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By order of 17 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_14155/2025 and ORD_14156/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division held admissible the preliminary objections of the BioNTech and Pfizer defendants in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365 brought by Promosome LLC, and…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_628/2024, App_8962/2025), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered AorticLab, defendant to Emboline's infringement action on EP 2 129 425 and counterclaimant for revocation, to provide security of EUR 200,000 for Emboline's costs.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_58591/2024), Judge-rapporteur Zana of the Milan Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of Alpinestars Research, Defendant 2 in the infringement action on EP 4 072 364 brought by Dainese against six defendants.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024, ORD_9090/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom, rapporteur, and Kokke) decided, with the parties' consent and before the close of the written procedure, to hear together Ona Patents' infringement action…
Read the analysisBy decision of 14 April 2025 (ACT_66999/2024 and ACT_67004/2024, UPC_CFI_483/2023 and counterclaim CC_3555/2024), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, rejected as inadmissible the application by expert e-Commerce and expert klein to fix costs of EUR 111,000.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025, ORD_16126/2025), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Schober, Pichlmaier and Dorland-Galliot) granted Syngenta leave to extend its infringement action on EP 2 152 073 against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, ORD_9091/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Thom and Kokke) decided, with the parties' consent and before the close of the written procedure, to hear together Ona Patents' infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Headwater Research's application to sever its infringement action (EP 3 110 069), insofar as it targets Flextronics International Europe, the fifth defendant, from the proceedings against…
Read the analysisBy decision of 14 April 2025 (ACT_60376/2024, UPC_CFI_363/2023 and UPC_CFI_677/2024), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, fixed the costs owed to Seoul Viosys following the decision of 10 October 2024, which had upheld the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy decision of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_150/2025, APL_8326/2025), the Court of Appeal (Judges Kalden, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Simonsson and Rombach) reversed the order of the Milan Central Division of 3 February 2025 and granted Stadapharm access to Accord Healthcare's statement of claim…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_169/2025), the Court of Appeal dismisses the appeal by the TGI group companies (formerly Supponor) against the Helsinki Local Division’s orders of 11 and 19 February 2025.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_201/2025), the Court of Appeal permits, with Motorola Mobility’s consent, the withdrawal by Ericsson GmbH and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson of their second counterclaim for revocation of EP 3 780 758 and of their appeal against the…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_597/2024), the Milan Central Division rules on three issues in EOFLOW’s revocation action against Insulet’s EP 4201327, in which Insulet has counterclaimed for infringement.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023, ACT_568963/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding, Kupecz and Pichlmaier) ordered the immediate continuation of the written procedure in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_468/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, with the defendants' consent, to withdraw its action against fourteen Pfizer group companies for infringement of EP 4 183 412.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_12069/2025), Judge-rapporteur Postiglione (Milan Central Division) granted ALIUD PHARMA, a third party to the action for a declaration of non-infringement of EP 2 501 384 brought by Accord Healthcare against Novartis, access to the statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11612/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) ordered Promosome, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365, to deposit security for costs of EUR 1,500,000 into the UPC account within three weeks of service,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023 and UPC_CFI_676/2024, App_14059/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, permitted Meril Life Sciences to withdraw its cost application (EUR 8,379) and confidentiality applications arising from a third party, Mr…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023 and UPC_CFI_674/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division allowed Meril to withdraw its applications for reimbursement of the costs incurred in opposing a third party's request for access to the file, made by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024, App_17158/2025), Presiding Judge Tochtermann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the requests by the TCL, Hisense and LG defendants to split into three Corning's infringement action on EP 3 296 274,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_13218/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding, Thom, Agergaard and Schober) corrected under Rule 353 its decision of 7 March 2025 between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen Xiezhen Electronics (EP 2 011 218): the…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_64124/2024), Judge-rapporteur Alima Zana of the Milan Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Alpinestars S.p.A., a defendant to Dainese S.p.A.'s infringement action on EP 4 072 364, which also covers the Spanish validation.
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_10964/2025), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, presiding, Zana, rapporteur, Klein and Ashley, technically qualified) granted Dainese S.p.A.
Read the analysisBy decision of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_757/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (Judges Lopes, presiding and rapporteur, Granata and Rinkinen) allowed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its action for infringement and damages (EP 2 819 131) against Digital River Ireland, which an Irish…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_750/2024, ORD_11176/2025), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the preliminary objection of Samsung Electronics GmbH and Samsung Electronics France in Fingon LLC's infringement action on EP 2 839 403.
