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By a decision on the merits of 13 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_390/2023), the Munich Local Division ruled on Koninklijke Philips' infringement action against Belkin GmbH, Belkin International, Belkin Limited and several of their officers concerning EP 2 867 997 (wireless inductive power transfer,…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_427/2024, App_42538/2024, ORD_51358/2024), Presiding Judge F. Butin, for the Paris Central Division, closed the action brought on 19 July 2024 by Qualcomm Incorporated under Rule 88 RoP against an EPO decision of 10 July 2024 concerning…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_337/2024, ACT_36483/2024, ORD_51269/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding and judge-rapporteur, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023 and UPC_CFI_223/2023, App_45837/2024 and App_45833/2024), the panel of the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann, presiding, D.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_88/2024, ACT_10800/2024, ORD_28786/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_5/2023, ACT_459762/2023, ORD_50820/2024), the presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Philips IP Ventures B.V.'s infringement action on EP 2 372 863 against Belkin and other defendants, postponed the oral…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (ACT_459771/2023, ORD_50813/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 611 989 against Netgear, set aside point 3 of his order of 30 August 2024 appointing a…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_516/2024, ORD_50890/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 6 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_165/2024, ACT_18492/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas, presiding, B.
Read the analysisBy order of 6 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_580849/2023, App_47922/2024), the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thomas, presiding, B. Thom, judge-rapporteur, A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_489/2024), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal rejected Motorola Mobility's request for discretionary review of the Munich Local Division's order of 6 August 2024, which had refused it leave to change its claim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 September 2024 following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_15/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division prepared for trial Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences concerning EP 3 646 825 (prosthetic heart valve) and…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_166/2024, ACT_18551/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas, presiding, B.
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 September 2024, made in the three joined appeals UPC_CoA_464/2024, UPC_CoA_457/2024 and UPC_CoA_458/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the requests of Meril Italy, Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences to expedite their appeals against the…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_106/2024, APL_12739/2024), the Court of Appeal (K. Grabinski, presiding, P.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_486/2024, ACT_47064/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_207/2024, APL_24598/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Advanced Bionics' appeal against the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 15 April 2024, which had refused to replace German with English, the language…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_45723/2024, App_45575/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_188/2024), the Court of Appeal, sitting as a panel of five judges, dismissed the appeal of AYLO Premium, AYLO Billing and AYLO Freesites against the rejection of their preliminary objection by the judge-rapporteur of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023, App_49142/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Tochtermann) disregarded the rejoinder submissions of Xiaomi Technology Germany and the other defendants concerning two third-party licences, in the action brought by Panasonic Holdings…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2024 (ACT_545620/2023, ORD_40296/2024), the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Kupecz, Pichlmaier, Roselinger) refused Panasonic Holdings Corporation's application to extend its infringement action on EP 3 024 163, brought against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany among others,…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, ACT_39183/2024, App_48679/2024), the Deputy President of the Court of First Instance (C. Lignieres), on behalf of the President, dismissed the Magna companies' application for review of the allocation of the technically qualified judge in the…
Read the analysisBy a decision on the merits of 30 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_52/2023), the Munich Local Division ruled on the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales against Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg on EP 1 838 002 (programmable hybrid transmitter), directed…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2024, ACT_459771/2023, ORD_49424/2024), issued after the interim conference of 29 August, the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Zigann) organised the final stage of the interim procedure in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_99/2024, ACT_11910/2024, App_43001/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas) granted the confidentiality request filed by Apple Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_48649/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) granted Hewlett-Packard Development Company's request to hear, at the oral hearing of 2 October 2024, a witness employed by the HP…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_74/2024, ACT_9216/2024), the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Kupecz, Pichlmaier) ruled on the application for provisional measures by Hand Held Products, proprietor of the unitary patent EP 3 866 051 on barcode readers, against Scandit AG, publisher…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ACT_23636/2024, ORD_47657/2024), the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Schober, Pichlmaier, Dorland-Galliot) granted Syngenta Limited's application for provisional measures on EP 2 152 073 (herbicide compositions) against Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 26 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2023), the Hamburg Local Division dismissed as unfounded the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales against Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg on EP 1 612 910, and partly upheld the counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_328/2024, APL_36389/2024, App_45255/2024), the Court of Appeal (Kalden, Simonsson, Rombach, Faget, Papa) ordered Ballinno, appellant against orders of the Hamburg Local Division dismissing its application for provisional measures on EP 1 944 067, to provide security…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes) allowed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, in its application for provisional measures on EP 2 819 131 against ASUSTek Computer, Digital River Ireland and Arvato Netherlands, to…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_336/2024, ACT_36426/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the request of Aiko Energy Germany, Solarlab Aiko Europe and five other defendants to…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_364/2024, APL_39133/2024, UPC_CoA_393/2024, APL_40020/2024), the President of the Court of Appeal (K. Grabinski) dismissed as unfounded the application for review brought by a German patent attorney, whose name is redacted, against the Registrar's decision of 4…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023, ORD_591107/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_354/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the reply filed by the Apple companies, appellants against the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 18 June 2024 refusing…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, App_46219/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas) declared confidential information contained in the objection filed by the Magna companies and in two of its exhibits, in the provisional measures…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_469/2024, APL_45142/2024, App_47039/2024), standing judge I.