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By order of 11 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_44/2024, APL_5395/2024), the Court of Appeal partly set aside the order of the Munich Local Division of 18 January 2024, under which the period for Netgear to respond to the extension of Huawei's infringement action to…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2023, APL_576355/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with five judges including two technically qualified judges, set aside the order of the Munich Local Division of 19 September 2023 granting the application for provisional measures of 10x…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience based on EP 2 697 391, ruled on Curio's confidentiality application concerning commercial information in its objection.
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_263/2023, ACT_555899/2023, App_6758/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) rejected Martin Lionel's application for public access in the revocation action on EP 3 414 708 brought by BITZER Electronics A/S against Carrier…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_15/2023, ACT_459987/2023, CC_584916/2023, CC_585030/2023, App_7662/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, App_589842/2023), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the confidentiality application of Plant-e, proprietor of EP 2 137 782, in its dispute with Arkyne Technologies (referred to as "Bioo" in the order).
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_397/2023, order no. 9825), the full panel of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, C.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refused to order simultaneous interpretation from German into English of the hearing in the provisional measures proceedings brought by 10x Genomics against Curio Bioscience.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_255/2023, ACT_551308/2023, App_7184/2024), panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, T. Zhilova and S.
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, ACT_596432/2023, order no. 10136, App_8330/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_255/2023, ACT_551308/2023, App_7364/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023, ORD_10099/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignieres), after consulting the panel, declined to propose to the parties a change from French to English, the language in which EP 3 404…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_5164/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, rejected Curio Bioscience Inc.'s application to make English, the language in which EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2023, APL_576355/2023), the Court of Appeal rejected the requests of both parties to stay the proceedings in NanoString's appeal against the provisional measures ordered by the Munich Local Division in favour of 10x Genomics and the…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 February 2024 (ORD_10396/2024 and ORD_10398/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division decided, with the agreement of all parties, to deal jointly with Sanofi's revocation action against Amgen's EP 3 666 797 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ACT_459505/2023) and Regeneron's counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 23 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_590953/2023, App_8500/2024), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, ruled provisionally on Curio Bioscience Inc.'s request for protection of confidential information in the provisional measures proceedings brought by 10x…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ACT_590953/2023, App_9671/2024), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, rejected all three requests by 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 23 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, App_9671/2024), issued in German by the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience (EP 2 697 391 B1), the Division refused to defer…
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_223/2023), the Mannheim Local Division, in Panasonic Holdings Corporation's infringement action on EP 2 207 270 against Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH and five other companies, decided to hear both the infringement action and the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (APL_5395/2024, App_7580), the Court of Appeal rejected Netgear's application to shorten the 15-day period available to Huawei to respond to the statement of grounds of its appeal, lodged against the order of the Munich Local Division…
Read the analysisBy an order that bears no date in its text (published as of 22 February 2024), the Mannheim Local Division, seised by MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geräte Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_216/2023), the Mannheim Local Division, in Panasonic Holdings Corporation's infringement action on EP 3 096 315 against OROPE Germany GmbH and Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, H.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_218/2023), the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, H.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_36/2024, APL_4881/2024, App_7573/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Netgear's application to shorten the 15-day period available to Huawei to respond to the statement of grounds of its appeal, lodged against the order of the Munich Local…
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_222/2023), the Mannheim Local Division, in Panasonic Holdings Corporation's infringement action on EP 2 207 270 against OROPE Germany GmbH and Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023), the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, H.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 21 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, App_6926/2024), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, retrospectively extended to 7 February 2024 the time limit for Kodak's counterclaims for revocation of FUJIFILM's EP 3 594 009, and rejected…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_455/2023), Paolo Catallozzi, judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, hearing the action for a declaration of non-infringement of EP 2 196 231 brought on 30 November 2023 by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_454/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, in the revocation action against EP 2 196 231 brought by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_2/2024, APL_83/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal set at EUR 11,000 the fee payable for Meril's appeal against the costs decision of the Munich Local Division of 19 December 2023, made when closing…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ORD_8243/2024), The Hague Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782 brought by Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience based on EP 2 697 391, deferred ruling on Curio's request to protect confidential commercial information before it had…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set up for the whole of the proceedings concerning Panasonic's EP 2 568 724 a confidentiality regime for the licence agreements the parties wish…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, App_586761/2023), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application by Arkyne Technologies S.L., defendant in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782, for Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_425/2023, ORD_7664/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 988 471 against Dexcom Inc., Dexcom International Limited and Dexcom France SAS, aligned the start of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ORD_7657/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in DexCom, Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Laboratories and thirteen other defendants, aligned the start of the time limit for the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, Order no. 7671, Application no. 5858/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in ICPillar LLC's infringement action on EP 3 000 239 against several Arm group companies and other defendants, authorised service by…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 3 404 726 brought by Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd against Laser Components SAS concerning UV LED chips, declared admissible the application…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 December 2024, the panel of the Munich Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 3 215 288 brought by Heraeus Electronics GmbH & Co. KG and Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ORD_2866/2024), the Munich Local Division declined to change the language of the proceedings from German to English, the claimant Huawei having refused its consent, but ruled that the hearings would be conducted in English.
