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By order of 1 November 2024 (UPC_CoA_520/2024, APL_51079/2024, App_57474/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal (E. Gougé), in Scandit's appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 27 August 2024 granting Hand Held Products provisional measures for indirect infringement of claims…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, ACT_39183/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, B.
Read the analysisBy order of 31 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, B.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 31 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that Aarke infringed SodaStream’s EP 1 793 917, which concerns a device for carbonating liquid in a bottle, with its “Aarke Carbonator Pro”.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Ortovox's infringement action against Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH based on EP 3 466 498, joined with a counterclaim for revocation, refused Ortovox's…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, App_54506/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas) refused FUJIFILM, claimant in the infringement action on EP 3 594 009 against three Kodak companies, leave to file a further written pleading in reply…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 October 2024 following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_9/2024, ACT_953/2024, ORD_59030/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (S. Johansson, presiding and rapporteur, K.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_549/2024), the Court of Appeal granted partial suspensive effect to Belkin’s appeal against the Munich Local Division’s decision on the merits of 13 September 2024 finding infringement of Philips’ EP 2 867 997.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 October 2024 (ORD_55012/2024), the Brussels Local Division (S. Granata, presiding and rapporteur, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, ACT_460565/2023, ORD_49363/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch), in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen, restricted access…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 October 2024, the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_525/2024, App_55164/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), in Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 before the Hamburg Local Division against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_427/2024, App_52964/2024, ORD_53290/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Central Division (F. Butin), sitting alone, dismissed Qualcomm's application for reimbursement of court fees made after the closure of its action against an EPO decision concerning EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47235/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz) granted the firm Dehns access to the written pleadings and evidence recorded in the counterclaim for revocation CC_586764/2023 between Regeneron and Amgen concerning EP 3 666…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47230/2024, UPC_CFI_1/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division granted the firm Dehns, as a member of the public, access to the written pleadings and evidence relating to the application to amend the patent (APP_590836/2023) filed…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47238/2024, UPC_CFI_1/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division granted the firm Dehns, as a member of the public, access to the written pleadings and evidence in the revocation action (ACT_459505/2023) recorded in the Sanofi v…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_297/2024, APL_32012/2024, App_55674/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding, I.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_46519/2024, ORD_47065/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) refused the application by DISH Technologies and Sling TV for the AYLO group companies and two other defendants to produce the source code…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (ORD_47058/2024, UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the application of DISH Technologies and Sling TV, which are suing several Aylo companies for infringement of EP 2 479 680, for the defendants operating…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023, App_44953/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_252/2023), the Munich Central Division upheld NanoString Technologies Europe’s revocation action against EP 2 794 928 of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which concerns a method of detecting multiple analytes through successive hybridisations…
Read the analysisIn an order of 15 October 2024 (CoA_PC 01/2024), given in French on the written procedure, the Court of Appeal declared inadmissible the appeal brought by Photon Wave, an intervener at first instance, against procedural order ORD_41423/2024 issued on 24 July 2024…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes, presiding and rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisIn an order of 15 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_570/2024), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed Microsoft’s request for discretionary review of the Paris Central Division’s order of 16 September 2024.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2024, ACT_27358/2024, ORD_47273/2024), the Paris Central Division (F. Thomas, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_44108/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) partly granted the request of Winnow Solutions, proprietor of EP 3 198 245 on monitoring food waste, for Orbisk to produce evidence on its…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (ORD_36095/2024, App_33486/2024, App_33487/2024, App_33489/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) granted SWAT Medical and a board member and investor of that company access to all pleadings and evidence in revocation action UPC_CFI_255/2023 and…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_53788/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) dismissed the application by the Abbott companies, defendants in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282, to amend their case to take account…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, App_3393/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 200,000 the first-instance costs that SES-imagotag must reimburse to the four Hanshow companies following the dismissal of its application for provisional measures.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_300/2023, CC_597425/2023), the Munich Local Division (panel 2, presided by U. Voß) drew the consequences of the final revocation of EP 3 225 320 B1 by the EPO Board of Appeal on 4 July 2024 (T…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_512/2024, ACT_50223/2024, App_54390/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Dr Thom) rejected CAN Srl Airxcel Europe's requests to extend to 30 October 2024 the time limit for a Preliminary Objection and to 30 December 2024…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_193/2024, ACT_22922/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2: U. Voß, presiding judge and rapporteur, D.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_51859/2024), the panel of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_580849/2023, App_55249/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, presiding, Dr Thom, Kupecz) dismissed Aarke's request to adjourn the oral hearing in SodaStream Industries' infringement action on EP 1793917 pending the Court of Appeal's order on the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_483/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division upheld expert klein’s counterclaim for revocation of Seoul Viosys’s EP 3 223 320, which concerns a light emitting diode, on the ground of added matter, and consequently held unfounded the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_363/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Seoul Viosys’s infringement action against expert e-Commerce and expert klein, based on EP 3 926 698 for a light emitting diode, and on the counterclaim for revocation brought…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_297/2024, APL_32012/2024, App_52471/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding, I.
