Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecomm v Panasonic (CFI, 6 July 2024)

Date	6 July 2024
Court	CFI
Division	Munich (DE) Local Division
Type of action	Application RoP262A
Registry reference	App_15611/2024 · ORD_18276/2024
Parties	Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd., OROPE Germany GmbH v. Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry

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Dhenne Avocats · 10 October 2026

Our analysis

Summary

By an order of 6 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_221/2023, ACT_545620/2023, ORD_18276/2024, App_15611/2024), the judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Panasonic Holdings Corporation’s infringement action on EP 3 024 163 against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. and OROPE Germany GmbH, made final, with amendments, the provisional confidentiality order of 5 April 2024 covering the Reply and its FRAND annexes. The order follows the approach taken two days earlier in the parallel action against Xiaomi.

Question

Who may access the confidential passages of the Reply, and may the order include an obligation to return or destroy the information and a minimum penalty?

Decision

The need to keep the information, which concerns licensing negotiations and internal calculations, confidential was not disputed. At least one natural person must have access. Since the claimant had named three, four persons for the two defendants are considered appropriate. Access is extended to the representatives in the parallel proceedings against OPPO before the Mannheim and Munich Local Divisions. The obligation to return or destroy the information is removed, as it has no basis in the Rules of Procedure. The penalty is reworded to up to EUR 100,000 for each culpable breach, so that minor breaches can attract lower amounts. The Registry is to give the defendants’ representatives access to the unredacted Reply.

Key points for practice

Practical point: the circle of authorised persons is calibrated by reference to the number named by the other side, and access may extend to representatives in parallel proceedings before other divisions.

Provisions applied

Rules of Procedure: Rule 262A
Case law cited: Panasonic v Xiaomi, Munich Local Division, 4 July 2024

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Going further

Lexicon: Confidentiality club.

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

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Parties

claimantOROPE Germany GmbH23 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
claimantGuangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd.24 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantPanasonic Holdings Corporation47 decisions in the corpus Follow 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: Application RoP262A
Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary): L'ordonnance provisoire de confidentialité est confirmée avec modifications : accès de quatre personnes pour les défenderesses, pas d'obligation de destruction, astreinte plafonnée à 100 000 euros par violation fautive.
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 3 024 163 mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent

Related decisions cited in the analyses

Panasonic Holdings v Xiaomi (CFI, ORD_26378/2024, 4 July 2024) cited in this record

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Patents and standards

Publication	Role in the dispute	Family	Standard and declaration	Pool	Sources
`EP 3 024 163` Radio communication device and constellation control method recorded proprietor: Panasonic Corp	Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 9 other decision(s): Panasonic Holdings v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, OR · Panasonic Holdings v Xiaomi (CFI, 26 September 2024) · Panasonic Holdings v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, 2 · Panasonic Holdings v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, 10 · Panasonic Holdings v Xiaomi (CFI, ORD_26378/2024, 4 July 2024) · Panasonic Holdings v Xiaomi (CFI, ORD_18301/2024, 4 July 2024) · Panasonic Holdings v Xiaomi (CFI, ORD_39924/2024, 4 July 2024) · Panasonic v Xiaomi (CFI, 4 December 2023)	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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