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The Munich local division revokes the European part of Maxell’s patent for lack of novelty and dismisses the infringement action. The decision confirms that an auxiliary request drawn from the description does not escape an obviousness objection where it merely adds a…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal dismissed Sidel's appeal against the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division rejecting its preliminary objection. It held that the question whether an action for a declaration of non-infringement can be filed before grant of the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), presiding judge and judge-rapporteur Pierluigi Perrotti of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_318/2024 and UPC_CFI_730/2024), judge-rapporteur Alima Zana of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against ASUSTek and Arvato…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 September 2026, the Mannheim Local Division largely upheld Honeywell Control Systems' infringement action on EP 2 563 695 B1 (telescopic belt conveyor) and dismissed the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 September 2026 (UPC_CoA_121/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal brought by the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) against the costs decision of the Milan Central Division of 10 July 2026, which ordered…
Read the analysisBy decision of 18 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1310/2025, infringement, and UPC_CFI_1737/2026, counterclaim for revocation, EP 4 024 777), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the mutual withdrawals of NovaCloud Licensing and of Meta Platforms, Edge Network Services and Meta Platforms Ireland,…
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to the infringement action UPC_CFI_668/2026.
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_2291/2026.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2307/2026), the Munich Local Division granted Oxford Nanopore Technologies' application for provisional measures against MGI TECH GmbH, based on EP 2 422 198 and EP 2 715 343 and directed at the Cyclone sequencing platform (CycloneSEQ…
Read the analysisBy decision of 16 September 2026, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_919/2025 (infringement action) and UPC_CoA_920/2025 (counterclaim for revocation), the Court of Appeal held the cross-appeals of Heraeus Electronics and Vibrantz against the Munich Local Division's decision of 10 October 2025 on…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division stayed Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action against seven Hyundai companies, together with the counterclaim for revocation, until the EPO's final decision on the appeal against the revocation of…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division granted the parties' joint request to amend the timetable for the written procedure (EP 3 841 735).
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026, issued in Dutch, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division ordered In(k)control, proprietor of EP 3 841 735, to provide security for costs of EUR 75,000 in favour of Esko-Graphics and Esko Software, the defendants to…
Read the analysisBy decision of 15 September 2026, given in the infringement action UPC_CFI_465/2025 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1121/2025, the Munich Local Division held the Netflix companies' counterclaim unfounded and DivX's infringement action well founded (paragraph 71).
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1830/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed two applications by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Lonza Netherlands in ToolGen's infringement action based on EP 4 397 760 (genome editing using guide RNA and Cas protein), directed…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division defers Moderna’s preliminary objection on international jurisdiction to the main proceedings, dismisses its Rule 361 request and provisionally grants confidentiality protection limited to the representatives of CureVac Manufacturing GmbH.
Read the analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Verifone GmbH, Adyen N.V. and other Verifone companies on EP 3 397 009 following a settlement, and declares the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 277 422 against the Verifone companies and Adyen (UPC_CFI_661/2026) following a settlement.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the counterclaim file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and EUR…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the panel of the Hague Local Division hearing GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA v Moderna (EP 2 590 626) revoked, after the oral hearing of 1 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur's order excluding GSK's new cryo-TEM imaging reports as…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement action on EP 2 506 479 (UPC_CFI_1796/2026) following a settlement with the Verifone companies which also covers the claims against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the infringement action file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_766/2024), the Milan Local Division grants Cardo Systems’ application to rectify its decision by default of 10 July 2026 against Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology and Hong Kong Yiheng International Technology.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 September 2026 (UPC_CoA_97/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the request by Alpinestars, Alpinestars Research and Motocard Bike under Rule 361 RoP to declare manifestly inadmissible Dainese's appeal against the Milan Local Division's decision of 21…
