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In an order of 6 May 2026 (UPC_CoA_900/2025), the Court of Appeal permits, with Occlutech's express consent, the withdrawal of Lepu Medical's appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's order for provisional measures of 21 October 2025 (EP 2 387 951), declares the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 May 2026 given in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_757/2024 and UPC_CFI_539/2025), the Lisbon Local Division held that ASUSTek Computer infringed Ericsson’s EP 2 819 131 (an inductor arrangement reducing oscillator coupling), which expired…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_336/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Hurom to withdraw its application for a costs decision against NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK, after the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of 11 March…
Read the analysisFollowing the interim conference of 30 April 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_196/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_665/2025 concerning EP 2 403 266, held by Maxell, Ltd., the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division sets the value of the proceedings and organises the…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_335/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Hurom to withdraw its application for a costs decision against NUC Electronics Co., after the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of 11 March 2025 and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1881/2025), the Hamburg Local Division orders Ningbo Blue Pluser Appliance, which failed to comply with the information obligation in the provisional measures order of 9 December 2025 obtained by Brita (EP 2 131 940 B1),…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_159/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits Hurom to withdraw its requests for penalty payments against NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK (EP 2 028 981), made in enforcement proceedings (Rule 354.4 RoP) that…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_727/2024 and UPC_CFI_493/2025), the Milan Local Division rules on Agathon's infringement action against Intercom (manufacturer) and Knarr Vertriebs (distributor) on EP 2 363 263 B1 (centring device for a forming tool), and on Intercom's counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 May 2026 the Mannheim Local Division permits Hurom to withdraw its request for penalty payments against NUC Electronics, after the Court of Appeal had set aside the infringement decision concerning EP 2 028 981, declares the enforcement proceedings…
Read the analysisIn an order delivered on 30 April 2026 and reasoned in writing on 4 May 2026, in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2028/2025 and UPC_CFI_2031/2025, the single judge of The Hague Local Division dismisses Krahn Chemie Benelux's request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) of the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_885/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division sets aside the order for inspection and preservation of evidence it had granted on 22 September 2025 without hearing STEROS GPA Innovative, since OTEC Präzisionsfinish brought no action on the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division rules on SYPOX's request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) and its request to recuse the experts, both directed at the order for inspection and preservation of evidence issued without hearing…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1167/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division corrects a clerical mistake (Rule 353 RoP) in the name of one of Genentech and F.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_552/2025), the Milan Central Division grants Gilead Sciences' revocation action and revokes in its entirety the Academy of Military Medical Sciences' unitary patent EP 3 854 403, which claimed the use of remdesivir to treat…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1148/2026), the Munich Local Division admits the withdrawal, consented to by Melitta, of Miele's application for provisional measures concerning vacuum cleaner bags (EP 4 676 295 B1), made after the panel indicated that the validity…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_851/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division refuses, for the time being, to stay Dyson's infringement action against Dreame and five other defendants (EP 3 119 235), whether pending the Court of Appeal's preliminary…
Read the analysisAt the defendants' request, and with no objection from Dolby International AB or the intervener Vectis IP Ltd., the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division corrects an obvious error in the order of 1 May 2026 in proceedings UPC_CFI_1536/2025, UPC_CFI_982/2026 and UPC_CFI_1168/2026…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1536/2025, UPC_CFI_982/2026 and UPC_CFI_1168/2026), the panel of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request for review under Rule 333 RoP of the judge-rapporteur's order of 1 May 2026, which had held admissible Acer's counterclaim for rate-setting…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_840/2026), the Milan Local Division allows Guala Pack to have its statement of claim served on LD Packaging (Foshan), a Chinese company, at its stand at the Interpack trade fair in Düsseldorf from 7 to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_1/2026), the Court of Appeal dismisses as wholly inadmissible Adobe's immediate appeal against the Paris Local Division's order of 19 December 2025 setting at EUR 50,000 the security for costs to be provided by KEEEX…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 30 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division records the exchanges at the case management hearing held online and behind closed doors on 23 February 2026 in the infringement action brought by Dolby International AB against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 April 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the confidentiality application filed by Katun and General Plastic after the decision on the merits of 11 February 2026, concerning…
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division orders that 50% of the court fees paid in infringement action UPC_CFI_1648/2025 (EP 1 954 091), namely EUR 7,500, be reimbursed to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_721/2025 and the counterclaim UPC_CFI_1695/2025, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly grants TMS's request for production of evidence under Rule 190 RoP.
