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By an order of 8 February 2025 (ACT_47298/2024, App_63904/2024, EP 3 780 758), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) rejected in its entirety the confidentiality application filed under Rule 262A by the defendants, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Ericsson GmbH.
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ACT_45469/2024), the Milan Local Division extended under Rule 9, to 27 February 2025, Dainese's time limit to reply to the statements of defence and to defend the revocation counterclaims concerning EP 4 072 364…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_163/2024, ORD_4336/2025, EP 3 155 936), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) declared inadmissible the sections of Hurom's latest pleading dealing with infringement and remedies, together with two exhibits, and then allowed,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024, EP 3 065 184 B1), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas, presiding and rapporteur) amended its confidentiality order of 23 December 2024 to add three individuals to the circle allowed to see…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023, EP 3 511 174), the presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, Judge Tochtermann, acting as judge-rapporteur, refused to treat as costs of the proceedings the simultaneous English to Japanese interpretation requested by FUJIFILM…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ORD_5020/2025, EP 2 793 430), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted the request of the three Disney group companies sued by Adeia Guides: their common time limit for the statement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3764/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) closed, without ruling on it, the application by Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences to stay the confidentiality proceedings on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3774/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) lifted all deadlines relating to Edwards Lifesciences' cost application and to the protection of the confidential information it contains.
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Meril's application for a partial stay of the cost proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences (EP 3 646 825) pending the Court of Appeal's decision on Meril's…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, granted the application by the defendants XSYS Germany, XSYS Prepress and XSYS Italia to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, EP 3 655 341), Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division held that publishing on the UPC website the decision by default of 9 January 2025, given on air up group's application for provisional…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 January 2025, made in the infringement action and counterclaim for revocation between Maxeon Solar and Aiko Energy Germany and seven other defendants (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024, EP 3 065 184), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, Camille Lignières, dismissed the request by N.J. DIFFUSION, proprietor of EP 2 404 516 and claimant in the infringement action against GISELA MAYER (UPC_CFI_363/2024), to hold the interim conference…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, dismissed the application by NVIDIA Corporation and NVIDIA GmbH to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language of grant, in the infringement…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 January 2025, the Hamburg Local Division (presiding judge Sabine Klepsch, judge-rapporteur Stefan Schilling) referred to the Paris Central Division the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_436/2024) lodged in Daedalus Prime's infringement action against Xiaomi Communications and four other defendants, including…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 January 2025, the Milan Local Division (judge-rapporteur Alima Zana) extended to 27 February 2025 the time limit for Alpinestars, first defendant in Dainese's infringement action (UPC_CFI_472/2024, EP 4 072 364 and EP 3 498 117), to file its…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris Local Division, on cross-applications for costs by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and Lama France following the decision on the merits of 13 November 2024, refused to raise the ceiling on representation costs by 50%…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_412/2023), the Paris Central Division (panel 2, Judge Catallozzi as judge-rapporteur) dismissed ITCiCo Spain's application to set aside the decision by default of 16 September 2024 given in the revocation action between it and Bayerische…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (Judge Butin), after consulting the panel, granted the application of XPENG and sixteen other defendants to switch to English, the language in which EP 3290200 was…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_769/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal (Judge Rombach) dismissed A. Menarini Diagnostics' request to extend to 30 December 2024 the time limit for its statement of response, in Insulet's appeal against the Milan…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_189/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi) dismissed the application by Meril Italy, Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences for an order that SWAT Medical pay EUR 15,000 in costs for the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_322/2024), Judge Zigann, judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, stayed Dyson Technology's infringement action against SharkNinja Europe and SharkNinja Germany, based on EP 2 043 492, and the counterclaim, on Dyson's application…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_60558/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (Judge Zana) dismissed Insulet's application for a costs decision against Eoflow, whose application to intervene in support of A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_173/2024 and UPC_CFI_424/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) declined to rule during the written procedure on the admissibility of Nera Innovations' auxiliary requests to amend EP 2 642 632, and of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_100/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thom as judge-rapporteur, Judges Thomas and Kokke) ordered Ona Patents, claimant in an action for infringement of EP 2 263 098 against Google Ireland and Google Commerce, to provide…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_63208/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi presiding and acting as judge-rapporteur) rejected Microsoft's request to raise to at least EUR 500,000 the security for costs of EUR 300,000 already imposed on Suinno in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_99/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas as judge-rapporteur, Judges Thom and Kokke) ordered Ona Patents, alleged proprietor of EP 2 263 098 and claimant in an infringement action against five Apple companies, to provide…
