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In a decision of 5 February 2026, given in the infringement action on EP 1 969 839 (UPC_CFI_666/2024) and proceedings UPC_CFI_199/2025, the Hague Local Division allowed the withdrawals that followed the settlement between Adeia Guides Inc.
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal holds inadmissible the appeal by EOFlow Co., Ltd. against the order of the Milan Central Division of 4 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1167/2025), which, at the request of Insulet Corporation, had imposed penalty payments of EUR 150,000 for non-compliance with…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_891/2025), the Court of Appeal dismissed Centripetal Limited's appeal against the Mannheim Local Division's order of 2 October 2025 which, on Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s request for review, had revoked the saisie order based on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismissed the request by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd and Adobe Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 3 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_8/2025), given in Italian by the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, the EUR 19,000 security that Bhagat Textile Engineers had deposited for the costs of Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co KG was released and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_658/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division fixed the costs Curio Bioscience must reimburse to 10x Genomics for the provisional measures proceedings and the main action on EP 2 697 391, following the decision of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that publishing on the Court's website its provisional measures order of 19 December 2025, granted to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_657/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered 10x Genomics, Inc. to reimburse EUR 180,000 in costs to Curio Bioscience Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_449/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that publishing on the Court's website its provisional measures order of 28 November 2025, granted to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 January 2026 (UPC_CoA_931/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal, sitting as standing judge, closed the proceedings on the request for discretionary review (Rule 220.3) filed by Alpinestars S.p.A.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 28 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_315/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Labrador Diagnostics' infringement action against six bioMérieux group companies, based on unitary patent EP 3 756 767 on modular point-of-care devices and directed at the VIDAS 3 instrument and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 January 2026 issued after the interim conference (UPC_CFI_727/2024 and UPC_CFI_493/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set the framework for the oral hearing in Agathon v Intercom and KNARR Vertriebs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_999/2025), the panel of the Paris Central Division upheld on review the dismissal of Nanoval's preliminary objection to ALD France's revocation action against EP 3 083 107.
Read the analysisAccess by an employee of the opposing party is necessary where the confidential licence agreements are those on which the patent holder bases its arguments on FRAND terms, a central aspect of the case (para.
Read the analysisBeing an employee of a party is not in itself a ground for refusing access to highly confidential information (para. 27). Excluding employees would severely restrict the party’s freedom to choose who represents it and would compromise its right to an effective…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 26 January 2026, the President of the Court of Appeal dismissed a European Patent Attorney's petition for review of the Registrar's decision of 15 September 2025 refusing to enter him on the list of UPC representatives.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1064/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of Nordmeccanica, defendant to Bobst Manchester's infringement action before the Munich Local Division (EP 3 067 437, vacuum coating method), and changed the…
Read the analysisIn the appeal brought by Merz Pharmaceuticals LLC, Merz Therapeutics GmbH and Merz Pharma France against the order of the Paris Local Division of 21 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2025), which had refused their application for provisional measures against Viatris Santé based on French…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_2045/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of six Amazon companies, defendants to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings' infringement action before the Mannheim Local Division (EP 2 803 191, image coding),…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1325/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division released to Van Loon Beheer Nederland the unredacted detailed description drawn up by the expert during the inspection of Inverquark's stand at the Aquanale trade fair in Cologne (EP 3…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_808/2025), the Paris Local Division dismissed Guardant Health's application for provisional measures against four Sophia Genetics companies concerning the "MSK-ACCESS powered with SOPHiA DDM" liquid biopsy test.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1506/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance changed the language of Nagravision's infringement action against three Pinterest companies before the Munich Local Division from German to English, the language of EP 3 965…
Read the analysisNon-public details of licence negotiations constitute confidential information within the meaning of Rule 262A, and protection may be extended in advance to all future pleadings relating to those negotiations, to avoid repeated orders, each party retaining the option to seek enhanced protection…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1048/2025), The Hague Local Division allowed BTL Medizintechnik to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 146 335 against Lexter Microelectronic Engineering Systems following a settlement, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CoA_935/2025), the Court of Appeal refused suspensive effect for the appeal against The Hague Local Division's default decision of 21 October 2025, which found that the "Cayene" mushroom strain infringed Amycel's EP 1 993 350.
