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Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 4 October 2023)

Date4 October 2023
CourtCFI
DivisionHamburg (DE) Local Division
Type of actionInfringement Action
Case number(s)UPC_CFI_54/2023
Registry referenceORD_577763/2023 · UPC_CFI_54/2023
PartiesAvago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited v. Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg SE/Tesla Germany GmbH

Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry

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Summary

By order of 4 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, ACT_463258/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, on a Rule 262A RoP application by Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg in the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales on EP 1612910, provisionally restricted access to the confidential versions of the statement of defence and Exhibits B2 and B4 to the claimant’s representative alone, who is bound to confidentiality even towards his own client, until a final order is made.

Question

May the court provisionally restrict access to confidential information to the opposing party’s representative alone, before hearing that party as Rule 262A.4 RoP requires?

Decision

Art. 9(1) and (2)(a) of Directive (EU) 2016/943, implemented by Rule 262A RoP, allows access to documents containing alleged trade secrets to be limited to a small number of persons. The duty to hear the other party applies only to the final order: in the meantime, access may be narrowed further to the representative alone, since the redacted versions allow the application to be discussed with the claimant. The claimant has two weeks to comment and to name up to three employees to be given access to the confidential versions. The defendants may reply within ten days. Without deciding the point, the judge noted that the product-specific design, chip purchase prices and sales forecasts are probably trade secrets, and that the treatment of Exhibit B4, already disclosed to the claimant, depends on the circumstances of that disclosure.

Key points for practice

Provisions applied

Agreement on a Unified Patent Court
Art. 24(1)(a)
Rules of Procedure
Rules 262A.1, 262A.4, 331.1, 334 and 335
Other provisions
Directive (EU) 2016/943 on the protection of trade secrets, Arts 2(1) and 9(1) and (2)(a)

Prepared by Dhenne Avocats from the official decision, consulted on 10 October 2026. The database is updated every week, on Friday. Only the official text is authoritative.


Decisions in the same proceedings

Going further

Lexicon: Patent infringement action.

Publications by Matthieu Dhenne: Pleading the Long Arm: What a UPC Statement of Claim Must Carry Beyond Jurisdiction (Kluwer Patent Blog).

Source and translations

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Unified Patent Court registry link recorded in the record
Original language
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Translation available
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Proceedings

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Parties

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Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals

  1. 22 August 2023 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 22 August 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023

    Le juge rapporteur rejette la demande de prorogation du délai de défense, la coordination avec des fournisseurs non européens et les congés n'étant pas des motifs suffisants.

  2. 4 October 2023 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 4 October 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023
  3. 3 November 2023 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 3 November 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023

    La mise en œuvre technique du mode de réalisation litigieux et les prix d'achat des composants sont protégés comme secrets d'affaires, l'accès étant réservé aux avocats et à trois personnes désignées. La protection est refusée pour une lettre déjà communiquée sans réserve et pour des prévisions issues de données publiq…

  4. 28 November 2023 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 28 November 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023

    Le délai de réplique court du 8 novembre 2023, date de clôture de la procédure de confidentialité sur le mémoire en défense. Les défenderesses sont invitées à se prononcer sur la prorogation du délai de réponse à la demande reconventionnelle.

  5. 5 December 2023 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 5 December 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023

    Le délai de réponse à la demande reconventionnelle en nullité court, comme le délai de réplique, du 8 novembre 2023, date de clôture de la procédure de confidentialité sur le mémoire en défense.

  6. 26 August 2024 Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 26 August 2024) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_54/2023

    L’action en contrefaçon est rejetée, Avago n’établissant pas que Tesla reproduit la caractéristique d’arbitrage de la revendication 1 maintenue, la demande reconventionnelle est partiellement accueillie : le brevet est annulé au-delà de la revendication 1 dans la version de la requête subsidiaire 1, la revendication 3 …

What the record states

Nature of the act
Infringement Action
Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary)
Le juge rapporteur réserve provisoirement l'accès aux versions confidentielles du mémoire en défense et de deux pièces au seul représentant de la demanderesse, jusqu'à l'ordonnance définitive de confidentialité.
Appeal
No appeal documented in the corpus, this does not mean that no appeal was lodged.
Instance
First-instance decision, whether it has become final is not recorded.

Patents mentioned

Related decisions cited in the analyses

Scope: Dhenne Avocats corpus. Registry-based links are marked “official number”; links derived from the analyses are marked as such. An erroneous link can be withdrawn without deleting any record.

Patents and standards

PublicationRole in the disputeFamilyStandard and declarationPoolSources
EP 1 612 910
On-board power supply monitor and power control system
recorded proprietor: Broadcom Corp		Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified)
Also mentioned in 7 other decision(s): Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CoA, 15 Januar · Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 26 August · Tesla Germany v Avago Technologies International Sales (CFI, 2 April 2 · Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 5 Decembe · Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 28 Novemb · Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 3 Novembe · Avago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 22 August		not recordednot recordednot recordedEspacenet · European Patent Register
existence and title of the publication checked on 30 October 2026 (Google Patents, Espacenet and Register links are not checked automatically)
mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis
The statuses “asserted in litigation”, “declared essential”, “listed by a pool” and “essentiality examined by a court” are distinct and may coexist. Validity, infringement and technical essentiality are different questions. Scope: patents cited in the decisions of the Dhenne Avocats corpus, with no essentiality score or prediction.

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