Read the analysisBy an order of 24 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_244/2024 and UPC_CFI_609/2024), Judge Zigann, on behalf of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, extended to 27 December 2024 Snowpixie's time limits to file its reply in its action for infringement of EP 3…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_336/2024), Presiding Judge Thomas, as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, classified as confidential, in Maxeon Solar's action for infringement of EP 3 065 184, the revenue, profit and sales figures of PowerDeal and Coenergia…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2024, ORD_59988/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division (Judge Postiglione) ordered A. Menarini Diagnostics to pay Insulet EUR 1,764 for the costs of opposing its application to intervene, refused on 1 October 2024, in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ORD_66525/2024), the Paris Local Division, seized by LAMA FRANCE after its decision on the merits of 13 November 2024 in favour of HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (HPDC), held that it had no power to stay…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_390/2023, App_60589/2024), the Munich Local Division imposed a penalty payment of EUR 46,000 on Belkin International, Belkin GmbH and Belkin Limited, at the request of Koninklijke Philips, for late and incomplete compliance with the order…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ACT_551180/2023), the Munich Central Division rejected NanoString Technologies Europe Limited's request to release the EUR 300,000 security for costs it had provided in its action for revocation of EP 2 794 928 against President…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024), the Paris Central Division refused Microsoft Corporation leave to appeal the order of 26 November 2024 that had allowed Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy to amend its claim (EP 2 671…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CoA_520/2024, APL_51079/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the application by Hand Held Products, Inc., respondent in Scandit AG's appeal against the Munich Local Division's provisional measures order of 27 August 2024 (EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_509/2023, ACT_597615/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring air up group GmbH's application for provisional measures (EP 3 897 305) to the attention of Guangzhou Aiyun…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, ACT_597609/2023, App_64018/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division treated as good service the steps taken to serve air up group's application for provisional measures on Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, a Chinese company, where transmission…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_140/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered Curio Bioscience, the defendant in 10x Genomics' infringement action based on EP 2 697 391, to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour of the claimant.
Read the analysisBy procedural order dated 27 November 2024 in its heading (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_63173/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (A.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_437/2024, ACT_43382/2024, ORD_59602/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß), in GXD-Bio Corporation's infringement action on EP 3 346 403 against Myriad International GmbH and eight other defendants, ordered the claimant to provide security…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_62696/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières), in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Logistics B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_550/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (T. Pichlmaier), in Collomix's infringement action against Lidl Digital Deutschland, Lidl Dienstleistung and Delta-Sport Handelskontor, ordered the claimant to lodge with the Court a sample of the "PARKSIDE®…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, App_59991/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, rapporteur, Thom and Bessaud, and technically qualified judge Sanchini) dismissed the application for rectification filed by Magna PT B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_499/2023, App_60996/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division extended to 11 December 2024, over the objection of Abbott Laboratories and the other defendants, DexCom's time limits for its Rejoinder to the counterclaim for revocation of…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, App_59992/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the application for rectification filed by Magna PT B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_555/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo based on EP 2 579 551, replaced the designation "Nintendo of Europe AG" with "Nintendo of Europe SE", which had succeeded…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_15/2023, ACT_459987/2023), the Munich Local Division rejected the requests of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences, defendants to Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 3 646 825, for the Division to ask the European Commission about…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 November 2024 (UPC_CoA_520/2024, APL_51079/2024, App_57474/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal (E. Gougé), in Scandit's appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 27 August 2024 granting Hand Held Products