Amazon.com v Nokia (CoA, 20 January 2025)
| Date | 20 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Court | CoA |
| Division | Luxembourg (LU) |
| Type of action | Application RoP262A |
| Registry reference | App_68644/2024 · ORD_68818/2024 |
| Parties | Amazon.com, Inc., Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l. v. Nokia Technologies Oy |
Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry
Dhenne Avocats represents claimants and defendants in European patent disputes before the Unified Patent Court, including the Paris divisions.
Dhenne Avocats · 19 October 2026
Our analysis
Summary
Confidentiality orders issued at first instance and not challenged on appeal continue to have effect during the appeal proceedings, including after the close of the proceedings (paras. 7 to 9). A request for additional protection must specifically identify the material it covers: the applicants themselves acknowledged that the information at issue was probably already covered by the existing orders, without identifying what would have justified additional protection (paras. 10 and 11). The requests are rejected.
Why it matters
The decision settles the often overlooked question of whether confidentiality orders survive beyond the proceedings, and recalls the requirement that requests be precise. It complements the line opened by Daedalus Prime v Xiaomi on 12 February 2025 on access to highly confidential information.
Practical point
Do not ask again on appeal for what is already covered at first instance. If additional protection is needed, it must target identified documents.
Summary prepared by Dhenne Avocats. Only the official text of the decision is authoritative.
Going further
Lexicon: UPC Court of Appeal, Standard essential patent (SEP), FRAND offer and counter-offer, Injunctions and standard essential patents.
Dhenne Avocats blog: UPC Appeals: What the Numbers Show, FRAND at the UPC: What the Court Has Decided, What Remains Open.
Publications by Matthieu Dhenne: Munich’s FRAND Guidelines: A Compass Drawn Too Finely, Tesla v. InterDigital and the FRAND Undertaking Inside the Pool (Kluwer Patent Blog).
Further reading: M. Dhenne, “Calculation of FRAND Royalties: An Overview of Practices Around the World”, European Intellectual Property Review 2019, vol. 41, no. 12, p. 754. M. Dhenne, “Conversant v LG: What about FRAND in France?”, European Intellectual Property Review 2019, vol. 41, no. 9, p. 585.
Source and translations
- Official source
- Unified Patent Court registry link recorded in the record
- Original language
- not recorded
- Translation available
- no translation recorded the firm’s French record is a summary, not a translation
- Date checked
- not recorded
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Proceedings, related decisions, appeals, parties and patents as recorded in the registry and in the Dhenne Avocats corpus. Each link states its source.
Proceedings
Parties
- claimantAmazon.com, Inc.10 decisions in the corpusFollow this party
- defendantNokia Technologies Oy12 decisions in the corpusFollow this party
- claimantAmazon Europe Core S.à r.l3 decisions in the corpusFollow this party
Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals
What the record states
- Nature of the act
- Application RoP262A
- Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary)
- Les ordonnances de protection du secret rendues en première instance et non contestées en appel continuent de produire effet pendant l'instance d'appel, y compris après la clôture de la procédure (§ 7 à 9). Une demande de protection supplémentaire doit désigner concrètement les éléments qu'elle vise : les demanderesses reconnaissaient elles-mêmes que les informations litigieuses étaient vraisemblablement déjà couvertes par les ordonnances existantes, sans identifier ce qui aurait justifié une protection additionnelle (§ 10 et 11). Les demandes sont rejetées.
- Appeal
- Decision of the Court of Appeal.
- Instance
- Court of Appeal decision.
Related decisions cited in the analyses
- Promosome v BioNTech (CFI, 10 March 2025) cites this decision
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