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By procedural order of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_159/2024), the Mannheim Local Division (Tochtermann, presiding, Böttcher, rapporteur, and Perrotti) severed, in Hurom's infringement action against NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK on EP 2 028 981, the claims based on the national parts of…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ACT_68533/2024, ORD_6596/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (A. Kupecz) largely granted the application of Promosome, claimant in an infringement action on EP 2 401 365 against five BioNTech group companies and four Pfizer…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 March 2025, issued in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_654/2024, UPC_CoA_700/2024 and UPC_CoA_1/2025, the Court of Appeal permits 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College to withdraw their three appeals against orders of the Hamburg Local Division that…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 March 2025, the Court of Appeal largely upholds the provisional measures granted on 27 August 2024 by the Munich Local Division to Syngenta, proprietor of EP 2 152 073 on herbicide compositions, against Sumi Agro’s Kagura herbicide.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_115/2024 and UPC_CFI_377/2024, ACT_13359/2024, CC_39587/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas) refused Hartmann Packaging (formerly Brødrene Hartmann), claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 755 901, and the defendants Omni-Pac Ekco and Omni-Pac…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_142/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, through Judge Tochtermann acting as presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, rejected an application for an order to preserve evidence and inspect premises filed, before any action on the merits, by the proprietor…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 March 2025, the Court of Appeal permits Curio Bioscience to withdraw its appeal (Rule 220.2) against the Düsseldorf Local Division’s order of 3 December 2024 requiring it to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 in 10x Genomics’…
Read the analysisBy a Rule 105.5 order of 3 March 2025, issued after the interim conference of 28 February 2025 in Headwater Research’s infringement action against three Samsung companies (EP 2 391 947, UPC_CFI_54/2024) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_396/2024), the judge-rapporteur of…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_492/2024, ACT_47484/2024, ORD_10371/2025), the single judge of the Copenhagen Local Division (P.
Read the analysisBy order of 3 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_8385/2025), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, ACT_46804/2024, App_2829/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Voß, acting as judge-rapporteur) refused Esko-Graphics Imaging leave to extend its infringement action on EP 3 742 231 against XSYS Germany and two other group companies to…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_829/2024, ACT_67479/2024, ORD_7966/2025), the Munich Central Division (Judge-rapporteur Kupecz) substituted International N&H Denmark ApS for Virdia Inc.
Read the analysisBy decision of 28 February 2025, the Paris Central Division, ruling on NJOY Netherlands’ revocation action against Juul Labs International’s EP 3 504 989 (“Vaporization device systems”), holds that claim 1 as granted contains added matter, but maintains the patent as amended…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_604/2024, ACT_57037/2024, ORD_7507/2025, published under Applications App_5729/2025 and App_5962/2025), the Milan Central Division (Judges Postiglione, presiding, Knijff, rapporteur, and Weber) allowed SharkNinja Italy to withdraw its revocation action against Dyson Technology's EP 2 043 492, following…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_743/2024, ACT_63292/2024, ORD_9485/2025), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Judges Johansson, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Härmand and Knijff) closed the provisional measures proceedings brought by Fapa Vital AG against Valentis Baltic, UAB on EP 1 978 949, following a…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 26 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_11/2024, ACT_2097/2024, CC_26515/2024, CC_32539/2024, App_8530/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) refused Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, defendant to the infringement action brought by Grundfos Holding on EP 2 778 423,…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, ACT_39091/2024, ORD_6886/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) dismissed the application for security for costs filed by GISELA MAYER, defendant to the infringement action brought by N.J DIFFUSION on EP 2 404…
Read the analysisBy a joint order of 25 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_220/2023 and UPC_CFI_221/2023), the panel of the Munich Local Division upheld the judge-rapporteur's orders of 23 and 24 December 2024 which, after Panasonic withdrew its infringement actions (EP 3 024 163) against Xiaomi and…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 February 2025 following the interim conference of 21 February (UPC_CFI_73/2024 and UPC_CFI_408/2024, ACT_9206/2024, ORD_9117/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann) set up the oral hearing of 29 April 2025 in the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_540/2024, APL_52692/2024), the Court of Appeal (Judges Grabinski, presiding, Blok, Gougé, rapporteur, Augarde and Tilmann) dismissed Biolitec Holding's appeal against the refusal of provisional measures sought against Light Guide Optics Germany and S.I.A.