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2024, ACT_27358/2024, ORD_43896/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (M. Haedicke) dismissed the request of Ballinno, proprietor of EP 1 944 067 and defendant to the revocation action brought by Kinexon Sports & Media, to…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_47694/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) excluded from the proceedings most of the brief filed on 15 July 2024 by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and of the brief…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_469/2024), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed the request for discretionary review filed by AYLO PREMIUM, AYLO FREESITES and AYLO Billing against a confidentiality order of the Mannheim Local Division of 22…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_454/2024) the Court of Appeal dismissed Microsoft’s request for discretionary review of the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division of 2 July 2024, which had refused to reject as manifestly inadmissible the…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2023, ACT_582093/2023, ORD_14940/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Johansson, Härmand, Bessaud, Wilhelm) dismissed the request of Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants for Edwards Lifesciences, based in the United States, to provide security of EUR 800,000…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2023, ACT_582093/2023, ORD_16663/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Johansson, Härmand, Bessaud, Wilhelm) dismissed the request of Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants to stay the infringement action on EP 3 769 722 brought by Edwards Lifesciences…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_388/2024), the Court of Appeal granted suspensive effect to the appeal of Sibio Technology and Umedwings Netherlands against the provisional measures ordered on 19 June 2024 by The Hague Local Division in favour of Abbott…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024, App_41354/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 16 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_8/2023, ACT_459769/2023, ORD_44404/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division set the timetable for resuming Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 2 628 464 against Meril Lifesciences and other defendants, together with the counterclaims for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in the infringement action brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen on EP 4 108 782, accepted that an application for production…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_498/2023, ACT_596658/2023, ORD_41184/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) granted the confidentiality application (No.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023, ORD_41183/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) granted the confidentiality application (No.
Read the analysisBy decision of 13 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_513/2023, ACT_597691/2023, ORD_39075/2024), the Munich Local Division permitted Network System Technologies to withdraw its infringement action on EP 1 552 669 against Texas Instruments Incorporated and Texas Instruments Deutschland, following a settlement.
Read the analysisBy order of 12 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_153/2024, ACT_16417/2024, ORD_42985/2024), the panel of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß, presiding, D. Voß, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 12 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_33/2024, APP_36807/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Vienna Local Division dismissed the application under Rule 262.1(b) RoP by DMV industrijski kontrolni sistemi, a competitor of the claimant, for access to the Statement of Claim,…
Read the analysisBy decision of 6 August 2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division permits Seoul Semiconductor to withdraw its infringement action against Amazon Services Europe concerning EP 3 339 920 B1, following a settlement between the parties.
Read the analysisBy decision of 9 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_122/2024, ACT_13835/2024, App_39077/2024), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_402/2023, ACT_584295/2023, App_38165/2024, ORD_38807/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) classified as confidential under Rule 262A RoP the unredacted version of the Dexcom companies' Rejoinder in Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action on EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_278/2023, ACT_561734/2023, ORD_39257/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy order of 8 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_140/2024, ACT_15774/2024, App_41690/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential under Rule 262A RoP Curio Bioscience's unredacted Statement of Defence, its updated version and two exhibits, in 10x Genomics' infringement action on EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_41/2024, ACT_5324/2024, ORD_25797/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, P.
Read the analysisIn an order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2024), the Court of Appeal, sitting in a panel different from the one that had ruled, rejected as inadmissible the application for rehearing filed by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (ORD_27411/2024, UPC_CFI_42/2024, ACT_5326/2024), the Munich Local Division refused Motorola Mobility leave to change its claims, in its action for infringement of EP 3 342 086 against Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Ericsson GmbH, so as to add…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_67/2024, ACT_8805/2024, CC_28486/2024, ORD_40041/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) dismissed the request by Manfred Sauer GmbH and Mr Manfred Sauer, defendants in Qufora's infringement action on EP 2 911 727, to be…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_45347/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman), in Winnow Solutions' infringement action on EP 3 198 245 against Orbisk, extended to 6 September 2024 Orbisk's time to reply to the request…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_86/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Panasonic Holdings’ appeal against the order of the Mannheim Local Division of 9 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_223/2023, EP 2 207 270).
