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In a decision of 27 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1390/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits, with the consent of the nine Warner Bros. Discovery defendants, the withdrawal of Nokia's infringement action (EP 4 250 732), declares the proceedings closed and orders…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1234/2025), the Munich Local Division upholds its judge-rapporteur's decision of 27 January 2026 granting the law firm Quinn Emanuel partial, redacted access to the pleadings in Huawei v MediaTek (UPC_CFI_248/2025 and UPC_CFI_668/2025, EP 3 905…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 25 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2107/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH to withdraw their infringement action against A.
Read the analysisBy decision of 25 March 2026, the Court of Appeal permits, with Amgen’s consent, the withdrawal of the applications for rehearing filed by Sanofi and Regeneron against the decision of 25 November 2025 that had set aside the revocation of EP 3…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_641/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal allowed Sanofi Biotechnology SAS and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. to withdraw their appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division decision of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_505/2023, EP 3 536 712), which dismissed…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 15 June 2026, for all defendants, the Rule 23 RoP time limit for filing the statement of defence in the infringement action brought by 3V Sigma…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_44/2026), the Court of Appeal rejects ALPINA Coffee Systems' application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division's decision of 18 March 2026, which had largely upheld CUP&CINO's infringement action (EP 3…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_646/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal allowed Amgen N.V. and six other Amgen companies to withdraw their appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division decision of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_505/2023, EP 3 536 712), insofar as…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division sets 15 June 2026 as the Rule 23 RoP deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_935/2025), the Court of Appeal declares inadmissible the second application for suspensive effect filed by the appellant, the defendant found liable by default by The Hague Local Division on 21 October 2025 for infringing Amycel's…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1049/2025), the Hamburg Local Division orders a refund to BTL Medizintechnik of 60% of the court fees for its infringement action against Lexter (EP 4 426 414), the withdrawal of which had been permitted on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2296/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejects the preliminary objection of Fives ECL, proprietor of EP 1 740 740, which argued lack of standing and res judicata based on German decisions against REEL…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_649/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permits, with the defendant's consent, the withdrawal of Versah's infringement action against Argimiro Antonio Hernandez Suarez (EP 2 919 672), declares the proceedings closed, makes no costs decision following a…
Read the analysisIn an order of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the panel of the Paris Local Division refused the request by Robert Bosch d.o.o. Beograd and five other Bosch group companies to review the judge-rapporteur's order of 17 February 2026,…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1849/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, grants HyGear's request and replaces German with English, the language of EP 3 802 413, in the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_770/2024 and UPC_CFI_556/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, after consulting the panel, revisited the adversarial examination of the seized tyre samples planned for the oral hearing: the tyres will be examined without being…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_717/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, acting through the judge-rapporteur, permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action on EP 3 057 321 against Hisense Gorenje Germany and five other companies, which consented, and declared the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_519/2024, with counterclaim UPC_CFI_64/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that ALPINA Coffee Systems infringes claim 2 of CUP&CINO's EP 3 398 487 (producing milk froth at adjustable temperature) with the 'ALPINA Latte Perfetto Duo' frother,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 March 2026, made in the infringement action on EP 3 107 487 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the related counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division ordered Establishment Labs, a Costa Rican company, to provide security of EUR 600,000…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_930/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal dismissed EOFlow Co., Ltd.'s appeal against the Milan Central Division order of 4 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1167/2025), which had refused to treat as confidential under Rule 262.2 business information disclosed…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026, given in German in UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division upholds Dolby International AB's EP 3 605 534, presented as essential to the Opus audio codec, and finds it infringed by the Grundig smart…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026, the Paris Central Division ruled on Veolia Propreté's revocation action (UPC_CFI_417/2025) and on the joined counterclaims for revocation of Valinea Energie and Maguin (UPC_CFI_509/2025 and UPC_CFI_528/2025) against Tiru's EP 3 178 578 (waste incineration plant…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik's infringement action against IPG Laser concerning the 'YLS-AMB' fibre lasers, and on the counterclaim for revocation of claims 1 to 3 of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_904/2025 and UPC_CoA_905/2025), the Court of Appeal dismissed Vivo's appeals against two orders of the Paris Local Division of 30 October 2025 which, in Sun Patent Trust's infringement actions (EP 3 407 524 and EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_3/2026), the Court of Appeal rejected Ecovacs Robotics' appeal against the Düsseldorf Local Division's order of 19 December 2025 which, on Roborock (HK)'s request for review, had revoked the ex parte order for inspection and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_722/2025), the Milan Central Division found that Neurocrine Biosciences' revocation action against Spruce Biosciences' unitary patent EP 3 784 233 had become devoid of purpose following the final revocation of the patent by the EPO,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_927/2025), the Milan Central Division, ordered La Siddhi Consultancy, the UK claimant in the revocation action against unitary patent EP 3 592 333, to provide within six weeks security of EUR 75,000 for the costs…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2216/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 25 May 2026 Kaltek's time limit for lodging its statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation, in Biopsafe's action based on three patents.