Read the analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and eight other defendants on EP 4 277 422, following a settlement with Transsion.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2437/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected BMS Innovations' application to declare inadmissible, or to stay, the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought by six BYD companies in respect of EP 2 937…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1332/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on a request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP by SwissBit AG and Swissbit Germany AG, upheld in substance the order for inspection and preservation of evidence granted without hearing the…
Read the analysisThe Milan Local Division grants Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. a provisional injunction against the GS3-R glucose monitoring system, on the basis of EP 3 960 072, together with an order for information on distribution channels.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2434/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division aligned the deadlines for the statements of defence and counterclaims for revocation of the four Amazon Web Services companies sued by NIXU FL IP Protection.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_11/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division released the security for costs of EUR 150,000 (EUR 75,000 per appeal) provided by Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump on the order of the Court of Appeal, in its dispute with…
Read the analysisBy decision of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CoA_92/2026), the Court of Appeal dismissed the request by Surf Loch, a non-party, for access to the pleadings and evidence in the appeal brought by American Wave Machines (UPC_CoA_75/2026) against the default decision of the Paris…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 September 2026 (UPC_CoA_935/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal dismissed the request for English-Polish interpretation under Art. 51(2) UPCA made by the appellant, a natural person whose name is not published, who was the defendant in Amycel's…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 September 2026 (UPC_CoA_113/2026), the Court of Appeal, on WEPA Nederland's appeal against the review order of The Hague Local Division, upheld in substance the measures to preserve evidence and for inspection obtained ex parte by Essity under EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2280/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the request by Influx Technologies USA, Influx Technologies Limited and two further defendants for security for costs of EUR 112,000 against IAGON, a company based in the…
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division classifies as confidential, under Rule 262A RoP, the information to be provided under sections III.2 and III.3 of the decision given the same day in UPC_CFI_297/2025 (EP 2 080 349).
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_523/2025), the Munich Central Division, on Wittenstein's stand-alone revocation action, revoked Vestas Wind Systems' European patent with unitary effect EP 4 226 039 (wind turbine power transmission system) in respect of claims 21 and 22 only,…
Read the analysisThe UPC Court of Appeal refuses to give suspensive effect to the application for rehearing filed by Fujifilm Corporation against its decision of 2 June 2026, which had upheld Kodak’s private prior use defence and dismissed the infringement action based on EP…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 August 2026 (UPC_CoA_678/2025), the Court of Appeal dismissed Hurom's appeal against the Paris Local Division's decision of 23 May 2025, which had revoked the Dutch, French, German and Italian parts of EP 3 155 936 (a juice…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_307/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed under Rule 365.1 RoP the settlement reached by Aesculap AG with Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and Shanghai Bojin Electric Instrument & Device in the infringement action on EP 2 892…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Topsoe of the experts' detailed description drawn up after the inspection and preservation order of 25 and 26 November 2025, executed at SYPOX's…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1938/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. and Dentsply Sirona Deutschland, defendants to iCAT Corporation's infringement action on EP 1 808 129.
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its three infringement actions against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co. Ltd. and nine other defendants on EP 2 712 236, EP 3 836 631 and EP 3 245 744, following a settlement…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 August 2026, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2020/2025 (revocation action) and UPC_CFI_2034/2025 (action for a declaration of non-infringement) brought by SprintRay against the proprietors of EP 3 762 212, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division ruled on…
Read the analysisBy decision of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_362/2025 and UPC_CFI_0001786/2025), the Paris Local Division permitted, under Rule 265 RoP, the withdrawal of Sun Patent Trust's infringement action on EP 3 407 524 against Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication,…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna on EP 4 241 767 and of the counterclaim for revocation (paragraph 4).