Read the analysisIn its decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_702/2024 and UPC_CFI_369/2025), the Paris Local Division upholds, as limited, IMC Créations’ unitary patent EP 4 153 830 (lock with a slider and a base plate with a recess), dismisses Mul-T-Lock France’s counterclaim for revocation…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_480/2025), the Milan Central Division refused to admit auxiliary requests 2A to 13A, filed "as a mere precaution" by Flexicare, proprietor of EP 4 185 356, in its rejoinder in Fisher & Paykel Healthcare's revocation…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 15 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_100/2024 and the joined counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_411/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed both claims in the dispute between Ona Patents and Google Ireland and Google Commerce over EP 2 263 098,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025), the Brussels Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of thirteen GC Aesthetics group companies, sued by Establishment Labs for infringement of EP 3 107 487 in thirteen countries including Ireland, Spain, Norway, Switzerland and…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_628/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_125/2025, the Munich Local Division dismissed Emboline's action against AorticLab based on EP 2 129 425 (embolic protection device), directed at the "FLOWer" device.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 January 2026, the full panel of the Munich Local Division granted Heraeus Electronics re-establishment of rights in the one-month period under Rule 151.1 for starting cost-assessment proceedings, following the decision on the merits of 10 October 2025…
Read the analysisA licence agreement concluded with a third party is classified as highly confidential information, access being reserved to three designated persons of the claimant, its economic expert and that expert’s team, and the representatives registered in the parallel proceedings, exhaustively listed.
Read the analysisBy a default decision of 12 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_350/2025), the Paris Central Division, at the request of WhiteWater West Industries, partially revoked American Wave Machines' EP 2 728 089 to the extent of claim 1.
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal allows Juul Labs International, Inc. to withdraw its appeal (UPC_CoA_5/2025) against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 5 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_309/2023), which had revoked EP 3 498 115 at the request of NJOY Netherlands B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 January 2026 (UPC_CoA_237/2025), the Court of Appeal permitted Juul Labs to withdraw its appeal against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 17 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_316/2023), which had revoked EP 3 430 921 for eight states at…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 January 2026 (UPC_CoA_328/2025), the Court of Appeal permitted Juul Labs to withdraw its appeal against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 7 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_314/2023), which had revoked EP 3 504 990 for eight states at…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal allows VMR Products LLC to withdraw its appeal against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 22 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_310/2023), which had partially revoked EP 3 613 453 at the request of NJOY Netherlands B.V., the patent…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_377/2025 and UPC_CFI_702/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division rejected Primetals Technologies Austria's request under Art.
Read the analysisRuling on Microsoft Corporation’s counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_433/2024), the Paris Central Division revokes in its entirety European patent EP 2 671 173 held by Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy, which concerns the ranking of search results according to the location…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 January 2026 (UPC_CoA_2/2026), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal dismissed the request for discretionary review (Rule 220.3) filed by six Angelalign companies against the Düsseldorf Local Division's order of 16 December 2025.
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_730/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division assessed the costs that Nera Innovations must reimburse to the Xiaomi companies for the unsuccessful appeal on service of the statement of claim (UPC_CoA_205/2024).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1771/2025), the standing judge of the Paris Central Division dismissed PAPST LICENSING's application against the EPO decision of 10 November 2025 refusing unitary effect for EP 3 327 608.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_648/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 3258692, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal dismisses VMR Products LLC’s appeal against the decision of the Paris Central Division of 27 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_308/2023), which had revoked in its entirety, at the request of NJOY Netherlands B.V., EP 3 456 214 for a vaporizer.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_723/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division refused the Angelalign defendants leave to appeal the order of 16 December 2025, which had disregarded late non-infringement arguments in their rejoinder and refused further written pleadings, in the provisional…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 December 2025 (UPC_CoA_936/2025), the President of the Court of Appeal, sitting as standing judge in a case of extreme urgency under Rule 223.4 RoP, dismissed five Amazon companies' request for suspensive effect against the Mannheim Local Division's order…
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's request for simultaneous interpretation from English into Japanese at the oral hearing in its action…
Read the analysisThe standing judge of the Court of Appeal refuses Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy leave to appeal the decision of 6 November 2025 in which the Paris Central Division (UPC_CFI_724/2025) set at EUR 350,000 the costs owed to Microsoft Corporation…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal allows Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited to withdraw their application for rehearing (Rule 245 RoP) of an order of the Court of Appeal of 3 March 2025, issued in proceedings UPC_CoA_523/2024 against Syngenta Limited (EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 057 321 brought by NEC against Shenzhen Transsion and seven other defendants, following a settlement reached before the…
Read the analysisIn ZTE Corporation’s action for infringement of EP 3 905 730 against six Samsung group companies (UPC_CFI_850/2024), coupled with a FRAND counterclaim by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 2 645 714, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CoA_691/2025), the Court of Appeal, on the parties' joint request, permitted Lindal Dispenser to withdraw its appeal against the Paris Central Division decision of 29 May 2025 dismissing its revocation action against Rocep-Lusol Holdings (UPC_CFI_202/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_683/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 471 419 brought by Huawei Technologies against Shenzhen Transsion and five other defendants, following a settlement reached before…
Read the analysisSeised by Valeo Systèmes d’Essuyage of an action for infringement of EP 2 671 766 against six Bosch group companies (UPC_CFI_809/2025), the Paris Central Division upholds the preliminary objection of four of them, which are established in Contracting Member States.
