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By order of 2 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_245/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the application by SWARCO FUTURIT, claimant in the action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, for Shenzhen Dianming, intervening in support of the defendant,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 2 July 2025, Judge Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge rapporteur (Mannheim Local Division), extended by two weeks, until 29 July 2025, Corning's time to file its reply to the statement of defence and defence to the counterclaim, including…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 July 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, Schumacher, Agergaard), having heard the parties and before the close of the written procedure, decided to hear both Quantificare's infringement action on EP 3 156 843 against the Canfield Scientific companies…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 July 2025, the Court of Appeal (Kalden, Rombach, Simonsson) stayed the cross-appeals of Easee and Visibly (UPC_CoA_542/2025 and UPC_CoA_526/2025) against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 30 May 2025, which had required Easee to provide EUR 75,000 security…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 June 2025, Judge Visser, presiding judge and judge rapporteur (Paris Central Division), granted Acer Computer access to the statement for revocation and its exhibits, the defence, the reply and the rejoinder in HP Printing and Computing Solutions' revocation…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division granted Acer Computer access to the application to amend the patent and its exhibits, the defence to that application and the reply, filed in HP Printing and…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, Schumacher, Kokke, Schober) dismissed the three applications for partial refund of court fees filed by F.
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division granted the firm Bardehle Pagenberg, as a member of the public, access to the statement for revocation, the defence, the reply and the rejoinder, with their exhibits,…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Zana, Pichlmaier, Wagner), on Zentiva's application for panel review under Rule 333, confirmed the judge rapporteur's case management order of 8 May 2025 in Sanofi's action on EP 2 493 466…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended until 14 July 2025 Palo Alto Networks' time for its rejoinder on infringement, its reply on the counterclaim for revocation and its defence to the application to amend…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) summoned BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners and Raimund Beck Nageltechnik to an interim conference by videoconference on 11 July 2025, in the revocation action against claims 1 to 4 and…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended until 14 August 2025 the time for the statements of defence of DJI GmbH and Solectric, defendants 3 and 4 in Irdeto's infringement action on EP 2 831…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2025, the Court of Appeal (Kalden, Rombach, Simonsson) granted suspensive effect to the appeal of Easee's managing director against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 30 May 2025 requiring EUR 75,000 security for costs in respect of…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Schilling (Hamburg Local Division) stayed for three months the whole of Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2025, the Court of Appeal (Kalden, Simonsson, Rombach, Faget, Papa) disposed of Ballinno's appeal in its provisional measures dispute with Kinexon and UEFA on EP 1 944 067 (UPC_CoA_328/2024).
Read the analysisBy decision by default of 8 July 2025, the Milan Central Division (Postiglione, Klein, Ledeboer) held that the “Bellota” tool marketed by the Greek company Spiridonakis Bros infringes claims 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 of EP 1 998 604,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 23 June 2025 (Rule 9), Judge Thomas, presiding judge and rapporteur (Düsseldorf Local Division), informed Aesculap and Shanghai International Holding Corporation (Europe), in the provisional measures proceedings on EP 2 892 442 (UPC_CFI_213/2025), of the feature breakdown of…
Read the analysisBy decision of 23 June 2025, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_46/2025 and UPC_CoA_48/2025, the Court of Appeal confirms the settlement reached between Arkyne Technologies and Plant-e concerning EP 2 137 782 (Rule 365.1).
Read the analysisBy order of 23 June 2025, the Court of Appeal dismisses Sumi Agro’s appeal against the Munich Local Division’s order of 11 March 2025 refusing to revoke the provisional measures granted to Syngenta on the basis of EP 2 152 073 (UPC_CoA_286/2025).