Read the analysisBy decision of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2024, ORD_68336/2024), Judge-rapporteur Rute Lopes of the Lisbon Local Division ruled on the costs application of AsusTek Computer, Arvato Netherlands and Digital River Ireland following the dismissal, on 15 October 2024, of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson's application…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the preliminary objections of the Hisense, TCL and LG group companies, sued together by Corning for infringement of EP 3 296 274 through the sale in Germany…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11610/2025 and ORD_11611/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division rejected the applications to produce evidence filed on 7 March 2025 by the five BioNTech companies and the four Pfizer companies, defendants to Promosome LLC's…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_194/2025), the Court of Appeal, sitting as a single judge, permits with Insulet’s agreement the withdrawal by EOFlow of its application for leave to appeal (Rule 221) against the Milan Central Division’s order of 15 February…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division rules on Fujifilm’s infringement action against Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications and Kodak Holding based on EP 3 476 616 (lithographic printing plate precursor), and on the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024), Judge Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the applications for a stay (Rule 295(m) RoP) filed by nine Hisense, TCL and LG group companies, defendants to Corning Incorporated's infringement action…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_18/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected the preliminary objection of Ascendis, sued by BioMarin for infringement of EP 3 175 863 (variants of C-type natriuretic peptide) in respect of its product TransCon CNP,…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_429/2024, ORD_55997/2024), Judge Sabine Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Hamburg Local Division, dismissed the application for security for costs filed on 7 October 2024 by Chint New Energy Technology and five companies of the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division separated, in FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies (EP 3 476 616), the requests concerning the UK part of the patent, which will be dealt with in separate proceedings.
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023), the Mannheim Local Division separated, in FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies (EP 3 511 174), the requests concerning the UK part of the patent, which will be dealt with in separate proceedings.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_68708/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judges Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, Zhilova and Samoud, technically qualified) rejected Microsoft Corporation's application for a decision by default against Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023), the Mannheim Local Division found that three Kodak companies infringed the German part of FUJIFILM's EP 3 511 174, which concerns a planographic printing plate precursor, through their SONORA XTRA-3 plates, and dismissed the…
Read the analysisBy decision by default of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_80/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal rejects as inadmissible NJOY Netherlands’ appeal against the Paris Central Division’s order of 29 November 2024, which had dismissed its action for revocation of VMR Products’…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division (Judges Brinkman, presiding, Lopez and Kokke, rapporteur) rejected the application for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) filed by the defendant, a natural person whose name is redacted, in Amycel LLC's…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2024, ORD_7652/2025, reissued as ORD_15972/2025 for technical reasons), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division refused Total Semiconductor, LLC leave to file a further written submission of 13 February 2025 in reply to the rejoinder of…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_614/2024, ORD_15600/2025), the Munich Local Division allowed MANN+HUMMEL, with SOTRAS's consent and following an out-of-court settlement, to withdraw its application for provisional measures based on EP 2 762 219, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, ORD_15869/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, extended from 3 to 8 April 2025, with Headwater Research's consent, the time for the three Samsung Electronics companies to comment on three…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_412/2023, ORD_15677/2025), the Paris Central Division (Judges Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, Zhilova and Otten-Dünnweber, technically qualified) rejected Bayerische Motoren Werke's application to supplement, by way of rectification, the order of 9 January 2025.