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, App_15954/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 337,431.50 the costs that 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_618/2024, APL_57918/2024), the Standing Judge of the Court of Appeal (Judge Simonsson) dismissed VusionGroup's applications for a default decision and for the appeal to be rejected as inadmissible, in the appeal brought by Hanshow Technology against…
Read the analysisBy order delivered on 21 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_701/2024, ORD_68880/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding and rapporteur, Schilling, Johansson and Meewisse) dismissed Teleflex Life Sciences II's application for provisional measures against Speed Care Mineral based on EP 2 077 811, which…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_4166/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (Judge Zana) refused Bhagat Textile Engineers, applying as a member of the public (Rule 262.1(b)), access to the file of the counterclaim for revocation brought by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 20 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_590953/2023, App_2588/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) ordered the Registry to repay to 10x Genomics the EUR 2,000,000 security deposited for enforcement of the provisional measures granted on 30…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 February 2025 (ORD_7979/2025, UPC_CFI_16/2025), Judge Margot Kokke, judge rapporteur in The Hague Local Division, granted four employees of Mammoet Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 February 2025 in cases UPC_CoA_218/2024, UPC_CoA_220/2024 and UPC_CoA_222/2024, Rian Kalden, presiding judge of panel 2 of the Court of Appeal and judge rapporteur, ordered the full return of the security for costs deposited by Network System Technologies…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 February 2025, the Court of Appeal permits Aarke to withdraw its appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division’s decision of 31 October 2024 finding infringement of Sodastream’s EP 1 793 917.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 February 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_322/2024 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_588/2024 (counterclaim for revocation), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted leave to Dyson Technology Limited and to SharkNinja Europe Limited and SharkNinja Germany GmbH to…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 February 2025 (ORD_8499/2025, App_25380/2024, UPC_CFI_156/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel presided over by Judge Zigann as rapporteur) granted Chainzone Technology (Foshan) Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_58/2024), the Hamburg Local Division ruled on the action brought by Lionra Technologies Ltd. against Cisco Systems GmbH and Cisco Systems, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_156/2024, ORD_24915/2024), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Mlakar and Pichlmaier) dismissed as moot the application for preservation of evidence brought by SWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme against Yunex under EP 2 643 717.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024, ACT_54607/2024, ORD_8329/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) granted POSCO, as a member of the public, access to ArcelorMittal's statement of claim and its exhibits, except Exhibit 8, which is covered by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas) extended to 3 March 2025 the time limits for the rejoinder, the reply to the defence to the counterclaim for revocation and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 February 2025 issued after the interim conference (UPC_CFI_440/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division closed the interim procedure in Seoul Viosys’s infringement action against Laser Components over EP 3 404 726, in which Photon Wave is…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 February 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_495/2024 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_739/2024 (counterclaim for revocation) concerning EP 2 129 956, the Düsseldorf Local Division recorded the mutual withdrawals of Per Aarsleff A/S and of IMS Robotics GmbH and IMS…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 February 2025 (ORD_59528/2024, UPC_CFI_198/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel presided over by François Thomas, Maximilian Haedicke as judge rapporteur) dismissed the application by AYLO PREMIUM LTD, claimant in the revocation action against EP 3 822 805 B1,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023), the Munich Local Division, on the application of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, rectified under Rule 353 several passages of its decision of 15 November 2024 in the action brought by…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 February 2025 (ORD_68981/2024, UPC_CFI_527/2024), Judge Stefan Johansson, sitting alone in the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division, closed the evidence preservation proceedings brought by Imbox Protection A/S against Brunngård Group AB and Footbridge Group AB in respect of EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 February 2025 (ORD_65815/2024, UPC_CFI_380/2024), Andrea Postiglione, judge rapporteur in the Milan Central Division, dismissed without examining the substance EOFLOW Co., Ltd.'s application for its costs in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Insulet Corporation on EP 4…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 February 2025 (ORD_68782/2024, UPC_CFI_437/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by eight Myriad group companies sued by GXD-Bio Corporation for infringement of EP 3 346 403.
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_382/2024), the Court of Appeal set aside the order of the Hague Local Division of 19 June 2024 that had refused Abbott Diabetes Care provisional measures against Sibio Technology and Umedwings Netherlands (“Sibionics”).
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_634/2024), the Court of Appeal, hearing Meril Italy’s appeal against the Paris Central Division’s order of 14 October 2024 granting access under Rule 262.1(b) RoP to the pleadings and evidence in the revocation action between…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_635/2024), the Court of Appeal, hearing Meril GmbH’s appeal against the Paris Central Division’s order of 14 October 2024 granting access to the file under Rule 262.1(b) RoP in the counterclaim for revocation between Meril…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set the timetable for Syngenta Limited’s infringement action against Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited over European patent EP 2 152 073: interim conference by…
Read the analysisAccess by a person to highly confidential information is assessed in light of that person’s role in the proceedings before the Court, the relevance of the information to that role and the trust the person inspires (para.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_636/2024), the Court of Appeal, hearing Meril Life Sciences' appeal against the Paris Central Division's order of 14 October 2024 granting third parties access to the pleadings in the counterclaim for revocation of EP 3…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_714/2024), Tobias Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by Light Guide Optics Germany GmbH and S.I.A.
Read the analysisBy order of 12 February 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division organises the protection of confidential information in the dispute between Ona Patents and the Apple companies over EP 2 263 098 B1.
