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By order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, ACT_11910/2024 and CC_40010/2024), Judge Thomas, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, found Ona Patents' account of its title to EP 2 263 098 B1, asserted against five Apple companies,…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025, given in both proceedings UPC_CFI_587/2025 and UPC_CFI_624/2025 (ACT_30994/2025 and ACT_32414/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the applications by A.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 12 August 2025, for both parties, the time limit for comments on a third party's (Taylor Wessing) request for access under Rule 262.1(b)…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_382/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division ruled on the costs claimed by Novartis from ZENTIVA K.S. and ZENTIVA PORTUGAL following the dismissal, on 21 March 2025, of their application to intervene in an…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2023, App_30331/2025), the Paris Central Division (Judges Zhilova, Haedicke, judge-rapporteur, and Matter, technically qualified judge) allowed Toyota Motor Europe to withdraw its revocation action against Neo Wireless (EP 3 876 490) and closed the proceedings,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_9/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Judges Johansson, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Härmand, Zana and Vandeberg, technically qualified judge) largely upheld the infringement action brought by TEXPORT, as exclusive licensee, against Sioen NV under claims 1 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_213/2025, App_33426/2025), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division panel, acting as judge-rapporteur, attached a penalty payment of up to EUR 30,000 per day to the information obligation imposed on 10 July 2025 on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_208/2024 and UPC_CFI_504/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the request for access to the file made by Renault SAS, a third party which the proprietor had accused of infringement out of court,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom, judge-rapporteur, Agergaard and Hedberg, technically qualified judge), with the defendant's consent, allowed N.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_26/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Headwater Research’s infringement action against four Samsung companies, directed at the “Data Saver” function of devices running Android 7 or later, and revoked EP 3 110 069 to the…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025 and UPC_CFI_401/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set the timetable in the infringement action brought by the Jinko companies against LONGi Solar Technologie and other defendants (EP 4 372…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_761/2024, App_24515/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed Oerlikon Textile's application under Rule 353 RoP to rectify the costs decision of 9 May 2025 against Bhagat Textile Engineers (EP 2 145 848).
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the parties' joint request (Rule 295(d) RoP), stayed Syngenta's infringement action against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro Europe (EP 2 152 073) and the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_79/2025, App_31764/2025), the Mannheim Local Division (Judges Tochtermann, presiding, Böttcher, judge-rapporteur, and Rinkinen) dismissed the application by Discord Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_492/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, granted the request of the defendants Beijing Roborock Technology, Roborock Germany and Roborock International, sued for infringement of EP 3 030 943 by PAPST…
Read the analysisBy decision of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_239/2024), the Paris Central Division (Presiding Judge Catallozzi as judge-rapporteur, Judge Zhilova and technically qualified Judge Elmeros) dismissed a revocation action brought by an anonymised claimant against Essetre Holding's EP 2 875 923 B1, which concerns…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_203/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Thom as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Rinkinen) permitted DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US to withdraw its application for provisional measures of 7 March 2025 against Greenchemicals, based on…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thom, for Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Schumacher as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Agergaard) decided to hear both TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik's infringement action against IPG Laser on EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_131/2025), Judge Granata, judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, ordered the defendant, an individual whose name is redacted, to pay OrthoApnea and VIVISOL B EUR 41,656.64 for the first-instance costs of the infringement action on EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), Judge Tochtermann, judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected Centripetal's request for a penalty payment against Palo Alto Networks and for an order requiring it to report any deletion or change of technical documentation, following…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_850/2024), Judge Böttcher, judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, confirmed his order of 20 June 2025 on the value in dispute in ZTE's infringement action against Samsung Electronics and five European subsidiaries on EP 3 905…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_300/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal, Judge Grabinski, rejected the petition of a European patent attorney, whose name is redacted, against the Registrar's decision of 18 March 2025 refusing his entry on the list…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_381/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, ruled on the request of Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon, in proceedings against RiVOLUTiON on EP 2 515 768, to be assisted at their…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_285/2025), the Court of Appeal (Presiding Judge Grabinski, Judge Gougé as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Germano) permitted Hanshow Germany to withdraw its appeal, limited to costs, against the Paris Central Division's decision of 27 January 2025.