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_584/2024), the Court of Appeal refused EOFlow’s request to expedite its appeal against the order of 24 September 2024 of the Milan Central Division, which had declined to join Insulet’s application for provisional measures against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_586/2024), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed as inadmissible Suinno’s request for discretionary review of the Paris Central Division’s order of 30 September 2024 requiring it to provide security for Microsoft’s costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, ORD_55287/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) rejected Edwards Lifesciences' request to align the time limit for its rejoinder to 25 October 2024 in the revocation action on EP 4 151…
Read the analysisBy preliminary order of 7 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_430/2023, ACT_588346/2023, ORD_55063/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (K. Härmand, panel presided by S.
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_2/2024), the Court of Appeal, sitting as a panel of five presided over by Klaus Grabinski, dismissed Meril’s appeal against the order of the Munich Local Division of 19 December 2023, which had ordered Meril…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023, ORD_54526/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, U.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (ORD_46842/2024, registered under ACT_595922/2023, although the operative part refers to proceedings UPC_CFI_153/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, D.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024, ACT_7603/2024, ORD_45269/2024, App_40280/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 1, M. Zigann) ordered Headwater Research to provide, within three weeks, security for costs of EUR 100,000 by deposit into the UPC account, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_153/2024, ACT_16417/2024, ORD_46985/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, D. Voß) admitted Access Advance, administrator of an HEVC standard-essential patent pool, as an intervener in support of NEC in its infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (ORD_46866/2024, UPC_CFI_498/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division admitted Access Advance, administrator of the HEVC standard essential patent pool to which NEC contributed EP 3 057 321, as an intervener in support of NEC in…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_51903/2024, App_40442/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2024, ORD_52068/2024), the Milan Central Division (A. Postiglione, presiding and judge-rapporteur, A.-L.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024), the Milan Local Division dismissed the application of EOFlow, the manufacturer of the EOPatch insulin patch pump, to intervene in support of its exclusive distributor A.
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_543/2024, UPC_CoA_544/2024 and UPC_CoA_545/2024), a standing judge of the Court of Appeal rejected the request for discretionary review lodged by six Xiaomi companies, defendants to three infringement actions brought by Panasonic before the Mannheim Local…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_45914/2024, App_42517/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel 2, presided by P. Catallozzi) ordered Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 671 173, to provide security for Microsoft's…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_217/2024, UPC_CoA_219/2024 and UPC_CoA_221/2024), the Court of Appeal notified Network System Technologies that, should it fail to provide within three weeks the security for Audi’s costs ordered on 17 September 2024, the Court of First…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_218/2024, UPC_CoA_220/2024 and UPC_CoA_222/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel: R. Kalden, presiding and rapporteur, I.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_220/2023, ACT_545619/2023, APP_31889/2024, ORD_39681/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division referred to the panel the request by Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, ACT_26489/2024, ORD_53245/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Dr Thom, Kokke) permitted, with the defendants' consent, Dolby International's withdrawal of its infringement action on EP 3 605 534 against the Optoma companies, made…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, ORD_53404/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division set out, ahead of the oral hearing of 8 October 2024, the evidence regime for the application for provisional measures brought by Valeo Electrification…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_340/2024, ACT_36792/2024, App_52697/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed under Rule 295(d), from 25 September to 15 November 2024, the action brought by Innovative Sonic Corporation for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_114/2024, UPC_CFI_448/2024, ACT_13227/2024, ORD_36668/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division partly admitted the amendment of claim sought by Heraeus Electronics GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisIn an order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_182/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH against the Düsseldorf Local Division’s order of 9 April 2024, which had upheld the provisional measures granted…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_114/2024, UPC_CFI_448/2024, ACT_13227/2024, ORD_53396/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected the applications of Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy an order of 24 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2024), the panel of the Milan Central Division (A. Postiglione, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, A.-L.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 September 2024 in three joined appeals (UPC_CoA_298/2024, UPC_CoA_299/2024 and UPC_CoA_300/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals of Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany against the Mannheim Local Division’s orders of 16 May 2024 refusing to…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 24 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_494/2023, ACT_596431/2023, ORD_52883/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division held that Rule 263 did not apply to the auxiliary requests amended by Unilever France, the defendant in the action brought by I.G.B.