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 February 2025 (UPC_CoA_563/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing’s appeal against the Paris Central Division’s order of 16 September 2024 declaring inadmissible its confidentiality application under Rule 262A RoP against Microsoft.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_599/2024, App_3915/2025), the Munich Local Division (panel presided over by Ulrike Voß as rapporteur) confirmed, at the parties' request, the settlement reached between BSN Medical GmbH and Brightwake Ltd., Advancis Medical Deutschland GmbH and Advancis…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_640/2024, ACT_59020/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) set at EUR 84,033.76 the first-instance costs that Tiroler Rohre must reimburse to SSAB Swedish Steel and SSAB Europe Oy by 15 March 2025,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_456/2023, EP 3 490 258 B1), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed, following an out-of-court settlement, the withdrawal of Dolby International's infringement action against four ASUS group companies and of the revocation counterclaim, each side consenting.
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_214/2023, ORD_6926/2025), the Helsinki Local Division granted AIM Sport Development leave to amend its infringement action on EP 3 295 663 against the TGI Sport companies (formerly Supponor), after the Court of Appeal had referred…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 February 2025 (ORD_68781/2024, UPC_CFI_342/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_456/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division, following a settlement, allowed Dolby International AB to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 3 490 258 B1, including its application to amend, and the ASUS companies to withdraw…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 February 2025 (ORD_6847/2025, UPC_CFI_483/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by XSYS Germany GmbH, XSYS Prepress N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 February 2025 (ACT_47298/2024, App_63904/2024, EP 3 780 758), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) rejected in its entirety the confidentiality application filed under Rule 262A by the defendants, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Ericsson GmbH.
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ACT_45469/2024), the Milan Local Division extended under Rule 9, to 27 February 2025, Dainese's time limit to reply to the statements of defence and to defend the revocation counterclaims concerning EP 4 072 364…
Read the analysisThe published document is the redacted version, authorised by order of 6 February 2025 under Rule 262A RoP, of the decision given on 22 November 2024 by the Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_210/2023) between Panasonic Holdings Corporation and Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 5 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division summoned the parties to the oral hearing of 11 February 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences’ infringement action against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences and Meril Italy over…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_163/2024, ORD_4336/2025, EP 3 155 936), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) declared inadmissible the sections of Hurom's latest pleading dealing with infringement and remedies, together with two exhibits, and then allowed,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_218/2023, EP 3 069 315), the Mannheim Local Division allowed, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Panasonic's infringement action against Xiaomi companies and two distributors and of their revocation counterclaim.
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_219/2023), the Mannheim Local Division allowed, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Panasonic's infringement action against Xiaomi and two distributors, and of the revocation counterclaim.
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, on the parties' joint application, permitted the withdrawal of Panasonic's infringement action (EP 2 568 724) against OPPO and OROPE Germany and of the counterclaims for revocation,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_68703/2024), the Milan Central Division (Judges Postiglione, presiding and rapporteur, Knijff and Werner) dismissed the request by STADAPHARM, a non-party, for access to the file in the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024, EP 3 065 184 B1), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas, presiding and rapporteur) amended its confidentiality order of 23 December 2024 to add three individuals to the circle allowed to see…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 31 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_340/2023), the Mannheim Local Division (Judges Tochtermann, presiding, Kircher, rapporteur, Kokke and Geier, technically qualified) upheld Europe Forestry's revocation counterclaim against Rematec's EP 2 548 648, concerning a grinding mill, and accordingly dismissed the infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 January 2025 preparing the oral hearing (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division set out the panel’s preliminary views in FUJIFILM’s infringement action against Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications and Kodak Holding over European patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023, EP 3 511 174), the presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, Judge Tochtermann, acting as judge-rapporteur, refused to treat as costs of the proceedings the simultaneous English to Japanese interpretation requested by FUJIFILM…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ORD_5020/2025, EP 2 793 430), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted the request of the three Disney group companies sued by Adeia Guides: their common time limit for the statement…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 29 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_468/2023, ORD_68856/2024, EP 2 265 793), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet, Zana and Gaillarde, technically qualified) confirmed under Rule 365 the settlement concluded on 10 December 2024 between C-KORE Systems…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_424/2023, ORD_68588/2024, EP 4 070 727), The Hague Local Division allowed, with the consent of all parties, the withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action against Dexcom Inc.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 28 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_355/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on FUJIFILM’s infringement action against Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications and Kodak Holding over EP 3 594 009 (lithographic printing plate) and on the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 28 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_421/2024, EP 2 286 325), the Munich Local Division allowed the withdrawal of Qualcomm's infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and five other defendants, following a settlement with the former, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024, EP 3 682 587), Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division decided, at the request of the defendants ASUSTek Computer, ASUS Computer and ASUSTEK (UK), to hear Lenovo (Singapore)'s infringement action together with the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted a patent attorney, acting on his own behalf, access to the file of the counterclaim for revocation (CC_581177/2023) lodged in the infringement action brought by…
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