provisional measures for indirect infringement of claims…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Ortovox's infringement action against Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH based on EP 3 466 498, joined with a counterclaim for revocation, refused Ortovox's…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, App_54506/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas) refused FUJIFILM, claimant in the infringement action on EP 3 594 009 against three Kodak companies, leave to file a further written pleading in reply…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 October 2024, the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_525/2024, App_55164/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), in Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 before the Hamburg Local Division against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_427/2024, App_52964/2024, ORD_53290/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Central Division (F. Butin), sitting alone, dismissed Qualcomm's application for reimbursement of court fees made after the closure of its action against an EPO decision concerning EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_297/2024, APL_32012/2024, App_55674/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding, I.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_46519/2024, ORD_47065/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) refused the application by DISH Technologies and Sling TV for the AYLO group companies and two other defendants to produce the source code…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (ORD_47058/2024, UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the application of DISH Technologies and Sling TV, which are suing several Aylo companies for infringement of EP 2 479 680, for the defendants operating…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023, App_44953/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2024, ACT_27358/2024, ORD_47273/2024), the Paris Central Division (F. Thomas, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_512/2024, ACT_50223/2024, App_54390/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Dr Thom) rejected CAN Srl Airxcel Europe's requests to extend to 30 October 2024 the time limit for a Preliminary Objection and to 30 December 2024…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_580849/2023, App_55249/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, presiding, Dr Thom, Kupecz) dismissed Aarke's request to adjourn the oral hearing in SodaStream Industries' infringement action on EP 1793917 pending the Court of Appeal's order on the…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_297/2024, APL_32012/2024, App_52471/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding, I.
Read the analysisBy order of 8 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, ORD_55287/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) rejected Edwards Lifesciences' request to align the time limit for its rejoinder to 25 October 2024 in the revocation action on EP 4 151…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024, ACT_7603/2024, ORD_45269/2024, App_40280/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 1, M. Zigann) ordered Headwater Research to provide, within three weeks, security for costs of EUR 100,000 by deposit into the UPC account, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_45914/2024, App_42517/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel 2, presided by P. Catallozzi) ordered Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 671 173, to provide security for Microsoft's…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_217/2024, UPC_CoA_219/2024 and UPC_CoA_221/2024), the Court of Appeal notified Network System Technologies that, should it fail to provide within three weeks the security for Audi’s costs ordered on 17 September 2024, the Court of First…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_218/2024, UPC_CoA_220/2024 and UPC_CoA_222/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding and rapporteur, I.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_220/2023, ACT_545619/2023, APP_31889/2024, ORD_39681/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division referred to the panel the request by Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_340/2024, ACT_36792/2024, App_52697/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed under Rule 295(d), from 25 September to 15 November 2024, the action brought by Innovative Sonic Corporation for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, App_52033/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann) rejected the application by Panasonic Holdings Corporation to have its own party expert heard as a witness at the oral hearing…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, App_45333/2024, ORD_45922/2024), the judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P.
Read the analysisBy decision of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_412/2023, ACT_585518/2023, ORD_51965/2024), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and judge-rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_88/2024, ACT_10800/2024, ORD_28786/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_5/2023, ACT_459762/2023, ORD_50820/2024), the presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Philips IP Ventures B.V.'s infringement action on EP 2 372 863 against Belkin and other defendants, postponed the oral…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 September 2024, made in the three joined appeals UPC_CoA_464/2024, UPC_CoA_457/2024 and UPC_CoA_458/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the requests of Meril Italy, Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences to expedite their appeals against the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023, App_49142/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Tochtermann) disregarded the rejoinder submissions of Xiaomi Technology Germany and the other defendants concerning two third-party licences, in the action brought by Panasonic Holdings…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, ACT_39183/2024, App_48679/2024), the Deputy President of the Court of First Instance (C. Lignieres), on behalf of the President, dismissed the Magna companies' application for review of the allocation of the technically qualified judge in the…
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