Read the analysisBy an order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_521/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal rejected a petition by a European patent attorney, whose name is redacted, against the Registrar's decision of 12 May 2025 refusing his entry on the list of…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_579/2025), Judge Gougé, judge-rapporteur at the Court of Appeal, granted OTEC Präzisionsfinish two weeks to reply to a new experiment filed by STEROS GPA Innovative with its statement of response, in the appeal against the provisional…
Read the analysisBy an order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_347/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal rejected as unfounded a petition by an applicant, whose name is redacted, against the Registrar's decision of 20 March 2025 refusing his entry on the list of…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_512/2024 and UPC_CFI_794/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thom, Schumacher as judge-rapporteur, and Mlakar) permitted, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Truma Gerätetechnik's infringement action against CAN Srl Airxcel Europe (EP 1 788 320 B1) and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_24/2025 and UPC_CoA_23/2025), the Court of Appeal (Presiding Judge Grabinski, Judge Gougé as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Germano) granted the reciprocal withdrawals of Hewlett-Packard Development Company and LAMA France, which had each appealed the Paris Local Division's…
Read the analysisBy an order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_614/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal rejected a petition by a European patent attorney, whose name is redacted, against the Registrar's decision of 2 June 2025 refusing his entry on the list of…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_526/2025), the Court of Appeal (Presiding Judge Kalden, Judge Rombach as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Simonsson) permitted Visibly, with Easee's consent, to withdraw its appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 30 May 2025 on security…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2025), Judge Schumacher, judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, extended to 15 September 2025 the time limits for the reply and the defence to the counterclaim for revocation of QIAGEN Sciences, which is suing bioMérieux and…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2025, App_23201/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann, Judge Pichlmaier as judge rapporteur, and Judge Schober) dismissed ALD Vacuum Technologies' application to revoke the order for preservation of evidence and inspection granted to Nanoval on…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_597/2024), given both on EOFLOW’s revocation action and on Insulet’s counterclaim for infringement, the Milan Central Division dismissed by default the revocation action against unitary patent EP 4 201 327, EOFLOW having refused to provide…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge-rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Lopes, and technically qualified Judge Fulconis) joined TIRU's infringement actions against MAGUIN and against VALINEA ENERGIE, based on EP 3 178 578 (waste…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_845/2024), the Court of Appeal allowed Koninklijke Philips to withdraw the application for a cost decision against Belkin that it had lodged with the Court of Appeal by mistake on 2 July 2025, and declared the…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_362/2025, ORD_33183/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Kupecz) set the protection regime for confidential information produced by the patentee in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2025), the full panel of the Paris Local Division set the regime protecting the confidential information produced by Sun Patent Trust in its infringement action against three Vivo companies (EP 3 852 468).
Read the analysisBy order of 21 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_79/2025 and UPC_CFI_605/2025, ORD_33008/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) rejected Malikie Innovations' request to align on 10 September 2025 its time periods for the defence to Discord's counterclaim for revocation and for an application…
Read the analysisBy decision of 18 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_8/2023, ORD_32871/2025), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division confirmed the settlement reached on 10 July 2025 between Edwards Lifesciences and Meril Lifesciences, Meril GmbH, SMIS International and Sormedica, ending the infringement action under EP 2 628 464 and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 21 July 2025, the Paris Central Division dismisses the revocation action brought by Sibio Technology against Abbott Diabetes Care’s European patent EP 3 831 283 B1, which concerns an on-body glucose monitoring device, and maintains the patent as granted.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 21 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_380/2023), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division upheld Edwards Lifesciences’ infringement action on EP 3 769 722 (a delivery system for a transcatheter heart valve) against Meril Life Sciences, Meril Germany and four distributors concerning the Navigator…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 18 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies in respect of the UK part of EP 3 476 616, which concerns a lithographic printing plate precursor.
Read the analysisBy order of 17 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, App_33041/2025, ORD_33180/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division), in agreement with the presiding judge, refused to postpone the hearing of 1 September 2025 in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Faro Technologies against PMT…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_351/2025, APP_30013/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the application of POSITEC Germany, defendant in Husqvarna's infringement action under EP 3 978…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_484/2025, ORD_27316/2025), the judge rapporteur Haedicke (Paris Central Division) ruled on the confidentiality of the cost figures contained in the application for a cost decision (Rule 151 RoP) filed by Kinexon after its revocation action against…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_750/2024, ORD_32720/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended to 11 August 2025, over Fingon's objection, the time periods for Samsung Electronics' rejoinder in the infringement action under EP 2 839 403 and its reply…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024 and UPC_CFI_667/2024), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, summoned Lenovo (Singapore) and the ASUSTek companies to a further interim hearing on FRAND, set for 21 July 2025, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_771/2024), the Milan Local Division confirmed the settlement concluded on 25 February 2025 between Pirelli Tyre and Kingtyre Deutschland in the action for infringement of EP 2 519 412, the action continuing against Tianjin Kingtyre Group.