Read the analysisBy decision of 22 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_407/2024 and UPC_CFI_686/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted, with each side's consent, the withdrawal of Atlas Global Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 353 901 against three Vantiva companies and of the counterclaim for revocation, and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_936/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, on review, confirmed its ex parte order of 30 September 2025 prohibiting the Amazon companies from seeking an interim licence over InterDigital's portfolio before the UK High Court, or any…
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, sitting alone, grants Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP access to Insulet Corporation’s Statement of Appeal and to a redacted version of EOFLow Co., Ltd.’s Statement of Response in appeal UPC_CoA_768/2024 (EP 4 201 327), decided…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 22 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_314/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_568/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted the mutual withdrawal by Atlas Global Technologies and the Vantiva companies, each with the other side's consent, concerning EP 3186937,…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1598/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered full disclosure to LiNA Medical and its representatives of the expert's detailed description following evidence preservation and inspection measures carried out at Schultz Medical (UK)'s booth at…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_660/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_134/2025, the Mannheim Local Division revoked in full, for France and Germany, Centripetal's patent EP 3 652 914 on accelerating cyberanalysis workflows, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025, made in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_622/2025 and UPC_CoA_623/2025, the Court of Appeal ordered Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, an appellant based in China, to provide security of EUR 75,000 per appeal in favour of Grundfos…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1600/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered full disclosure to LiNA Medical and its representatives of the expert's detailed description following evidence preservation and inspection measures carried out at Tonglu Qianyan Medtech's booth at…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal disposes, under Rule 360 RoP, of the procedural appeal brought by Viatris Santé against the order of the Paris Local Division of 29 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2025), which had disregarded late-filed exhibits in provisional measures proceedings brought by Merz…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted provisional measures against Shenzhen Moan Technology, the second defendant, in favour of Hewlett-Packard Development Company on the basis of claim 13 of EP 3 835 965 (logic circuitry for…
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, sitting alone, rejects the request of Docket Navigator, which runs a patent litigation tracking platform, for access to the written pleadings and evidence in appeal UPC_CoA_523/2024 between Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_834/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on Roborock (HK)'s request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP, revoked in full and with retroactive effect the ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence granted to Ecovacs Robotics…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_437/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_681/2024, the Munich Local Division revoked GXD-Bio's patent EP 3 346 403 for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_494/2025 and UPC_CFI_495/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division ruled on HMD Global's request for production of licences in support of its FRAND defence, in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's actions based on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 December 2025, given in revocation action UPC_CFI_104/2025 and counterclaim for infringement UPC_CFI_364/2025 concerning EP 3 812 870, the Paris Central Division dismissed IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland's request for EUR 500,000 security for costs from Belparts Group.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_716/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_205/2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the counterclaim by Bekaert Combustion Technology and NV Bekaert against Polidoro's patent EP 2 037 175 (premixed burner, especially for…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 December 2025, The Hague Local Division (presiding judge and judge-rapporteur sitting alone) refused a third party's request for access to the file of provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_830/2025, brought by Abbott Diabetes Care against MicroTech Medical (Hangzhou) and…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal orders, without hearing TP-Link, that Huawei’s appeals have suspensive effect for the duration of the proceedings and that TP-Link is not to have access to the pleadings covered by the order of the Munich Local Division of 28…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division revokes Sanofi’s European patent EP 2 493 466 in its entirety. The patent covers cabazitaxel in combination with prednisone or prednisolone for treating metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-based regimen.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the Munich Local Division ordered ASUS Technology Licensing, a claimant seated in Taiwan, to provide EUR 200,000 security for costs within six weeks in its infringement action on EP 3 346 616 against Guangdong OPPO…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, acting on delegation from the panel, declared that the steps taken to serve Cardo Systems' statement of claim (EP 4 240 194) on Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology amount…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 December 2025 made by Judge-rapporteur Schumacher after the interim conference of 4 December (Rule 105.5), in UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024 between Canon and Katun, the Düsseldorf Local Division required English translations of all exhibits and a preliminary estimate…
Read the analysisIn Maxell’s infringement action against Samsung on EP 2 061 230 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_251/2025 and UPC_CFI_769/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division refuses Samsung a six-week extension of its time limit and admits the 44 auxiliary requests filed…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1849/2025), made without hearing the defendants, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Topsoe A/S, before bringing any action on the merits, to have inspected an electrically heated steam reforming hydrogen plant found at the site of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, made without hearing the respondent four days after the application was filed, the Hamburg Local Division prohibited the Chinese manufacturer Ningbo Blue Pluser Appliance from marketing in fourteen States filter cartridges that fall within Brita's…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 December 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the withdrawal of Headwater Research's infringement action against Apple and group companies (EP 3 107 243 B1) and of the counterclaim for revocation, each with the other side's consent, and…
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