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_64/2024 and UPC_CFI_450/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 875 683 concerning an integrated circuit with an on-chip communication…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_65/2024 and UPC_CFI_451/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 552 399 concerning an integrated circuit and a method for…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_934/2025), the UPC Court of Appeal allowed F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH, following a settlement, to withdraw their application for provisional measures based on EP 1 962 668, which the Düsseldorf…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_37/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed the request for discretionary review (Rule 220.3 RoP) filed by the Angelalign companies against the Düsseldorf Local Division's order of 26 February 2026 which, in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refused Hologic's request under Rule 36 RoP to file, by 13 March 2026, brief formal comments on Siemens Healthineers' submissions dated 24 September 2025 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_282/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division largely granted Gowling WLG's request, as a member of the public under Rule 262.1(b) RoP, for access to the pleadings in the provisional measures proceedings between Boehringer…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_789/2025 and UPC_CoA_813/2025), the Court of Appeal, presided over by Klaus Grabinski, referred four questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the dispute between Dyson and Dreame International and Eurep concerning unitary…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_141/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed PR Medical's preliminary objection seeking to have KeyMed's infringement action (EP 2 575 590, 'Detecto.' accessory for diagnostic devices) conducted in Italian rather than English.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_895/2025 and UPC_CoA_896/2025), the Court of Appeal permitted Black Sheep Retail Products, with HL Display's consent, to withdraw its appeal against the Hague Local Division's decision of 10 October 2025 (EP 2 432 351) and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_678/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected Hurom's request to file a further reply after NUC's Statement of Response and cross-appeal, in the appeal against the Paris Local Division decision of 23 May…
Read the analysisIn an order of 3 March 2026 (UPC_CoA_887/2025), the Court of Appeal permitted Washtower, with the agreement of the Bega companies, to withdraw its application for provisional measures at first instance and on appeal, after The Hague Local Division had granted those…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 February 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division invited SZ DJI Technology, first defendant in Irdeto's infringement action based on EP 2 831 787 (UPC_CFI_344/2025), to pay the fee for its counterclaim for revocation within fourteen…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_884/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the UPC Court of Appeal rejected Sibio Technology Limited's request under Rule 36 for a further exchange of written pleadings in its appeal against the Paris Central Division's dismissal of its…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 26 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1235/2025, EP 4 142 215), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division amended his own order of 27 January 2026, which had largely granted the law firm Quinn Emanuel access to the parties' written…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_34/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed as inadmissible EOFlow's request for discretionary review and its auxiliary request for leave to appeal.
Read the analysisIn an order of 25 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_692/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted beMatrix NV provisional measures without hearing the defendant, Yaham Recience Technology, on the basis of EP 3 757 442 B1, which concerns a display module for a temporary exhibition…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 25 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1927/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division summoned the parties to an oral hearing on 22 April 2026 in Ottobock's provisional measures proceedings against BrainPortfolio and BrainRobotics under EP 3 001 984 B1.
