EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES v MERIL LIFE SCIENCES (CFI, 5 December 2025)

Date	5 December 2025
Court	CFI
Division	Nordic Baltic Regional Division
Type of action	Application RoP262A
Case number(s)	UPC_CFI_775/2025;UPC_CFI_776/2025;UPC_CFI_777/2025
Registry reference	UPC_CFI_775/2025 · UPC_CFI_776/2025 · UPC_CFI_777/2025
Parties	EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION v. MERIL LIFE SCIENCES PVT LIMITED, MERIL GMBH, SMIS INTERNATIONAL OÜ, SORMEDICA, UAB, INTERLUX, UAB, VAB-LOG…

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

Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry

Case timeline

12 May 2026 : 1 (CFI, UPC_CFI_777/2025, 12 May 2026) UPC_CFI_777/2025 · UPC_CFI_775/2025
12 May 2026 : Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 12 May 2026) UPC_CFI_775/2025

Dhenne Avocats represents claimants and defendants in European patent disputes before the Unified Patent Court, including the Paris divisions.

Contact the firm

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

Only the official text is authoritative. A machine translation is never presented as official, republishing a third-party document requires a verified basis in rights, and a link to the source is preferred.

Follow this case

Proceedings, related decisions, appeals, parties and patents as recorded in the registry and in the Dhenne Avocats corpus. Each link states its source.

Proceedings

UPC_CFI_775/2025 official number
UPC_CFI_776/2025 official number
UPC_CFI_777/2025 official number

Follow these proceedings

Parties

claimantEDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATIONnormalised name: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation41 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantMERIL GMBHnormalised name: Meril GmbH45 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantMERIL LIFE SCIENCES PVT LIMITED8 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantSMIS INTERNATIONAL OÜ7 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantSORMEDICA7 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantUAB7 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantINTERLUX5 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantVAB-LOGFollow this party

Exact name as it appears in the record, group affiliation only where sourced and dated.

Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals

5 December 2025 EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES v MERIL LIFE SCIENCES (CFI, 5 December 2025) Application RoP262A · UPC_CFI_777/2025, UPC_CFI_775/2025, UPC_CFI_776/2025
12 May 2026 1 (CFI, UPC_CFI_777/2025, 12 May 2026) Generic Order · UPC_CFI_777/2025, UPC_CFI_775/2025
12 May 2026 Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 12 May 2026) Generic Order · UPC_CFI_775/2025
Les désistements croisés des demandes de fixation des frais sont autorisés et les procédures closes. Les informations désignées par les parties sont déclarées confidentielles, avec accès restreint et obligation de non-divulgation durable.
12 May 2026 1 (CFI, UPC_CFI_776/2025, 12 May 2026) Generic Order · UPC_CFI_776/2025

What the record states

Nature of the act: Application RoP262A
Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary): Les procédures de fixation des frais sont suspendues jusqu'à la décision de la chambre de recours de l'OEB et l'accès aux demandes de frais non expurgées est provisoirement restreint.
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 3 769 722 mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent

Related decisions cited in the analyses

1 (CFI, UPC_CFI_777/2025, 12 May 2026) cited in this record
Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 12 May 2026) cited in this record
1 (CFI, UPC_CFI_776/2025, 12 May 2026) cited in this record
STRABAG Infrastructure & Safety Solutions v SWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme (CoA, 1 August 2025) cited in this record

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

Publication	Role in the dispute	Family	Standard and declaration	Pool	Sources
`EP 3 769 722` Low profile delivery system for transcatheter heart valve recorded proprietor: Edwards Lifesciences Corp	Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 9 other decision(s): Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 21 July 2025) · Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 12 May 2026) · Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 2 September 2025) · Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 21 January 2025) · Meril Life Sciences v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 11 December 2024) · EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES v MERIL LIFE SCIENCES (CFI, 10 December 2024) · Meril Life Sciences v Edwards Lifesciences (CoA, 21 November 2024) · Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, ORD_14940/2024, 20 Au	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.