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_327/2025, APL_16749/2025), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal brought by MAGUIN, the manufacturer of an incineration kiln, against the Paris Local Division's order of 24 March 2025 refusing to set aside evidence preservation and inspection…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, App_29243/2025), the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) rejected the requests for protection of confidential information filed by the BioNTech and Pfizer companies, defendants to the infringement action under EP 2 401 365 brought by…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (PC-CoA-002/2025), the Court of Appeal dismissed VALINEA Energie's appeal against the Paris Local Division's order of 24 March 2025 refusing to set aside evidence preservation and inspection measures granted to TIRU without hearing the defendant, on…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2025, App_27426/2025), the judge rapporteur Schumacher (Düsseldorf Local Division) set the protection regime for confidential information produced by bioMérieux S.A.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_770/2024, App_26266/2025), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, Zana and Knijff) dismissed Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber's request for re-establishment of rights, made in order to challenge out of time the ex parte seizure of tyres at the…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 July 2025 following the interim conference of 11 July (UPC_CFI_836/2024), the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) prepared the oral hearing in the revocation action against EP 4 019 790 brought by BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners against Raimund Beck…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), made without hearing the defendant after referral back by the Court of Appeal, Judge Tochtermann (Mannheim Local Division) granted Centripetal a saisie targeting Palo Alto Networks' network security solution at its Munich branch office.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 July 2025, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_173/2024 and UPC_CFI_424/2024, the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Nera Innovations’ infringement action against four Xiaomi group companies and partially revoked EP 2 642 632 (wireless power receiver), maintaining it in…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_581/2025, App_30685/2025), the judge rapporteur Gougé (Court of Appeal) rejected OTEC Präzisionsfinish's application for suspensive effect against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 16 June 2025, which had provisionally restrained it, in 18 states, from infringing…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_292/2025, App_22463/2025), Florence Butin, President of the Court of First Instance, changed the language of InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action against eleven Disney companies before the Mannheim Local Division from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_445/2025), Judge Tochtermann (Mannheim Local Division) dealt with the refusal by the Disney companies' representatives to acknowledge receipt of the anti-anti-suit injunction (AASI) granted on 27 May 2025 to InterDigital VC Holdings and InterDigital CE Patent…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_431/2025, APL_23095/2025), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, Blok and Gougé) reversed the Hamburg Local Division's refusal and ordered JingAo Solar, the Chinese claimant in the infringement action under EP 4 092 759, to provide the…
Read the analysisBy decision of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_355/2023 and UPC_CFI_186/2025), the judge rapporteur Thomas (Düsseldorf Local Division) fixed the costs FUJIFILM must reimburse to the Kodak companies after EP 3 594 009 was revoked in its entirety and the infringement action dismissed on…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2024), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) closed the interim procedure in Total Semiconductor's infringement action under EP 2 746 957 against three Texas Instruments companies and in the revocation counterclaim.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_430/2025, APL_23093/2025), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, Blok and Gougé) held inadmissible Chint New Energy Technology's appeal against the Munich Local Division judge rapporteur's order of 5 May 2025 requiring it to provide security for…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_178/2024 and UPC_CFI_432/2024), the judge rapporteur Perrotti (Milan Local Division) set the value of Progress Maschinen & Automation's infringement action against AWM and Schnell at EUR 2,000,000, and the same for the revocation counterclaim, the parties…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the standing judge of the Court of Appeal rejects Tiroler Rohre’s appeal against the Munich Local Division judge-rapporteur’s order of 10 February 2025, which had ordered it to reimburse EUR 84,033.76 in costs to SSAB Swedish…
Read the analysisBy decision of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CoA_175/2025 to UPC_CoA_178/2025), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, Blok and Gougé) permitted Advanced Bionics, with MED-EL's agreement, to withdraw its revocation action and its revocation counterclaim against EP 4 074 373, declared the proceedings closed…
Read the analysisBy decision of 3 July 2025, given in Dutch, the Court of Appeal (Grabinski, Blok, Gougé) allowed the withdrawal of the appeal against the Brussels Local Division's decision of 17 January 2025, which had dismissed the infringement actions on EP 2 331…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the Court of Appeal’s judge-rapporteur orders that 60% of the appeal court fees be reimbursed to Tandem Diabetes (UPC_CoA_120/2025). The appeal was directed at the Paris Central Division’s decision of 18 December 2024 dismissing the revocation…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) ordered Headwater Research, proprietor of EP 3 110 069, to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 to the three Motorola companies and EUR 100,000 to Flextronics International…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 3 July 2025, the judge rapporteur Zigann (Munich Local Division) dismissed for lack of legal interest Lenovo (Singapore)'s request to extend from 7 to 9 July 2025 its time to reply to the ASUSTek defendants' brief of 13…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the Court of Appeal rejects both Network System Technologies’ (NST) appeal and Qualcomm’s cross-appeal against the Munich Local Division’s order of 26 February 2025, given in three infringement actions concerning three patents (appeals UPC_CoA_221/2025 to 223/2025…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the application of Renault Retail Group Deutschland, Renault Deutschland and Renault S.A.S., defendants in the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales before the Munich Local…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on cross-applications for security for costs in Headwater Research's infringement action (EP 3 110 072) against three Motorola companies and Flextronics International Europe, all of which…
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