Munich Local Division of…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_628/2024, App_8962/2025), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered AorticLab, defendant to Emboline's infringement action on EP 2 129 425 and counterclaimant for revocation, to provide security of EUR 200,000 for Emboline's costs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Headwater Research's application to sever its infringement action (EP 3 110 069), insofar as it targets Flextronics International Europe, the fifth defendant, from the proceedings against…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023, ACT_568963/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding, Kupecz and Pichlmaier) ordered the immediate continuation of the written procedure in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11612/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) ordered Promosome, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365, to deposit security for costs of EUR 1,500,000 into the UPC account within three weeks of service,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023 and UPC_CFI_676/2024, App_14059/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, permitted Meril Life Sciences to withdraw its cost application (EUR 8,379) and confidentiality applications arising from a third party, Mr…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023 and UPC_CFI_674/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division allowed Meril to withdraw its applications for reimbursement of the costs incurred in opposing a third party's request for access to the file, made by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024, App_17158/2025), Presiding Judge Tochtermann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the requests by the TCL, Hisense and LG defendants to split into three Corning's infringement action on EP 3 296 274,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_13218/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding, Thom, Agergaard and Schober) corrected under Rule 353 its decision of 7 March 2025 between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen Xiezhen Electronics (EP 2 011 218): the…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024), Judge Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the applications for a stay (Rule 295(m) RoP) filed by nine Hisense, TCL and LG group companies, defendants to Corning Incorporated's infringement action…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_429/2024, ORD_55997/2024), Judge Sabine Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Hamburg Local Division, dismissed the application for security for costs filed on 7 October 2024 by Chint New Energy Technology and five companies of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_68708/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judges Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, Zhilova and Samoud, technically qualified) rejected Microsoft Corporation's application for a decision by default against Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division (Judges Brinkman, presiding, Lopez and Kokke, rapporteur) rejected the application for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) filed by the defendant, a natural person whose name is redacted, in Amycel LLC's…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2024, ORD_7652/2025, reissued as ORD_15972/2025 for technical reasons), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division refused Total Semiconductor, LLC leave to file a further written submission of 13 February 2025 in reply to the rejoinder of…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, ORD_15869/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, extended from 3 to 8 April 2025, with Headwater Research's consent, the time for the three Samsung Electronics companies to comment on three…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 March 2025 (UPC_CoA_170/2025, APL_9192/2025), Judge-rapporteur Emmanuel Gougé of the Court of Appeal rejected the request filed on 27 March 2025 by ILME GmbH and Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 March 2025 (UPC_CoA_170/2025, APL_9192/2025), Judge-rapporteur Gougé of the Court of Appeal granted PHOENIX CONTACT, respondent to the appeal brought by ILME GmbH Elektronische Handelsgesellschaft and Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2025, the Court of Appeal refuses Amazon leave to file, five days before the oral hearing, a further written statement commenting on Nokia’s statement of response.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_425/2024, App_54919/2024), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered JingAo Solar, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 787 541, to provide by 30 April 2025 security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2023, ACT_597323/2023, CC_20972/2024 and CC_21542/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Schumacher) allowed the defendants to F.
Read the analysisBy order of 13 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_12267/2025), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ACT_23636/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, W.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2025, issued in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_654/2024, UPC_CoA_700/2024 and UPC_CoA_1/2025 between 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College and Vizgen (EP 4108782, Hamburg Local Division), the Court of Appeal grants the applications for reimbursement of…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_115/2024 and UPC_CFI_377/2024, ACT_13359/2024, CC_39587/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas) refused Hartmann Packaging (formerly Brødrene Hartmann), claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 755 901, and the defendants Omni-Pac Ekco and Omni-Pac…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_604/2024, ACT_57037/2024, ORD_7507/2025, published under Applications App_5729/2025 and App_5962/2025), the Milan Central Division (Judges Postiglione, presiding, Knijff, rapporteur, and Weber) allowed SharkNinja Italy to withdraw its revocation action against Dyson Technology's EP 2 043 492, following…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 26 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_11/2024, ACT_2097/2024, CC_26515/2024, CC_32539/2024, App_8530/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) refused Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, defendant to the infringement action brought by Grundfos Holding on EP 2 778 423,…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, ACT_39091/2024, ORD_6886/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) dismissed the application for security for costs filed by GISELA MAYER, defendant to the infringement action brought by N.J DIFFUSION on EP 2 404…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 February 2025 following the interim conference of 21 February (UPC_CFI_73/2024 and UPC_CFI_408/2024, ACT_9206/2024, ORD_9117/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann) set up the oral hearing of 29 April 2025 in the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, App_15954/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 337,431.50 the costs that 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 20 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_590953/2023, App_2588/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) ordered the Registry to repay to 10x Genomics the EUR 2,000,000 security deposited for enforcement of the provisional measures granted on 30…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 February 2025 in cases UPC_CoA_218/2024, UPC_CoA_220/2024 and UPC_CoA_222/2024, Rian Kalden, presiding judge of panel 2 of the Court of Appeal and judge rapporteur, ordered the full return of the security for costs deposited by Network System Technologies…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) extended to 3 March 2025 the time limits for the rejoinder, the reply to the defence to the counterclaim for revocation and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 February 2025 (ORD_59528/2024, UPC_CFI_198/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel presided over by François Thomas, Maximilian Haedicke as judge rapporteur) dismissed the application by AYLO PREMIUM LTD, claimant in the revocation action against EP 3 822 805 B1,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023), the Munich Local Division, on the application of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, rectified under Rule 353 several passages of its decision of 15 November 2024 in the action brought by…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 February 2025 (ORD_65815/2024, UPC_CFI_380/2024), Andrea Postiglione, judge rapporteur in the Milan Central Division, dismissed without examining the substance EOFLOW Co., Ltd.'s application for its costs in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Insulet Corporation on EP 4…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_214/2023, ORD_6926/2025), the Helsinki Local Division granted AIM Sport Development leave to amend its infringement action on EP 3 295 663 against the TGI Sport companies (formerly Supponor), after the Court of Appeal had referred…
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