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_412/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division rejected the request by ITCiCo Spain S.L., defendant in the revocation action against EP 2 796 333 brought by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, to extend the time…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 February 2024 in infringement action UPC_CFI_424/2023 (EP 4 070 727), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division aligned the deadline for both defendants, Dexcom Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 8 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the Court of Appeal held that a member of the public requesting access to documents on the register under Rule 262.1(b) RoP must be represented before the UPC, and gave him 14 days to…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_392/2024), the Munich Local Division referred Regeneron's counterclaim for revocation of Amgen's EP 3 666 797 to the Central Division and proceeded with the infringement action concerning alirocumab (Praluent), while reserving the possibility of a…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, App_253/2024), the full panel of the Paris Local Division dismissed Abbott's request for review of point 6 of the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order, which caps the penalty for each breach at EUR 50,000, whereas the Munich…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ORD_3015/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, seised by 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_452/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division, seized by Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH with a request for review of provisional measures ordered ex parte in favour of Ortovox on EP 3 466 498,…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ORD_2233/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division admitted into Sanofi's revocation action against Amgen's EP 3 666 797 a six-page letter and expert declarations responding to points first raised in the rejoinder, and refused…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, App_251/2024), the Paris Local Division refused Abbott leave to appeal the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order of 19 December 2023, made in the infringement action on DexCom's EP 3 435 866.
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_181/2023), issued after the interim conference held by video the day before, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH's infringement action on EP 3 221 117 against TROESTER GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_308/2023, App_159/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division declared that VMR Products' defence to revocation was served on NJOY on 13 December 2023, the date on which the Registry sent the corrected version.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_363/2023, ACT_579244/2023, App_2249/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division rejected the request of expert e-Commerce GmbH and expert klein GmbH, sued by Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd for infringement of EP 3 926 698, to…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_457/2023, ACT_590145/2023, App_1714/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in the action brought by Dolby International AB against fifteen HP group companies for infringement of EP 3 490 258, set a common end date…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, App_595631/2023), the Munich Local Division, on Netgear's application for review, confirmed the judge-rapporteur's order of 11 December 2023 allowing Huawei to extend its infringement action, based on EP 3 611 989, to a second patent,…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_4/2024, App_100/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Meril's application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the costs decision of the Munich Local Division of 19 December 2023, given after provisional measures proceedings brought by Edwards…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ACT_549536/2023, CC_588768/2023, ORD_2223/2024), issued of its own motion by the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_590837/2023), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the application of Aarke AB, defendant in SodaStream Industries Ltd.'s action for infringement…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_486/2023, App_595643/2023), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal granted Netgear's application for discretionary review and gave it leave to appeal the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division of 11 December 2023,…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the Court of Appeal held inadmissible the applications of two firms, Mathys & Squire LLP and Bristows (Ireland) LLP, to intervene in Ocado's appeal against an order granting a third party access to its…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_263/2023, ACT_555899/2023, App_590707/2023), the Paris Central Division (F. Thomas, P. Catallozzi, U.
Read the analysisBy order of 3 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_5/2023, App_598021/2023), the Munich Local Division extended by one week, to 15 January 2024, the time limit for Philips IP Ventures's reply in its infringement action on EP 2 372 863 against Belkin and others, the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_62/2023, App_598024/2023), the Munich Local Division extended by one week, to 15 January 2024, the time limit for Koninklijke Philips's reply in its infringement action on EP 2 628 233 against Belkin and others, the rejoinder…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_597730/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the defendants (Sanofi and Regeneron), in the infringement action on Amgen's EP 3 666 797, an extension until 8 January 2024 of the time limit for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_181/2023, ACT_528357/2023, ORD_588953/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH's action against TROESTER GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_424/2023, ACT_586899/2023), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division found, in Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action (EP 4 070 727), that the statement of claim had been properly served on Dexcom International Limited on 20 December…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_478/2023, App_594342/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with its three legally qualified judges only, rejected the application by OPPO and OROPE Germany to shorten Panasonic's time limit for responding to their appeal against the refusal to…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_249/2023, ACT_550921/2023, ORD_577734/2023), the Munich Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_476/2023, App_594339/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with three legally qualified judges, rejected an application by Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany to shorten the time limit for Panasonic Holdings Corporation's response to their statement…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_201/2023, ORD_589338/2023, ACT_544303/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom and Agergaard, and Hedberg, technically qualified judge), in N.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, ACT_546446/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division granted Abbott's confidentiality requests concerning its statement of defence in the infringement action on DexCom's EP 3 435 866: the redacted passages are withheld from the public…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_472/2023, App_594327/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with three legally qualified judges, rejected an application by Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany to shorten the time limit for Panasonic Holdings Corporation's response to their statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, App_590796/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected all requests by Lama France, defendant in Hewlett-Packard Development Company's infringement action on EP 2 089 230 and EP 1 737 669, for access to two…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_201/2023, App_594633/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, on an application by N.V. Nutricia under Rule 9 RoP, clarified that the time limit for the claimant's Defence to the counterclaim for revocation and any application…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, App_586381/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected as inadmissible an application by the Netgear companies, defendants in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 611 989, for panel review under Rule 333 RoP…
Read the analysisBy interim order of 11 December 2023 under Rule 302.1 RoP (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ORD_593105/2023), the Munich Local Division, having on the same day allowed Huawei Technologies to extend its infringement action against the Netgear companies to EP 3 678 321, invited the defendants…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_452/2023, ACT_589655/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (judges Thomas, Thom and Schober), without hearing the respondents, granted Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH's application for provisional measures against Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH based on…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal set the course of Ocado Innovation's appeal against the order of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division of 17 October 2023 granting a member of the public access…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ACT_459771/2023, App_587438/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Huawei Technologies Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 8 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_219/2023, App_589186/2023), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Panasonic Holdings Corporation's application for a ruling that delivery of the statements of claim to the German address of Xiaomi Technology Germany amounted to service on four other group…
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