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, App_33484/2024, ORD_36092/2024), the judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 20 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, App_51893/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential, under Art.
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_349/2024, APL_38206/2024), the second panel of the Court of Appeal (R. Kalden, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, I.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order delivered on 18 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_8/2023, ACT_459769/2023, ORD_36465/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (S. Johansson, presiding, K.
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_354/2024), the Court of Appeal set aside the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 18 June 2024 and ruled that the infringement action brought in German by Ona Patents before…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_265/2024, UPC_CoA_267/2024, UPC_CoA_270/2024, UPC_CoA_275/2024, UPC_CoA_277/2024 and UPC_CoA_279/2024), the second panel of the Court of Appeal (R.
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 September 2024 in six joined appeals (UPC_CoA_264/2024, 266/2024, 269/2024, 272/2024, 276/2024 and 284/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Audi’s appeals against orders of the Munich Local Division rejecting its preliminary objection and its Rule 361 requests in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, App_40799/2024, ORD_41174/2024), panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_218/2024, UPC_CoA_220/2024 and UPC_CoA_222/2024), the Court of Appeal (R. Kalden, presiding and judge-rapporteur, I.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_227/2024), the Court of Appeal partly set aside the order of the Paris Central Division of 2 May 2024 and stayed the revocation action brought by Nokia Technology against Mala Technologies' EP 2 044 709…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, App_52033/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann) rejected the application by Panasonic Holdings Corporation to have its own party expert heard as a witness at the oral hearing…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 September 2024 in three joined appeals (UPC_CoA_217/2024, UPC_CoA_219/2024 and UPC_CoA_221/2024), the Court of Appeal set aside the Munich Local Division’s orders of 23 April 2024 and ordered Network System Technologies to provide security for Audi’s costs of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, ACT_16267/2024, ORD_40128/2024 and ORD_52214/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Schilling) granted, in redacted form, the request by the firm Powell Gilbert LLP for access to the pleadings and evidence in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2024 (ORD_43015/2024, UPC_CFI_164/2024), the Paris Central Division rejected Microsoft's request for a panel review of the judge-rapporteur's order of 2 July 2024, which had refused to dismiss as manifestly inadmissible the action for infringement of EP 2…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (ACT_586899/2023, ORD_52140/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) granted Dexcom leave to amend its counterclaim for revocation of EP 4 070 727 B1 by adding a request for a declaration of…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_376/2023, ACT_581538/2023), made under Rule 105.5 after the interim conference of 6 September 2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_40903/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, App_45333/2024, ORD_45922/2024), the judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P.
Read the analysisBy decision of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_412/2023, ACT_585518/2023, ORD_51965/2024), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and judge-rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division organised the oral hearing in Panasonic's infringement action against four Xiaomi companies, Odiporo and Shamrock Mobile concerning EP 2 568 724, and set the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division organised the oral hearing in Panasonic's infringement action against OROPE Germany and Guangdong OPPO concerning EP 2 568 724, and set the value in…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_301/2024, APL_33746/2024), the Court of Appeal (R. Kalden, presiding and judge-rapporteur, I.
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