27 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 January 2025 in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_244/2024 and UPC_CFI_786/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) ordered the infringement claimant to provide, by 24 February 2025, security for costs of…
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27 January 2025
CFI
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_755/2024), Judge Ulrike Voß of the Munich Local Division granted Avago Technologies International Sales a refund of 20% of the court fees, namely EUR 2,200, after it withdrew its application for provisional measures against Realtek…
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27 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
In a procedural order of 27 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024), issued in German, the Munich Local Division set the timetable for Lenovo (Singapore)’s infringement action on EP 3 682 587 against ASUSTek Computer, ASUS Computer and ASUSTEK (UK): an interim conference by videoconference…
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27 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
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24 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
In an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_840/2024), the Court of Appeal permitted, on appeal, the withdrawal of DexCom’s infringement action and of the counterclaim for revocation brought by the Abbott companies, including Newyu, concerning EP 3 831 282.
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24 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_238/2024), the full panel of the Paris Local Division, presided over by Judge Lignières, held inadmissible the standalone revocation action brought by Photon Wave against Seoul Viosys's patent EP 3 404 726.
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24 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Counterclaim for revocation
Decision with commentary
In a procedural order of 24 January 2025, the Munich Local Division set the timetable for the proceedings on EP 2 493 466 between the Sanofi companies and Accord Healthcare, STADA, Dr Reddy’s and Zentiva (UPC_CFI_145, 146, 147, 148, 374, 463, 496…
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24 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By a procedural order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2024 and UPC_CFI_448/2024, EP 3 215 288), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) postponed the interim conference, to be held by video, to 28 May 2025 in the infringement action brought…
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24 January 2025
CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Application RoP262A
Decision with commentary
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24 January 2025
CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (ORD_68843/2024, UPC_CFI_472/2024), the full panel of the Milan Local Division classified as confidential the settlement between Dainese and the defendant Horizon Moto 95, filed in support of a partial withdrawal (Exhibit 70), together with the…
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24 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Amend Document
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, EP 2 391 947), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted Headwater Research leave to amend its requests in its infringement action against three Samsung companies and in the…
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24 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, EP 2 645 714), Panel 2 of the Munich Local Division permitted, following a settlement and a licence agreement, the withdrawal of four TCL companies' counterclaims for revocation and of TCL Deutschland's counterclaim for…
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24 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_569/2024), the Court of Appeal permitted, on appeal, the withdrawal of DexCom's infringement action (UPC_CFI_233/2023, EP 3 797 685) and of the Abbott companies' counterclaims for revocation, declared the proceedings closed and ordered a refund…
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24 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_505/2024), the Court of Appeal permitted, on appeal, the withdrawal of DexCom's infringement action (UPC_CFI_230/2023, EP 3 435 866) and of the Abbott companies' counterclaims for revocation, declared the proceedings closed and ordered a refund…
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24 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Application RoP262.1 (b)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 January 2025 (dated 2024 in the text by mistake), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi) rejected the request of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO (epi) for access to the pleadings and…
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23 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3764/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) closed, without ruling on it, the application by Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences to stay the confidentiality proceedings on…
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23 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3866/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) invited Edwards Lifesciences to comment within ten days on the confidentiality of its cost application against Meril GmbH and Meril…
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23 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3774/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) lifted all deadlines relating to Edwards Lifesciences' cost application and to the protection of the confidential information it contains.
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23 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 23 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Meril's application for a partial stay of the cost proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences (EP 3 646 825) pending the Court of Appeal's decision on Meril's…
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22 January 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By an order of 22 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Kokke), sitting alone, granted in part and without hearing the defendant measures to preserve evidence sought by Mammoet Holding against P.T.S.
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22 January 2025
CFI / Mannheim (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
In an order of 22 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division prepared the oral hearing in Fujifilm’s infringement action on EP 3 511 174 against three Kodak companies, which have counterclaimed for revocation.