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (actions UPC CFI 318/2024 and 730/2024, EP 2 727 242), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, presiding, Zana, rapporteur, Lopes and Norrenbrock, technically qualified judge) dismissed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson's application for panel review of the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2024, EP 3 110 072), the Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Voß) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by Motorola Mobility, Motorola International Sales, Motorola Mobility Germany and Flextronics International Europe against Headwater Research's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_850/2024, EP 3 905 730), issued of the court's own motion by Judge-rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division), the value in dispute of the whole proceedings brought by ZTE against Samsung Electronics and five group companies…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CoA_393/2025), the Court of Appeal (Judges Kalden, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Simonsson and Rombach) held that Article 69(4) UPCA does not allow a claimant in an infringement action to obtain security for costs from the defendant.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024, EP 3 110 069), the Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Voß) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by Motorola Mobility, Motorola International Sales, Motorola Mobility Germany and Flextronics International Europe against Headwater Research's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), the Milan Local Division, on Ericsson's application for panel review under Rule 333, upheld the judge-rapporteur's refusal to set up an "external eyes only" confidentiality regime in Ericsson's infringement action against ASUSTEK…
Read the analysisBy decision of 19 June 2025, the Court of Appeal rejects as not allowable Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ application for rehearing of its order of 20 December 2024, which had upheld the refusal of provisional measures against nine Amgen group companies based on EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CoA_170/2025, EP 3 602 692), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, Blok and Gougé, rapporteur) dismissed as devoid of purpose, applying Rule 360 by analogy, ILME's appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 10…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, EP 2 404 516), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling), on referral from the judge-rapporteur, held inadmissible GISELA MAYER's application for security for costs of EUR 50,000…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CoA_402/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Alexion Pharmaceuticals' application for rehearing of its order of 20 December 2024, which had upheld the refusal of provisional measures against Samsung Bioepis (EP 3 167 888, treatment of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_297/2025, EP 2 080 349), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, ordered that the proceedings brought by InterDigital CE Patent Holdings against…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2023, EP 1 970 677), Judge-rapporteur Schumacher (Düsseldorf Local Division) granted, without opposition, the application by Rubin Medical, the sixth defendant, to protect the unredacted settlement agreement concluded with F.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, EP 3 742 231), Judge-rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) granted the joint request of Esko-Graphics Imaging and the XSYS companies to stay, under Rule 295(d), the infringement action, the counterclaim for revocation and the…
Read the analysisIn its decision on the merits of 16 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division holds that Curio Bioscience directly infringes product claim 14 of 10x Genomics’ EP 2 697 391 B1 with its “Curio Seeker Spatial Mapping KIT” in Germany, France and…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the request by four Samsung companies that Headwater Research, the US claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 110 069 B1, provide security of EUR 400,000 for legal costs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, EP 3 296 274), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) ruled on two applications in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning Incorporated.
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_309/2023, EP 3 498 115), Judge-rapporteur Haedicke (Paris Central Division) granted the firm Meissner Bolte, a non-party, access to the pleadings and evidence in NJOY Netherlands' revocation action against Juul Labs International, concluded at first…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal refused suspensive effect for NUC Electronics' appeal against the Mannheim Local Division's decision of 11 March 2025, which found infringement of EP 2 028 981 and ordered NUC to give Hurom information on origin, distribution channels, quantities, prices…
Read the analysisIn Sunstar Engineering Europe's action against CeraCon for indirect infringement of EP 4 108 413, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division read the request for a declaration of liability for damages broadly: it already covers sales of CeraPUR sealing material…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the infringement action brought by DISH Technologies and Sling TV on EP 2 479 680 (adaptive bit rate video streaming) against six companies operating or servicing streaming websites, and…
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division refused CeraCon leave to add to its counterclaim for revocation of EP 4 108 413 a lack of novelty attack based on prior art found later (EP 3 868 480).
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal upheld the Munich Local Division's refusal to extend retroactively the one-month period under Rule 151 within which Hanshow had to apply for the costs of the provisional measures proceedings it won against VusionGroup (EP 3 883 277).
Read the analysisOn Insulet's application in its claim against EOFLOW for the costs of the provisional measures proceedings on EP 4 201 327, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Central Division partly protected the fee evidence filed.