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_56/2025 and UPC_CFI_864/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the infringement action on EP 3 402 420 (a dental rotary osteotome with helical flutes) brought by Versah LLC, an exclusive sub-licensee, against…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna, Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_757/2024) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_539/2025) concerning EP 2 819 131, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division dismissed ASUSTek's confidentiality request in Ericsson v ASUSTek.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 August 2026 issued jointly in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1733/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_1537/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the withdrawal of both actions between Malikie Innovations Limited and Xiaomi Corporation and eight…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_2665/2026 and UPC_CFI_539/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division stayed Ericsson's applications against ASUSTek for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) and for costs (Rule 150 RoP), pending the Court of Appeal's decision on the…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_495/2025 and UPC_CFI_1131/2025), the Hamburg Local Division upheld Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action against HMD Global based on EP 2 609 590, which concerns the decoding of audio signals containing transients, maintained the patent as worded in Auxiliary…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_466/2025 and UPC_CFI_869/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Dai Nippon Printing's infringement action on EP 3 805 415 against Zapp AG and Zapp Precision Metals, allowed the claimant to engage, at its own cost, interpreters from…
Read the analysisBy decision of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CoA_894/2025), the Court of Appeal held inadmissible Windhager's appeal against the Mannheim Local Division's decision of 12 September 2025, which had largely upheld bellissa HAAS's infringement action on EP 2 223 589 and dismissed the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CoA_61/2026), the Court of Appeal set aside the Paris Local Division's order of 10 April 2026 refusing SharkNinja Operating provisional measures based on EP 3 689 198, and ordered the Groupe SEB companies, in France and…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CoA_135/2026), the Court of Appeal dismissed the application by Nuna International and Allison for suspensive effect of their appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's provisional measures order of 10 August 2026, granted to Cybex on EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 August 2026, issued in German in the provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_2788/2026 concerning EP 3 645 903, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Valeo Electrification's confidentiality application against SEG Automotive Germany GmbH.
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2026 issued in the joined files UPC_CFI_620/2025, UPC_CFI_1509/2025 and UPC_CFI_1511/2025, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepared the oral hearing of 3 September 2026 in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and the Pfizer and…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 August 2026, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_2020/2025 (revocation action) and UPC_CFI_2034/2025 (action for a declaration of non-infringement) brought by SprintRay against the two Liechtenstein-resident proprietors of EP 3 762 212, the panel of the Paris Central Division refused to…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_860/2025), the Milan Central Division rules on LS9 GmbH's revocation action against Bellissa HAAS GmbH's EP 2 223 589 (a bed edging with a lockable sheet-metal strip), limited to Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 August 2026, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_908/2025, UPC_CoA_909/2025 and UPC_CoA_918/2025 (this note concerns file UPC_CoA_908/2025), the Court of Appeal upholds the dismissal of Hartmann Packaging's infringement action against the Omni-Pac companies based on EP 2 755…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 August 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_492/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1309/2025, the Munich Local Division dismisses the Roborock companies' preliminary objection and then PAPST LICENSING's infringement action based on EP 3 030 943 (a method for…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 August 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_86/2025 (EP 2 465 265), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
Read the analysisIn a final order of 17 August 2026 (UPC_CoA_87/2026), the Court of Appeal dismisses the Lepu companies' appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 20 May 2026, which had declared EUR 58,800 in penalty payments forfeited for non-compliance with a provisional…
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 July 2026 issued in the joined proceedings UPC-CFI-0001536/2025, UPC-CFI-0000982/2026 and UPC-CFI-0001168/2026 (EP 3 079 153), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application for panel review brought by Dolby International AB and the intervener Vectis IP Ltd.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 July 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_565/2024 (and proceedings UPC-CFI-0002246/2025) concerning EP 2 337 403 and EP 3 944 587, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division ruled on the confidentiality club in Koninklijke KPN v…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_996/2025, UPC_CFI_737/2026 and UPC_CFI_742/2026, EP 3 003 087), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division provisionally admits Boa Technologies Inc.'s auxiliary requests 1bis to 12bis and defers its application under Rule 30.2 RoP to the…
Read the analysisOn Micron’s application for protection of technical information on the Z01M chip, produced in support of a prior user right, the Local Division refuses an attorneys’ eyes only regime (paras.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026, given in the joined files UPC_CoA_40/2026 and UPC_CoA_123/2026, the Court of Appeal rejects Emboline's request under Rule 333 RoP for review of its clarification order of 16 July 2026 on how a conditional counterclaim for…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 issued in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_69/2026, UPC_CoA_71/2026 and UPC_CoA_72/2026, the UPC Court of Appeal rejected as inadmissible the appeals of Network System Technologies LLC (NST) against the Munich Local Division's dismissal of its requests for…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026) concerning EP 3 732 827, the Brussels Local Division refused Barco NV's application to introduce a sixth auxiliary request against Yealink.
Read the analysisIn a final decision of 17 August 2026, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_365/2025 (infringement) and UPC_CoA_367/2025 (counterclaim for revocation), the Court of Appeal rules on Knaus Tabbert AG's appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division's decision of 10 April 2025 on EP…
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