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22 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Revocation Action
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 22 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_310/2023), the Paris Central Division ruled on NJOY Netherlands’ revocation action against VMR Products’ EP 3 613 453, which concerns an electronic cigarette with charging contacts.
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22 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By a common order of 22 January 2025, issued after the preliminary interim conference in Sanofi's four joined infringement actions against Accord, Stada, Reddy and Zentiva (UPC_CFI_145/2024 to UPC_CFI_148/2024, EP 2 493 466, cabazitaxel), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge…
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21 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 15 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, granted the application by the defendants XSYS Germany, XSYS Prepress and XSYS Italia to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language in…
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21 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Revocation Action
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 21 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_311/2023), the Paris Central Division dismissed NJOY Netherlands’ revocation action against VMR Products’ EP 3 626 092, which concerns an electronic cigarette whose cartomizer has a translucent portion through which the liquid can be seen,…
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21 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 21 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, EP 3 655 341), Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division held that publishing on the UPC website the decision by default of 9 January 2025, given on air up group's application for provisional…
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21 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 21 January 2025, made in the infringement action and counterclaim for revocation between Maxeon Solar and Aiko Energy Germany and seven other defendants (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024, EP 3 065 184), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf…
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21 January 2025
CFI / Nordic Baltic Regional Division / Application RoP262.1 (b)
Decision with commentary
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21 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
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20 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By order of 20 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_835/2024), the Court of Appeal ruled on the confidentiality application filed by Amazon Europe Core, Amazon EU and Amazon.com with their appeal against an order of the Munich Local Division of 16 December 2024, which had…
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20 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 20 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, Camille Lignières, dismissed the request by N.J. DIFFUSION, proprietor of EP 2 404 516 and claimant in the infringement action against GISELA MAYER (UPC_CFI_363/2024), to hold the interim conference…
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20 January 2025
CFI / Nordic Baltic Regional Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 20 January 2025, the full panel of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (judge-rapporteur Kai Härmand) declared closed the proceedings between Abbott Diabetes Care and Dexcom Inc.
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20 January 2025
CFI / Nordic Baltic Regional Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
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20 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Application RoP262A
Decision with commentary
Confidentiality orders issued at first instance and not challenged on appeal continue to have effect during the appeal proceedings, including after the close of the proceedings (paras.
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20 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic application
Decision with commentary
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20 January 2025
CFI / Nordic Baltic Regional Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
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17 January 2025
CFI / Brussels (BE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By decision on the merits of 17 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_376/2023), given in Dutch, the Brussels Local Division dismissed a Belgian orthodontist's action against OrthoApnea and Vivisol B for literal and equivalent infringement of a European patent for a mandibular advancement device.
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17 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application Rop305
Decision with commentary
By order of 17 January 2025, Presiding Judge Matthias Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, substituted Sanofi SA for Sanofi Mature IP, claimant no.
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17 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 15 January 2025, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division (judge-rapporteur Ulrike Voß) permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action brought by NEC Corporation against TCL Deutschland and six other companies (UPC_CFI_487/2023, EP 2 645 714), with Access…
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17 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Revocation Action
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 17 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_316/2023), the Paris Central Division revoked in its entirety Juul Labs International’s EP 3 430 921, which concerns vaporisation devices, for Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden, on NJOY Netherlands’ revocation…
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17 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 15 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_498/2023), the Munich Local Division permitted NEC to withdraw its infringement action against several TCL group companies based on EP 3 057 321, the parties having reached an agreement before the close of the written procedure.