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_498/2023, ACT_596658/2023, order No. 44084/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U.
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_183/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Daedalus Prime’s appeal against the order of the Hamburg Local Division of 18 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, EP 2 792 100), which had refused service of the statement of claim…
Read the analysisBy decision of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_87/2024, ACT_10738/2024, App_44884/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with the defendant's consent, permitted Seoul Semiconductor to withdraw its infringement action on EP 2 402 415 against Amazon Services Europe following a settlement, and closed the proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CoA_205/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed Nera Innovations’ appeal against the order of the Hamburg Local Division of 24 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_173/2024, EP 2 642 632), which had refused service of the statement of claim…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_580849/2023, App_35905/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Dr Thom) dismissed Aarke's request for EUR 400,000 security for costs against SodaStream Industries, an Israeli company, in the infringement action on EP 1 793 917.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, ORD_40822/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refused FUJIFILM leave under Rule 263 RoP to extend to all designations its auxiliary requests to amend EP 3 594 009, which were limited to the German…
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_233/2023), the Munich Local Division revoked in its entirety DexCom’s EP 3 797 685, which concerns communication between the sensor electronics and the display device of a continuous glucose monitoring system.
Read the analysisBy order of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_330/2024, ACT_36396/2024, ORD_44601/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring Panasonic Holdings' Statement of Claim to the attention of Xiaomi H.K.
Read the analysisBy order of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_425/2023, ORD_36398/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care's application under Rule 191 RoP for Dexcom Inc., Dexcom International and Dexcom France to disclose the entire distribution chain of the G6 and…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_195/2024, ACT_23163/2024, ORD_44133/2024), The Hague Local Division granted the application for provisional measures by Amycel LLC, proprietor of EP 1 993 350 B2 on a hybrid brown button mushroom strain, against a Polish grower whose name…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2024 (ORD_44656/2024, UPC_CFI_335/2024, ACT_36422/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division treated as good service on Xiaomi H.K.
Read the analysisBy order of 31 July 2024 (ORD_44597/2024, UPC_CFI_332/2024, ACT_36410/2024), the presiding judge, acting as judge-rapporteur, of the Mannheim Local Division treated as good service on Xiaomi H.K.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 30 July 2024 (UPC_CoA_405/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Alexion’s request to expedite its appeal against the Hamburg Local Division’s order refusing provisional measures against nine Amgen group companies under EP 3 167 888.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2024 (UPC_CoA_402/2024, APL_40470/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Alexion Pharmaceuticals' request to expedite its appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's dismissal of its application for provisional measures against Samsung Bioepis NL on EP 3 167 888.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_457/2023, ACT_590145/2023, ORD_42107/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential under Rule 262A RoP the licence agreements (exhibits BP-Liz 1 to 25) filed by Access Advance LLC, administrator of the HEVC patent pool…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2024 (UPC_CoA_1/2024, APL_8/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal referred to the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division the application for the determination of costs filed by the Hanshow companies following the Court of Appeal's order…
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set the timetable for Edwards Lifesciences’ infringement action against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences Pvt.
Read the analysisBy decision of 29 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_263/2023, ACT_555899/2023), the Paris Central Division dismissed BITZER Electronics' revocation action against claim 1 of Carrier Corporation's EP 3 414 708, which concerns cold chain monitoring of perishable goods, and maintained the patent as amended by…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_263/2023, ORD_37073/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division granted Mathys & Squire LLP access under Rule 262.1(b) RoP to all written pleadings and evidence in the revocation action between BITZER Electronics and Carrier Corporation concerning…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_43914/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division stayed, at the unanimous request of the parties, Amgen's infringement action against Sanofi and Regeneron on EP 3 666 797 pending the appeal against the Central Division's…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2024 in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_69/2024 and UPC_CoA_70/2024, the Court of Appeal dismissed NEC Corporation's appeals against two orders of the Munich Local Division (ORD_6237/2024 and ORD_6607/2024) refusing alternative service on three TCL companies based in China…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2024 (ORD_39917/2024, UPC_CFI_130/2024, ACT_14944/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the firm Powell Gilbert access to the written pleadings and evidence in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Abbott Diabetes Care against Sibio Technology and…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, App_42088/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Valeo Electrification leave under Rule 263 RoP to change the claim in its application for provisional measures of 1 July 2024 against three Magna group…
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