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CoA_883/2025 and UPC_CoA_892/2025, the Court of Appeal (Panel 2) rejected Suinno's applications for rehearing of its security for costs order and its default decision of 12 July 2025, which had dismissed the…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_10/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal granted Gowling WLG, a non-party firm, access to ten pleadings and documents in the appeal Sumi Agro v Syngenta (UPC_CoA_523/2024, EP 2 152 073), subject to redaction of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_337/2025), the Munich Central Division held unfounded TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning's EP 3 296 274 B1, which concerns a downdraw process for alkali-free glass sheets fined with tin, in force in France and…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_735/2024) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_224/2025), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser UK's EP 2 951 625 B1, which concerns a fibre optic laser combiner, asserted…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_9/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal partly granted the law firm Gowling WLG access to three written pleadings lodged on appeal in the dispute between Boehringer Ingelheim and Zentiva Portugal concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_829/2024), the Munich Central Division revoked in its entirety International N&H Denmark's EP 2 611 800, which concerns a xylose-rich sugar composition, for Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, at the request of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 February 2026, given in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_26/2025 and UPC_CFI_375/2025), the Vienna Local Division dismissed both Messerle's action and Sabert Corporation Europe's counterclaim concerning EP 3 705 415 B1, which relates to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 February 2026, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_541/2025 and UPC_CFI_1313/2025 concerning EP 3 859 566, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Wizart's request that Leap Tools, a Canadian company with no presence in the UPC territory, provide EUR 300,000 as…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_283/2026), the Paris Local Division partly granted the law firm Gowling WLG access to the file of the provisional measures proceedings between Merz and Viatris Santé (UPC_CFI_697/2025), concerning EP 2 377 536 and supplementary protection…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_889/2025), the Court of Appeal set aside the orders of the Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_114/2025) requiring Syntorr, a Cypriot company and proprietor of EP 3 835 470, to provide EUR 2,000,000 as security for costs…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_19/2026), the Court of Appeal refused suspensive effect to Guardant Health's appeal against the EUR 400,000 interim award of costs made against it by the Paris Local Division on 23 January 2026, after its application…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_890/2025), the Court of Appeal, on discretionary review, set aside the Munich Local Division's orders requiring Syntorr, claimant in an infringement action on EP 2 670 898 against three Arthrex companies, to provide security for costs…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 February 2026, the Mannheim Local Division permitted Corning to withdraw its infringement action based on EP 3 296 274 (UPC_CFI_819/2024) against Hisense Gorenje Germany and Hisense Europe Holding, and those two companies to withdraw their counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy decision of 18 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_744/2025 and UPC_CoA_750/2025, EP 3 167 888), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal permitted Samsung Bioepis to withdraw its applications for leave to appeal the cost decisions issued by the Hamburg Local Division on…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CoA_528/2024 and UPC_CoA_529/2024 (EP 3 666 797), the Court of Appeal rejected Sanofi and Regeneron's request for suspensive effect of their application for rehearing of the decision of 25 November 2025, which…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 in proceedings UPC_CFI_616/2025 and UPC_CFI_1439/2025 (EP 2 590 626), the judge-rapporteur of the Hague Local Division allowed GSK to extend its action against Moderna to the mNEXSPIKE product, dismissed Moderna's application to strike material from the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 February 2026, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_302/2025 and UPC_CoA_305/2025, the Court of Appeal set aside in full the Mannheim Local Division decision of 31 January 2025, which had revoked Rematec's EP 2 548 648, concerning a…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed the preliminary objections of six Bosch group companies, sued for infringement by Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage, which challenged the Division's internal competence under Article…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal dismisses Huawei’s appeals against the orders of the Munich Local Division of 28 November 2025 granting TP-Link access to written pleadings in the closed actions between Huawei and Netgear concerning the patent asserted against TP-Link (paras.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_937/2025 and UPC_CoA_938/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal refused the bioMérieux companies, appealing the Milan Central Division decision of 23 October 2025 maintaining Labrador Diagnostics' EP 3 756 767 in amended form, both…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_716/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to withdraw its infringement action against Hisense Gorenje Germany GmbH and five other companies following a settlement, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 February 2026, made in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_770/2024) and the revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_556/2025) between Pirelli Tyre s.p.a.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_575/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, on an application for panel review under Rule 333, upheld the rejection of the preliminary objections raised by Sovex Systems B.V.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 February 2026, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (EP 3 401 335 B1), Judge Granata, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, ordered the Registry to release to Genentech and F.
Read the analysisBy order of 12 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_723/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Thom, Judge Visser as judge rapporteur and technically qualified Judge Papa), after an inter partes hearing, granted Align Technology's application for provisional measures based on unitary patent…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal declares admissible the appeal lodged by Valeo Systèmes d’Essuyage under Rule 220.2 RoP against the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division of 23 December 2025.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_274/2023), given in German, the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Fives ECL SAS's claim for EUR 6,500,000 in damages against REEL GmbH, whose liability for infringing EP 1 740 740 had been finally established by the…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division upholds the infringement action brought by Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Belkin International, Inc., Belkin B.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1648/2025), given in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited to withdraw, before the written procedure closed, its action for infringement of EP 1 954 091 brought on 19 November…
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 11 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_351/2024) and the joined revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_595/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division held Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's EP 3 686 683, on a developer replenishing container, valid and infringed…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026, made in the infringement action on EP 3 065 184 (UPC_CFI_336/2024) and the two joined revocation counterclaims (UPC_CFI_605/2024 and UPC_CFI_607/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the withdrawals that followed a settlement between Maxeon Solar Pte.
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1738/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed the cost application brought by AWM s.r.l. and Schnell s.p.a. against Progress Maschinen & Automation AG until the Court of Appeal rules on the appeal against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_8/2026), given in German by a standing judge, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of PAPST LICENSING GmbH & Co. KG against the Paris Central Division's decision upholding the EPO's refusal to register unitary…
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