Read the analysisBy order of 29 April 2026 (ACT_551054/2023, action UPC_CFI_214/2023), the Helsinki Local Division disposed of the application for provisional measures brought in July 2023 by AIM Sport Development against five TGI Sport companies on the basis of EP 3 295 663 as…
Read the analysisBy decision of 29 April 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_214/2023 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_403/2025, the Helsinki Local Division dismisses both: AIM Sport Development AG’s patent EP 3 295 663 is upheld as granted, but TGI Sport’s SVB System infringes it…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_56/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismisses Optopol's request for discretionary review of the Düsseldorf Local Division's order of 1 April 2026.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 April 2026, the Court of Appeal stays, on the parties' joint application (Rule 295(d) RoP), the joined appeals UPC_CoA_928/2025 and UPC_CoA_929/2025 brought by FAKRO against the Hamburg Local Division's decision of 5 November 2025 (EP 2 476…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 28 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_47/2025 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_68/2025 (EP 3 281 569), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division sets out, under Rule 332 RoP, how CUP&CINO and ALPINA must restructure…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_869/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refers to the full panel the decision on the objection of late filing (Rule 9.2 RoP) raised by Dai Nippon Printing against Zapp's rejoinder in the revocation…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_140/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division orders the release of the EUR 200,000 security that Curio Bioscience Inc. deposited in the UPC security account under the order of 3 December 2024.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_60/2026), the presiding judge and rapporteur of the Court of Appeal allows, by analogy with Rule 265.1 RoP, the withdrawal of the application for the determination of costs (Rule 151) filed the same day by…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_716/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division corrects of its own motion, under Rule 353 RoP, section V of the operative part of its decision of 16 February 2026 in the dispute between ETRI and Hisense Gorenje…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1902/2025), the Milan Local Division dismisses Cardo Systems' application for an alternative method of service (Rule 275 RoP) of its statement of claim on Shenzhen Ziwu Chuangxin Technology and Resosport, based in mainland China and…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_685/2024 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_157/2025, the Hamburg Local Division holds that Speed Care Mineral's counterclaim succeeds and that Teleflex Life Sciences II's action against the SpeedM haemostatic dressing must…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the President of the Court of First Instance dismisses the application by Esko-Software and Esko-Graphics to change the language of the infringement action brought against them by In(k)control before the Brussels Local Division from…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1332/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division grants, without hearing the respondents, fiskaly's application for inspection and preservation of evidence concerning the "Swissbit Cloud-TSE 2" service of SwissBit AG and Swissbit Germany AG (EP 4 285 308).
