Procedural Order

Decisions of the Unified Patent Court recorded under "Procedural Order" in UPC Litigation Watch, the case law database maintained by Dhenne Avocats.

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28 decisions recorded

Labrador Diagnostics v bioMérieux (CFI, 26 September 2025)

26 September 2025 CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

In an order of 26 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_315/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division summoned Labrador Diagnostics and the six bioMérieux defendants under Rule 108 to the oral hearing of the infringement action on EP 3 756 767, set for 27…

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Huawei Technologies v MediaTek (CFI, 16 September 2025)

16 September 2025 CFI / Mannheim (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By an order of 16 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025, App_33294/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division partly granted MediaTek Germany's request for production of documents (Rule 190) in Huawei's infringement action (EP 3 567 731).

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Centripetal v Palo Alto Networks (CFI, 25 July 2025)

25 July 2025 CFI / Mannheim (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), Judge Tochtermann, judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected Centripetal's request for a penalty payment against Palo Alto Networks and for an order requiring it to report any deletion or change of technical documentation, following…

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Centripetal v Palo Alto Networks (CFI, 11 July 2025)

11 July 2025 CFI / Mannheim (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 3 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), made without hearing the defendant after referral back by the Court of Appeal, Judge Tochtermann (Mannheim Local Division) granted Centripetal a saisie targeting Palo Alto Networks' network security solution at its Munich branch office.

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Promosome v BioNTech (CFI, 3 April 2025)

3 April 2025 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11610/2025 and ORD_11611/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division rejected the applications to produce evidence filed on 7 March 2025 by the five BioNTech companies and the four Pfizer companies, defendants to Promosome LLC's…

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Sumi Agro v Syngenta (CoA, 19 December 2024)

19 December 2024 CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

In an order of 19 December 2024 (UPC_CoA_523/2024), made in Sumi Agro’s appeal against the Munich Local Division’s order for provisional measures of 27 August 2024 (EP 2 152 073), the Court of Appeal ruled on the admissibility of new evidence under…

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Amycel v *** (CFI, 18 December 2024)

18 December 2024 CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By an order of 19 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_499/2024, ACT_48877/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division held that Amycel LLC's statement of claim (EP 1993350) had been validly served on a defendant based in Poland, whose name is redacted, by alternative means…

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Headwater Research v Samsung Electronics (CFI, 12 November 2024)

12 November 2024 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 12 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Headwater Research's infringement action against Samsung Electronics based on EP 2 391 947, ordered Qualcomm, a third party, to produce within seven days an electronic copy of…

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Winnow Solutions v Orbisk (CFI, 14 October 2024)

14 October 2024 CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_44108/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) partly granted the request of Winnow Solutions, proprietor of EP 3 198 245 on monitoring food waste, for Orbisk to produce evidence on its…

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SES-imagotag v Hanshow (CFI, 11 October 2024)

11 October 2024 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, App_3393/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 200,000 the first-instance costs that SES-imagotag must reimburse to the four Hanshow companies following the dismissal of its application for provisional measures.

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10x Genomics v Vizgen (CFI, 15 August 2024)

15 August 2024 CFI / Hamburg (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 15 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in the infringement action brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen on EP 4 108 782, accepted that an application for production…

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Panasonic Holdings v OROPE Germany (CFI, 16 May 2024)

16 May 2024 CFI / Mannheim (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 16 May 2024 (UPC_CFI_216/2023, App_4931/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected, at this stage, the applications for production of documents filed on 4 February 2024 by OROPE Germany and Guangdong OPPO, defendants to Panasonic's infringement action on…

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Panasonic v OROPE Germany (CFI, 3 May 2024)

3 May 2024 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By an order of 3 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_208/2023, ACT_545535/2023, App_2352/2024 and App_14378/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (T. Pichlmaier), in an infringement action on a patent essential to the 3G and 4G standards between Panasonic and OPPO (published in anonymised…

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10x Genomics v Curio Bioscience (CFI, 22 March 2024)

22 March 2024 CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By an order of 22 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_590953/2023, App_14943/2024), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, allowed Curio Bioscience Inc.'s patent attorney to plead in English, with simultaneous interpretation into German, at the hearing of 26 and…

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AIM Sport Vision v Supponor (CFI, ORD_567559/2023, 28 August 2023)

28 August 2023 CFI / Helsinki (FI) Local Division / Procedural Order Decision with commentary

By order of 28 August 2023, the judge-rapporteur of the Helsinki Local Division, in AIM Sport Vision v Supponor (EP 3 295 663), organised the next steps in the main action and the provisional measures proceedings after the defendants filed a preliminary…

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