Read the analysisBy order of 31 March 2025 (UPC_CoA_170/2025, APL_9192/2025), Judge-rapporteur Emmanuel Gougé of the Court of Appeal rejected the request filed on 27 March 2025 by ILME GmbH and Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 March 2025 (UPC_CoA_170/2025, APL_9192/2025), Judge-rapporteur Gougé of the Court of Appeal granted PHOENIX CONTACT, respondent to the appeal brought by ILME GmbH Elektronische Handelsgesellschaft and Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ORD_15005/2025), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division rejected DISH Technologies and Sling TV's request for a finding that the information they sought from Cloudflare, a third party, under Rule 191 was not decisive for…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, ORD_5519/2025), Judge-rapporteur Tochtermann, presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, provisionally and partly granted the law firm AMPERSAND Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten access to the file in Panasonic Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 568 724…
Read the analysisBy decision of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CoA_290/2024, APL_31428/2024), the Court of Appeal (Judges Kalden, presiding, Simonsson, Rombach, rapporteur, Roselinger and Schenk) confirmed that Stäubli Tec-Systems must bear the costs of its revocation action against EP 3 170 639, which became devoid of…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_260/2025, ACT_14438/2025), made without hearing the defendants, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Schumacher and Schober) allowed OTEC Präzisionsfinish to have two polishing machines suspected of using EP 2 983 864 inspected on…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_594/2024, ORD_14440/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Schumacher and Mlakar) confirmed, under Rule 365.1, the settlement reached by Nichia Corporation and Endrich Bauelemente Vertriebs in the infringement action on EP 2 323…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_813/2024, ORD_9276/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet and Lopes) rejected the request of MAGUIN, a manufacturer of rotary kilns, to set aside the order of 23 December 2024 that had authorised,…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2025, the Court of Appeal refuses Amazon leave to file, five days before the oral hearing, a further written statement commenting on Nokia’s statement of response.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_814/2024, ORD_13139/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet and Lopes) rejected VALINEA ENERGIE's requests to set aside and to review the order of 23 December 2024 that had authorised, without hearing it,…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_582/2024, ORD_68979/2024), the Brussels Local Division (Judges Granata, presiding and rapporteur, Rinkinen, Bessaud and Kitchen, technically qualified) held that it was competent but dismissed, for lack of urgency, Barco's application for provisional measures against Yealink (Xiamen)…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_10348/2025), the Milan Central Division (Judges Postiglione, presiding and rapporteur, Knijff and Werner, technically qualified) dismissed the application by ZENTIVA K.S.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_702/2024, ORD_11997/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding, Gillet, rapporteur, and Lopes) rejected the preliminary objection by Mul-T-Lock France and Mul-T-Lock Suisse challenging the UPC's jurisdiction over IMC Créations' infringement action insofar as it concerns…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ORD_13670/2025), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Bessaud and Pichlmaier) rectified under Rule 353 a typing error in the scheduling order of 18 March 2025 issued in Adeia Guides' infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_115/2024 and UPC_CFI_377/2024, ORD_9089/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Schumacher and Kupecz) decided, after hearing the parties, who raised no objection, to hear together Hartmann Packaging's infringement action on EP 2 755…
Read the analysisBy decision of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_696/2024), Judge Voß, presiding judge and rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered MSG Maschinenbau to pay EJP Maschinen EUR 33,224.50 within 21 days in costs of the infringement action on EP 3 225 320, withdrawn…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_425/2024, App_54919/2024), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered JingAo Solar, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 787 541, to provide by 30 April 2025 security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_146/2024), the Munich Local Division, in Sanofi's action against STADA for infringement of EP 2 493 466, allowed Medac, a third party, to withdraw its application for access to the file and removed from the file…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_235/2024, ACT_27821/2024, ORD_69038/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (D. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2024, ACT_29956/2024, ORD_69030/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_554/2024, ACT_53296/2024, ORD_53411/2024), made for the Hague Local Division by P.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2025, ORD_11002/2025), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_73/2024 and UPC_CFI_408/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted, on a joint application, leave to withdraw Hand Held Products' infringement action against Scandit on EP 3 866 051 and Scandit's counterclaim, declared the proceedings…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_339/2024, ACT_36560/2024, ORD_69037/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (D. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025, the Munich Local Division, hearing Adeia Guides’ action for infringement of EP 2 793 430 against three Disney group companies, which have filed a counterclaim for revocation, decides with the parties’ consent to proceed with both…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024, ORD_13125/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), dealing with Edwards Lifesciences' application for a cost decision (Rule 151) against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences in the dispute over EP 3 646…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_67603/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Schilling) dismissed the preliminary objection of MediaTek Inc., a Taiwanese chip supplier sued by Daedalus Prime together with four Xiaomi group companies for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2023, ACT_597323/2023, CC_20972/2024 and CC_21542/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Schumacher) allowed the defendants to F.
Read the analysisBy order of 13 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_12267/2025), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ACT_59975/2024, ORD_69068/2024), the Munich Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ACT_23636/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, W.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_159/2024), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Hurom's infringement action (EP 2 028 981, juice extractor) against NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK concerning the "AUTO10" juicer sold under the Kuvings brand.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2025, issued in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_654/2024, UPC_CoA_700/2024 and UPC_CoA_1/2025 between 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College and Vizgen (EP 4108782, Hamburg Local Division), the Court of Appeal grants the applications for reimbursement of…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_162/2024), the Mannheim Local Division (Tochtermann, presiding, Böttcher, rapporteur, and Perrotti) severed, in Hurom's infringement action against NUC Electronics Co.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_162/2024), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Hurom's infringement action (EP 2 028 981, juice extractor) against the Korean company NUC Electronics Co., parent of the NUC group, concerning the "AUTO10" juicer.
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