Read the analysisBy order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_917/2025), the Court of Appeal sets aside the Paris Local Division order of 21 November 2025, which had refused Merz’s application for provisional measures as out of time, and prohibits Viatris Santé, in France and until…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_305/2026), The Hague Local Division dismisses Stratasys' application for provisional measures against Bambulab under EP 2 964 450, on an additive manufacturing method using purge towers, directed at BambuLab H2C 3D printers.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_57/2026), the Court of Appeal refuses suspensive effect for Polytechnik's appeal against the Copenhagen Local Division's order of 10 April 2026 requiring it, under penalty, to produce drawings and manuals of its furnaces to Dall…
Read the analysisIn a decision pronounced on 23 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_559/2024 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_106/2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division holds that the counterclaim is unfounded and that Quantificare's action against Canfield Scientific and others, directed at the "Vectra…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2026, Panel 2 of the Munich Local Division corrects, on the ground of clerical error, its order of 23 April 2026 in the infringement action brought by Advanced Standard Communication LLC against XIAOMI Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed, at MFCI's request and with the express consent of all other parties, the infringement action brought by 3V Sigma and 3V Chimica Porto Marghera against A.G.A., A.C.E.F.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 22 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_461/2025), the Paris Central Division, ruling on the revocation action brought by Huntsman (Europe) and Huntsman Holland against BASF's EP 1 516 720, on a composite element containing a polyurethane adhesion promoter, holds that the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 21 April 2026, the Milan Local Division ruled on Dainese's infringement action against Alpinestars S.p.A., Alpinestars Research and Motocard Bike, and on the counterclaims for revocation, concerning EP 4 072 364 (an inflatable protective device of the airbag…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1291/2026), made without hearing the respondents, the Mannheim Local Division prohibits Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Hangzhou Geely New Energy Vehicle Sales from pursuing before the Chinese courts an application for a worldwide 'interim licence'…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1103/2026), made without hearing the defendant, the single judge of The Hague Local Division authorises Essity Hygiene and Health to carry out, at WEPA Nederland's premises, a detailed description, the taking of samples and the…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_901/2025), the Court of Appeal holds admissible and well founded the appeal brought by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. against the order of The Hague Local Division of 22 October 2025, which had refused its application for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_49/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal grants Guardant Health leave to appeal the Paris Local Division's order of 16 March 2026, which had ordered it to pay EUR 600,000 in representation costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_54/2026), the Court of Appeal rejects the requests of Belkin International Inc., Belkin B.V. and Belkin Limited for an extension of the time limit to provide the information required by Rule 225(e) or, in the alternative,…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 April 2026 in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_138/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_522/2025), the Paris Local Division revokes in its entirety, for France, Michelin's EP 2 323 858 B1 on a variable surface area tyre tread, and…
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits delivered on 16 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_779/2024), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Brita's indirect infringement action against Wessper, a Polish maker of 'AquaMax' filter cartridges for Brita's 'PerfectFit' jugs, under EP 1 748 830…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 April 2026, issued in Italian in proceedings UPC_CFI_703/2025 and UPC_CFI_1757/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division grants Prinoth a thirty-day extension, to 27 May 2026, of the time limit for its next written pleading in its…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 April 2026 in the joined infringement action (UPC_CFI_819/2024) and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_414/2025), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Corning's EP 3 296 274 B1, concerning a downdraw process for producing alkali-free glass sheets for LCD substrates.
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 (UPC_CoA_48/2026), the Court of Appeal rejects La Siddhi Consultancy's application for suspensive effect against the Milan Central Division's order of 13 March 2026, which required it to provide EUR 75,000 security for costs in its…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1612/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division classifies as confidential technical information on a defendant's process, contained in the statement of defence and exhibit ES5, in Umicore's infringement action on EP 4 087 952…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2246/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division grants the parties’ joint request in the infringement action brought by Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2070/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rules on the preliminary objection to international jurisdiction raised by three BYD group companies in BMS Innovations' infringement action on EP 2 937 706.
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division orders the proprietor, Establishment Labs, to produce in part evidence on its own earlier 'Motiva SilkSurface' breast implant, which the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_858/2025), the Lisbon Local Division finds under Rule 360 that Boehringer Ingelheim's main action against Zentiva Portugal, brought after provisional measures were granted on appeal against a generic nintedanib product, has become devoid of purpose…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 April 2026, issued after the interim conference (Rule 105.5), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepares the oral hearing in Maxell’s infringement action against four Samsung companies on EP 2 061 230 and in the counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_301/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division allows Orange to file a further written response on the FRAND defence set out by HMD Global in the second part of its rejoinder, in the infringement…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1110/2025 and UPC_CFI_1111/2025), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division assesses the costs owed by Seoul Viosys to expert e-Commerce and expert klein following the Court of Appeal's judgment of 2 October 2025, which had set…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_480/2025), the Milan Central Division revokes in its entirety, for all UPC Contracting Member States, Flexicare's unitary patent EP 4 185 356 on a nasal cannula, in a revocation action brought by Fisher & Paykel…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1594/2025), made after an inter partes exchange, the Paris Local Division dismisses SharkNinja's application for provisional measures against four SEB group companies concerning the Cookeo Infinity multicookers, under EP 3 689 198 as in force…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1477/2025), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division sets at EUR 50,450.52 the appeal costs owed by Seoul Viosys to expert e-Commerce and expert klein, after the Court of Appeal dismissed, on 5 November 2025, Seoul…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 8 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_280/2025), the Munich Central Division dismisses the revocation action brought by WIRPLAST Więcek Spółka Jawna against VILPE's EP 2 649 380 B1, concerning an accessory for an exhaust ventilation pipe with an integrated circular spirit…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division grants the request of the four Ericsson defendants to align their time limits in the infringement action brought by Shenzhen Transsion Holdings on EP 4 123 910 (UPC_CFI_850/2026).
