Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 23 August 2023)

Date	23 August 2023
Court	CFI
Division	Munich (DE) Local Division
Type of action	Infringement Action
Case number(s)	UPC_CFI_15/2023
Registry reference	ORD_562614/2023 · UPC_CFI15/2023
Parties	Edwards Lifesciences Corporation v. Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.

Summary pending review. Official UPC registry metadata imported on 24 September 2026.

Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry

Case timeline

1 August 2023 : Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 1 August 2023) App_557291/2023 · UPC_CFI_15/2023
10 August 2023 : Meril v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 10 August 2023) ORD_557466/2023 · UPC_CFI_15/2023
29 September 2023 : Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 29 September 2023) ORD_576853/2023 · UPC_CFI_15/2023

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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

UPC_CFI_15/2023 official number

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Parties

claimantEdwards Lifesciences Corporation41 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantMeril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.2 decisions in the corpus Follow this party

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Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals

1 August 2023 Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 1 August 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_15/2023
10 August 2023 Meril v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 10 August 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_15/2023
Le juge rapporteur proroge au 4 septembre 2023 le délai d'exception préliminaire de Meril GmbH, à titre exceptionnel et avec l'accord d'Edwards, congés et charge de travail n'étant pas des motifs suffisants.
23 August 2023 Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 23 August 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_15/2023
29 September 2023 Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 29 September 2023) Infringement Action · UPC_CFI_15/2023
Le juge rapporteur joint l'exception préliminaire au fond, refuse en l'état le sursis, rejette la demande de garantie des frais visant une demanderesse américaine et demande l'adjonction d'un juge technicien.
5 May 2025 Meril Life Sciences v SWAT Medical (CoA, 5 May 2025) Decision By Default · appeal, first-instance number cited in the decision
La cour d’appel annule l’ordonnance d’accès et rejette la demande : un membre du public non représenté ne peut obtenir l’accès de la règle 262.1(b), et aucun frais n’est alloué dans cette procédure.

What the record states

Nature of the act: Infringement Action
Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary): Le juge rapporteur proroge au 2 novembre 2023 le délai de défense de Meril GmbH, à titre exceptionnel et avec l'accord d'Edwards, l'alignement des délais n'étant pas en soi un motif de prorogation.
Appeal: An appeal is documented in the corpus (see above).
Instance: First-instance decision, whether it has become final is not recorded.

Patents mentioned

EP 3 646 825 mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent

Related decisions cited in the analyses

Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 29 September 2023) cited in this record
Meril v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 10 August 2023) cited in this record
Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 1 August 2023) cited in this record
Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 29 August 2023) cites this decision

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Patents and standards

Publication	Role in the dispute	Family	Standard and declaration	Pool	Sources
`EP 3 646 825` A system comprising a prosthetic valve and a delivery catheter recorded proprietor: Edwards Lifesciences Corp	Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 32 other decision(s): Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 15 November 2024) · Meril Italy v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 19 July 2024) · Meril v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 19 July 2024) · Meril Italy v Edwards Lifesciences (CoA, 25 November 2025) · Edwards Lifesciences v Sintec (CFI, 5 September 2025) · Meril Italy v SWAT Medical (CoA, 5 May 2025) · Meril v SWAT Medical (CoA, 5 May 2025) · Meril Life Sciences v SWAT Medical (CoA, 5 May 2025)	not recorded	not recorded	not recorded	Espacenet · 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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