Read the analysisIn Fingon's action against Samsung for infringement of EP 2 839 403, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division held that the new examples added in the reply (Galaxy S25, further trusted applications) did not amend the claim, refused to extend…
Read the analysisFollowing a settlement, the Munich Local Division allowed the withdrawal of PHOENIX CONTACT's infringement action on EP 3 602 692 and of the counterclaim for revocation brought by Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico and ILME, declared the proceedings closed, left each party to…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 June 2025, the Court of Appeal confirms, at the parties’ joint request under Rule 365.1, the settlement concluded between Tandem Diabetes Care and Roche Diabetes Care, terminating the appeal (UPC_CoA_120/2025) against the Paris Central Division’s decision of 18…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal set aside the order of 3 March 2025 by which a single judge of the Copenhagen Local Division had declined, on the present basis, to order HGSystem and Infotech to pay the penalties attached to an order for…
Read the analysisIn 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience (EP 2 697 391), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge rapporteur, amended the confidentiality order of 11 March 2024 to replace two unavailable paralegals with two other named…
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division rectified under Rule 353 the order of 23 May 2025 on Moderna's preliminary objections in the actions brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_192/2025, EP 2 279 254 and EP 4 241…
Read the analysisThe presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, acting as judge rapporteur, rejected FUJIFILM's request for a warning to Kodak that, failing compliance within three weeks with the information orders in the decision of 2 April 2025 (EP 3 511 174), a…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division rectified under Rule 353 its decision of 4 April 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences' action against Meril on EP 3 669 828 and the counterclaim, on the five points Edwards did not oppose (items 1, 2, 3, 7 and…
Read the analysisIn SWARCO FUTURIT's action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division admitted, absent any objection, Shenzhen Dianming's intervention in support of the defendant (Rule 313), declared the invitation to intervene of 24…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed, at the joint request of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and defendants 1 and 2 (Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK's confidentiality request concerning the information they were ordered to provide to Hurom by the merits decision of 11 March 2025 (EP 2 028 981) and had lodged with…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 June 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed, at the joint request of all parties, the revocation counterclaims and applications to amend concerning EP 3 498 117 in Dainese v Alpinestars, until the final decision…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal dismissed XSYS's appeal and confirmed that the UPC has competence over alleged infringing acts committed before the Agreement entered into force on 1 June 2023 and during the period in which the patent was opted out before the…
Read the analysisThe Hamburg Local Division granted Lionra re-establishment of rights for the Rule 151 period, which expired on 19 March 2025, within which it had to start cost proceedings following the merits decision of 19 February 2025 against Cisco (EP 2 201 740).
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the partial withdrawal of Versah's action for infringement of EP 3 402 420 as against Adin Dental Implant Systems GmbH, following a settlement and with that defendant's consent, declared the proceedings closed as regards it, ordered Versah…
Read the analysisFollowing the interim conference of 28 May 2025 in Heraeus' action against Vibrantz on EP 3 215 288 and the counterclaim for revocation, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division closed the interim procedure on 18 June 2025, confirmed the oral…
Read the analysisIn BioMarin's action against Ascendis Pharma for infringement of EP 3 175 863 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_18/2025 and UPC_CFI_439/2025), the Munich Local Division decided to hear both together, asked for a technically qualified judge in biotechnology, and set the end…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the Hamburg Local Division ordered Easee B.V., Yves Prevoo and Easee Holding B.V. to provide joint security of EUR 75,000 for the costs of Visibly, proprietor of EP 3 918 974 (UPC_CFI_525/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the Court of Appeal rules on Belkin’s appeal and Koninklijke Philips’ cross-appeal against the Munich Local Division’s order of 17 December 2024, which had imposed a penalty payment of EUR 46,000 on Belkin for late compliance…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division determined, for clarification purposes, that Sunstar Engineering Europe had validly chosen English as the language of the proceedings in its infringement action on EP 4 108 413 against…
Read the analysisBy order issued on 30 May 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 (preservation of evidence) and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (inspection), the Brussels Local Division largely granted, without hearing the defendants, the applications by Genentech and F.
