Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, 28 November 2024)

Date	28 November 2024
Court	CFI
Division	Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division
Type of action	Application RoP262A
Registry reference	App_60286/2024 · ORD_60941/2024
Parties	Magna International France SARL, Magna PT B.V. & Co. KG, Magna PT s.r.o. v. Valeo Electrification

Official decision (PDF) · UPC registry entry

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Dhenne Avocats · 10 October 2026

Our analysis

Summary

By order of 28 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_460/2024, ACT_44736/2024, App_60286/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas), in Valeo Electrification’s infringement action on EP 3 320 604 B1 against Magna PT B.V. & Co. KG, Magna PT s.r.o. and Magna International France, classified passages of the statement of defence of 8 November 2024 and several exhibits as confidential and restricted access on Valeo’s side to a group of named persons.

Question

Which persons may access the unredacted statement of defence, and may that group be enlarged in light of the parallel proceedings?

Decision

The information is confidential within the meaning of Art. 58 UPCA and Rule 262.2 RoP. In line with the orders made in the provisional measures proceedings, access is limited to the named representatives and their teams, three Valeo executives and two outside attorneys. One further member is added to the claimant’s team in view of the parallel proceedings, with no other extension. The information may not be used outside the proceedings, any culpable breach may lead to a penalty payment, and the representatives are answerable for their teams’ compliance.

Key points for practice

Practical point: where parallel proceedings concern the same patent, the division aligns the confidentiality club with the one already set in the provisional proceedings and allows only targeted, justified adjustments.

Provisions applied

Agreement on a Unified Patent Court: Art. 58
Rules of Procedure: Rules 262.2 and 262A
Case law cited: Valeo Electrification v Magna, Düsseldorf Local Division, 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, order in the provisional measures proceedings)

Related decisions

Valeo Electrification v Magna, 21 August 2024, earlier order in the provisional measures proceedings.

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.

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

No case number recorded in this record.

Parties

defendantValeo Electrification18 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
claimantMagna International France SARLnormalised name: Magna International France, SARL12 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
claimantMagna PT s.r.o12 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
claimantMagna PT B.V. & Co. KG12 decisions in the corpus Follow 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

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): Les passages visés du mémoire en défense et plusieurs pièces sont confidentiels. L'accès côté Valeo est réservé à un cercle nominatif, élargi d'un seul membre au regard des procédures parallèles.
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 3 320 604 mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent

Related decisions cited in the analyses

Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, 21 August 2024) cited in this record

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Patents and standards

Publication	Role in the dispute	Family	Standard and declaration	Pool	Sources
`EP 3 320 604`	Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 5 other decision(s): Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, ORD_56534/2024, 31 October 2024 · Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CoA, ORD_68770/2024, 13 January 2025 · Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, ORD_68629/2024, 10 January 2025 · Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, ORD_60264/2024, 20 November 202 · Valeo Electrification v Magna PT (CFI, 2 September 2024)	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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