bioMérieux v Labrador Diagnostics (CFI, 18 July 2025)
| Date | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Court | CFI |
| Division | Milan (IT) Central Division- Section |
| Type of action | Counterclaim for revocation |
| Registry reference | CC_54050/2024 · ORD_69409/2024 |
| Parties | bioMérieux Deutschland GmbH, bioMérieux Italia S.p.A., bioMérieux SA, bioMérieux Austria GmbH, bioMérieux Benelux BV, bioMérieux Portugal, … |
Summary pending review. Official UPC registry metadata imported on 24 September 2026.
Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry
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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
No case number recorded in this record.
Parties
- claimantbioMérieux Deutschland GmbH, bioMérieux Italia S.p.A., bioMérieux SA, bioMérieux Austria GmbH, bioMérieux Benelux BV, bioMérieux PortugalFollow this party
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Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals
No other decision in the corpus bears the same case number, and no appeal is documented in the corpus to date.
What the record states
- Nature of the act
- Counterclaim for revocation
- Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary)
- Le panel invite bioMérieux à réduire ses moyens de nullité, retient les requêtes subsidiaires 1 à 3 comme point de départ et organise l'audience, avec des délais au 21 juillet et au 10 septembre 2025.
- 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
EP 3 756 767mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent
Related decisions cited in the analyses
- bioMérieux UK v Labrador Diagnostics (CFI, 23 October 2025) cited in this record
- bioMérieux UK v Labrador Diagnostics (CFI, 18 July 2025) cites this decision
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Patents and standards
| Publication | Role in the dispute | Family | Standard and declaration | Pool | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EP 3 756 767 | Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 5 other decision(s): bioMérieux UK v Labrador Diagnostics (CoA, 17 February 2026) · Labrador Diagnostics v bioMérieux (CFI, 28 January 2026) · bioMérieux UK v Labrador Diagnostics (CFI, 23 October 2025) · Labrador Diagnostics v bioMérieux (CFI, 26 September 2025) · Labrador Diagnostics v bioMérieux (CFI, 23 April 2025) | not recorded | not recorded | not recorded | Espacenet links not checked 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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