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16 January 2025
CFI / Hamburg (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 16 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, Dr Schilling, permitted Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg to withdraw their application for the determination of costs (UPC_CFI_54/2023) and declared those proceedings closed, after the parties had withdrawn,…
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16 January 2025
CFI / Vienna (AT) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 15 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_33/2024), issued in German, the Vienna Local Division largely upheld SWARCO Futurit’s infringement action on EP 2 643 717 (colour-mixing collecting optics for LED display panels) against STRABAG Infrastructure & Safety Solutions, joined by the…
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16 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Appeal RoP220.1
Decision with commentary
By order of 16 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_30/2024), given in German, the second panel of the Court of Appeal set aside the Hamburg Local Division's order of 17 November 2023, which had declined jurisdiction over Fives ECL's damages action against REEL, and remitted…
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16 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Application Rop 223
Decision with commentary
By order of 16 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_12/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, Emmanuel Gougé, rejected the application for suspensive effect filed by Bhagat Textile Engineers with its appeal against the Milan Local Division's decision of 4 November 2024, which had…
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16 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 16 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, dismissed the application by NVIDIA Corporation and NVIDIA GmbH to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language of grant, in the infringement…
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16 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 16 January 2025, the Hamburg Local Division (presiding judge Sabine Klepsch, judge-rapporteur Stefan Schilling) referred to the Paris Central Division the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_436/2024) lodged in Daedalus Prime's infringement action against Xiaomi Communications and four other defendants, including…
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15 January 2025
CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 15 January 2025, the Milan Local Division (judge-rapporteur Alima Zana) extended to 27 February 2025 the time limit for Alpinestars, first defendant in Dainese's infringement action (UPC_CFI_472/2024, EP 4 072 364 and EP 3 498 117), to file its…
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15 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 15 January 2025, issued in German in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_629/2024, 631/2024 and 632/2024, the Court of Appeal permitted the withdrawal of Avago’s infringement action and of Tesla’s counterclaims for revocation concerning EP 1 612 910, following the…
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15 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 10 January 2025, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division (judge-rapporteur Ulrike Voß) allowed the withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action against Dexcom Inc., Dexcom Deutschland and Dexcom International (UPC_CFI_402/2023, EP 4 087 195), including its application…
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15 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic application
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14 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 14 January 2025, panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (presiding judge and judge-rapporteur Paolo Catallozzi) permitted the withdrawal of the revocation action brought by Bentley Motors against Network Systems Technologies concerning EP 1 552 399 (ACT_19132/2024).
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14 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Request for a discretionary review (RoP 220.3)
Decision with commentary
By order of 14 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_651/2024), the second panel of the Court of Appeal, on discretionary review, set aside the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division of 16 October 2024, which had required Total Semiconductor to provide EUR…
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14 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
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14 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application RoP262A
Decision with commentary
By order of 14 January 2025, Presiding Judge Matthias Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, ruled on Sanofi's application to protect the witness statement filed as Exhibit D.4 in its infringement actions on EP 2 493…
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14 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Counterclaim for revocation
Decision with commentary
In a decision of 14 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), given in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division upholds Ortovox Sportartikel's EP 3 466 498 (avalanche transceiver), dismisses the counterclaim for revocation of Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH and finds that…
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13 January 2025
CFI
Decision with commentary
By an order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_755/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) permitted Avago Technologies International Sales to withdraw its application for provisional measures against Realtek Semiconductor, based on EP 1 770 912, without hearing the respondent.
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13 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_690/2024), the Court of Appeal permitted Valeo Electrification to withdraw its application for provisional measures based on EP 3 320 604 against Magna group companies (UPC_CFI_368/2024), pending the appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division’s order of…
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13 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application Rop 333
Decision with commentary
By a revised order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, on the application of President and Fellows of Harvard College (claimant 2, alongside 10x Genomics, against NanoString Technologies), modified the judge-rapporteur's order of 14 October 2024.