Read the analysisBy decision of 29 May 2025, the Paris Central Division dismissed Lindal Dispenser's revocation action against Rocep-Lusol's EP 3 655 346 and maintained the patent as amended by the first auxiliary request (UPC_CFI_202/2024).
Read the analysisBy decision of 28 May 2025, the Court of Appeal permits NanoString Technologies Europe to withdraw its revocation action against President and Fellows of Harvard College (EP 2 794 928), at the stage of Harvard’s appeal against the Munich Central Division’s decision…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division provisionally set the value of Samsung Electronics' infringement action on EP 4 050 804 against three ZTE companies (UPC_CFI_189/2025) at EUR 4,000,000 and ordered Samsung to pay an…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the Court of Appeal revoked the order of 3 March 2025 by which the Mannheim Local Division had refused Centripetal's application for preservation of evidence and inspection of premises of Palo Alto Networks under EP 3…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, following an oral hearing on 9 May 2025, the Munich Local Division rejected ALD Vacuum Technologies' request for review of the order for preservation of evidence and inspection made on 3 February 2025, without hearing ALD,…
Read the analysisBy decision of 22 July 2025, the Milan Central Division dismissed by default EOFLOW's revocation action against EP 4 201 327 (unitary effect), EOFLOW having failed to provide the EUR 500,000 security ordered on 11 April 2025, and then, after examining the…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the Court of Appeal granted Harvard (President and Fellows of Harvard College), the appellant, reimbursement of 40% of the appeal court fees, not the 60% it sought, after NanoString Technologies Europe withdrew its revocation action against…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the Mannheim Local Division, following a settlement, permitted MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geräte to withdraw its infringement action on EP 4 074 373 against three Advanced Bionics companies (UPC_CFI_410/2023), cancelled the date set for pronouncing the decision and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 28 May 2025, the Paris Central Division, seised by AYLO PREMIUM of a revocation action directed only at the German part of DISH Technologies’ EP 3 822 805 B1 (adaptive rate streaming of content), revokes that German part for…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025 (the heading bears the date 26 May), the Düsseldorf Local Division, at Grundfos's request and with no objection from Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, corrected several obvious clerical errors in its decision of 8 May 2025…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division rejected the preliminary objection to jurisdiction raised by Epson France in Dolby International's infringement action on EP 3 605 534 against five Epson companies (UPC_CFI_77/2025).
Read the analysisBy order of 26 May 2025, the Court of Appeal rejects the application for suspensive effect filed by Chainzone Technology (Foshan), intervening in support of Strabag Infrastructure & Safety Solutions, against the Vienna Local Division’s decision of 15 January 2025, which had…
Read the analysisBy joint order of 23 May 2025 in the joined infringement actions UPC_CFI_191/2025 (EP 2 279 254) and UPC_CFI_192/2025 (EP 4 241 767) brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma against fifteen Moderna group companies, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 May 2025, the Court of Appeal permits, with Juul Labs International’s consent, the withdrawal of NJOY Netherlands’ appeal (UPC_CoA_7/2025) against the Paris Central Division’s decision of 5 November 2024 dismissing its action for revocation of EP 3 504…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2025, the panel of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Total Semiconductor's application for review (Rule 333) of the judge rapporteur's order of 1 April 2025, which had refused it leave to file a further written pleading in…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division stayed, with effect from 21 May 2025 and at the joint request of the parties, who are negotiating a settlement, the revocation action brought by Kunststoff KG Nehl…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Siemens' application for security for costs against Hologic, a US company suing it for infringement of EP 2 352 431 B1 (UPC_CFI_758/2024, with the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_259/2025).
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2025 (UPC_CoA_365/2025), the Court of Appeal rejected all of Knaus Tabbert's requests for suspensive effect of its appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division's decision of 10 April 2025, which had found infringement of EP 3 356 109…
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