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the Court of Appeal orders Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, proprietor of EP 2 671 173, which the Paris Central Division revoked in its entirety, to provide Microsoft with security of EUR 600,000 for the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2255/2025), made after an inter partes hearing, the Hamburg Local Division grants Dyson provisional measures against four Dreame group companies under EP 3 119 235, concerning a hand-held hair care attachment, targeting the 'Dreame Dazzle'…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the President of the Court of First Instance grants the application of Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and Orope Germany, defendants in the infringement action brought by Koninklijke KPN on EP 3 349 412 before the Düsseldorf…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal dismisses the request for simultaneous French/English interpretation made by the Bosch companies, respondents in Valeo Systèmes d’essuyage’s joined appeals (UPC_CoA_4/2026 and UPC_CoA_13/2026) against the orders of the Paris Central…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_642/2025), the full panel of the Munich Local Division rejects ScanBelt's second application to postpone the oral hearing set for 8 December 2026 in Laitram's infringement action (EP 3 251 983), and refuses leave to…
Read the analysisBy a so-called preliminary order dated 2 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division sets out his proposed summary of the case management hearing of 23 February 2026 in Dolby International’s infringement action on EP 3 079 153 against CPYou…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_714/2024 and UPC_CFI_155/2025, the Munich Local Division refuses to stay the case pending the opposition against EP 3 685 783, even though the EPO Opposition Division revoked the patent after…
Read the analysisIn an order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1920/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division refuses to dismiss at the outset, under Rule 361 RoP, Illumina's infringement action against Element Biosciences (EP 3 714 978), whose Statement of claim had omitted the…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1034/2025 and UPC_CFI_931/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division deals with Micron's request under Rule 262A RoP to protect its estimated 2026 gross profit from direct sales of the attacked products in Germany and France (EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 31 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division sets 11 June 2026 as the single deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation in Nixu FL IP Protection's…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_12/2026), the Court of Appeal sets aside the orders of the Mannheim Local Division of 27 November 2025 and 16 January 2026 and allows Amazon to take notes of the audio recording of a hearing…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 March 2026, the Court of Appeal rules on the appeal of Sinocare and A. Menarini Diagnostics against the order of The Hague Local Division of 17 October 2025, which, at the request of Abbott Diabetes Care, had granted…
Read the analysisBy decision of 30 March 2026, the Paris Central Division grants Emporia UK and Ireland’s revocation action against Seoul Viosys and revokes EP 3 926 698 B1, concerning a light-emitting diode, to the extent of claims 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_302/2025 and UPC_CoA_305/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal dismisses Rematec's request to refer its cost-fixing application to the Mannheim Local Division with an instruction that the Court of Appeal filing date count as…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 March 2026 in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_409/2025, UPC_CoA_410/2025 and UPC_CoA_420/2025, the Court of Appeal sets aside the two orders of 11 March 2025 in which the Mannheim Local Division had found infringement of EP 2 028 981…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits the withdrawal, agreed by both sides before the close of the written procedure, of Nokia Technologies’ infringement action on EP 4 250 732 against VIMN Germany and eight…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_898/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal (Judges Voß, presiding and judge rapporteur, van den Broek, Sabotier, and technically qualified Judges Elmeros and Schenkl) dismissed ONWARD Medical's appeal against the Munich Local Division's refusal of provisional measures…
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