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13 January 2025
CFI
Decision with commentary
By order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_791/2024, ACT_65376/2024), the single judge of the Munich Local Division permitted Huawei to withdraw its application for provisional measures against three Netgear companies (referred to in the order as "AASI und AAEI"), concerning EP 3 611…
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13 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_689/2024, APL_60971/2024), the Court of Appeal permitted Valeo Electrification to withdraw its action (ACT_37931/2024, UPC_CFI_347/2024) against three Magna companies while their appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division's provisional measures order of 31 October 2024 on EP…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By a decision of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2024 and UPC_CFI_657/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the withdrawal of Valeo Electrification's infringement action against Magna PT and two other Magna companies, based on EP 3 320 602, and of the revocation counterclaim, each…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_9/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann, rapporteur) granted the parties' concurring applications for leave to withdraw Huawei's infringement action against Netgear, based on EP 3 611 989, and the three revocation counterclaims, together with…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_460/2024 and UPC_CFI_658/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed, on each side's application and with the other's consent, the withdrawal of Valeo Electrification's infringement action against three Magna companies on EP 3 320 604, and of the…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_152/2024), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann, rapporteur) granted Netgear Deutschland, Netgear Inc. and Netgear International leave to withdraw their action for a declaration of non-infringement against Huawei concerning EP 3 678 321 and EP…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_249/2023, ORD_4627/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division fixed at EUR 244,000 the costs that Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences must reimburse to Edwards Lifesciences following provisional measures proceedings, an amount the parties had…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris Local Division, on cross-applications for costs by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and Lama France following the decision on the merits of 13 November 2024, refused to raise the ceiling on representation costs by 50%…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By a decision of 8 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_396/2023), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed the withdrawal of Dexcom's infringement action against Abbott Laboratories and twelve other Abbott companies, based on EP 4 111 949, of the application to amend the patent…
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10 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Appeal RoP220.2
Decision with commentary
By order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_584/2024), the Court of Appeal disposed of EOFlow’s appeal as devoid of purpose. The appeal challenged the Milan Central Division’s order of 24 September 2024 refusing to join Insulet’s application for provisional measures against EOFlow (EP…
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10 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_168/2024, ACT_18917/2024 and CC_20512/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted, on cross-applications and with the other side's consent, the withdrawal of Huawei's infringement action against three Netgear companies on EP 3 678 321 and…
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9 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_412/2023), the Paris Central Division (panel 2, Judge Catallozzi as judge-rapporteur) dismissed ITCiCo Spain's application to set aside the decision by default of 16 September 2024 given in the revocation action between it and Bayerische…
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9 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Application RoP262A
Decision with commentary
By order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_769/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal held that A. Menarini Diagnostics’ confidentiality request in Insulet’s appeal against the Milan Local Division’s refusal of provisional measures (EP 4 201 327) was superfluous.
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9 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Appeal RoP220.2
Decision with commentary
By order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_480/2024 and UPC_CoA_481/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care’s appeal against two orders of The Hague Local Division of 29 July 2024 granting Powell Gilbert, acting as a member of the public, access to…
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9 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Decision By Default
Decision with commentary
By a decision by default of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_509/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division granted air up group's application for provisional measures against Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, based on EP 3 897 305.
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9 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Decision By Default
Decision with commentary
By decision by default of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, ACT_597609/2023), the Munich Local Division ordered Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, a Chinese company that had remained silent after service was deemed good, to stop offering, placing on the market, using, importing or storing…
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9 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (Judge Butin), after consulting the panel, granted the application of XPENG and sixteen other defendants to switch to English, the language in which EP 3290200 was…
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9 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Application For Costs
Decision with commentary
By order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_611/2024), the Court of Appeal ordered that 60% of the court fees for the appeal be refunded to DISH Technologies and Sling TV, who had lodged and then withdrawn an appeal against the Mannheim Local Division…
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9 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_769/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal (Judge Rombach) dismissed A. Menarini Diagnostics' request to extend to 30 December 2024 the time limit for its statement of response, in Insulet's appeal against the Milan…
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8 January 2025
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 8 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_189/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi) dismissed the application by Meril Italy, Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences for an order that SWAT Medical pay EUR 15,000 in costs for the…
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8 January 2025
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Application Rop313
Decision with commentary
By an order of 8 January 2025 (UPC_CoA_621/2024), the Court of Appeal (panel 1a) granted MediaTek leave to intervene in support of Xiaomi in Daedalus Prime's appeal against a Hamburg Local Division order on access by its US attorneys to confidential information…
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7 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_208/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed Avago Technologies International Sales to withdraw the infringement action on EP 1 770 912 that it had brought on 3 May 2024 against Tesla Germany and Tesla…
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7 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application Rop305
Decision with commentary
By an order of 7 January 2025, made in the parallel infringement actions on EP 2 493 466 (UPC_CFI_145/2024 to UPC_CFI_148/2024, against Accord Healthcare, STADA, Reddy and Zentiva), Judge Zigann, judge-rapporteur at the Munich Local Division, substituted Sanofi Winthrop Industrie for Sanofi-Aventis…
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7 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_322/2024), Judge Zigann, judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, stayed Dyson Technology's infringement action against SharkNinja Europe and SharkNinja Germany, based on EP 2 043 492, and the counterclaim, on Dyson's application…
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7 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg to withdraw the revocation counterclaim they had brought against EP 1 770 912 in the infringement action filed by Avago Technologies…
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7 January 2025
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By a decision of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division, before the written procedure closed, allowed the withdrawal of DexCom's infringement action against thirteen Abbott companies (EP 4 026 488), together with the application to amend the patent, and of…
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3 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Central Division - Section / Application RoP262.1 (b)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 3 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_252/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (Judge Kupecz) granted Berggren Oy access to the written pleadings and evidence in NanoString Technologies Europe's revocation action against President and Fellows of Harvard College (EP2794928), which…
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2 January 2025
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 2 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_168/2024), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division decided, at both parties' request, to hear together Huawei's infringement action against Netgear Deutschland, Netgear Inc.
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30 December 2024
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_168/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Huawei's action against three Netgear companies for infringement of EP 3 678 321 and the counterclaim for revocation, asked the President of the Court of First Instance…
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30 December 2024
CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_60558/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (Judge Zana) dismissed Insulet's application for a costs decision against Eoflow, whose application to intervene in support of A.
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30 December 2024
CFI / Hamburg (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_173/2024 and UPC_CFI_424/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) declined to rule during the written procedure on the admissibility of Nera Innovations' auxiliary requests to amend EP 2 642 632, and of…
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27 December 2024
CoA / Luxembourg (LU) / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CoA_523/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal relieved Syngenta of the need to translate Exhibit FF25, a German-language document filed with its Statement of response in Sumi Agro’s appeal against an order of the Munich…
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27 December 2024
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Application Rop 333
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_62910/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi presiding and acting as judge-rapporteur) rejected Suinno's request to reduce from EUR 300,000 to EUR 100,000 the security for costs ordered on 27 September 2024 (ORD_45914/2024) in…
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27 December 2024
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_100/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thom as judge-rapporteur, Judges Thomas and Kokke) ordered Ona Patents, claimant in an action for infringement of EP 2 263 098 against Google Ireland and Google Commerce, to provide…
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27 December 2024
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
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27 December 2024
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_63208/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judge Catallozzi presiding and acting as judge-rapporteur) rejected Microsoft's request to raise to at least EUR 500,000 the security for costs of EUR 300,000 already imposed on Suinno in…
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27 December 2024
CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 27 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_99/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas as judge-rapporteur, Judges Thom and Kokke) ordered Ona Patents, alleged proprietor of EP 2 263 098 and claimant in an infringement action against five Apple companies, to provide…
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26 December 2024
CFI / Paris (FR) Central Division - Seat / Revocation Action
Decision with commentary
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24 December 2024
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_244/2024 and UPC_CFI_609/2024), Judge Zigann, on behalf of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, extended to 27 December 2024 Snowpixie's time limits to file its reply in its action for infringement of EP 3…
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24 December 2024
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
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24 December 2024
CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 24 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_213/2023, UPC_CFI_220/2023 and UPC_CFI_224/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) permitted, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Panasonic's three infringement actions against ten companies including Xiaomi and of the defendants' counterclaims, and declared the proceedings…
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