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In an order of 9 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division dismissed Nanoval's preliminary objection to ALD France's revocation action against EP 3 083 107 B1, together with its request for a stay.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 December 2025 (UPC_CoA_12/2025, APL_366/2025), the Court of Appeal set aside the order that Bhagat Textile Engineers pay Oerlikon Textile EUR 15,000 in interim damages for reputational harm, and otherwise dismissed the appeal.
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, The Hague Local Division held inadmissible, and in the alternative dismissed, the defendant's application to set aside the default decision of 21 October 2025 in Amycel's infringement action (EP 1 993 350 B2).
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division stayed, at the parties' joint request, cost proceedings UPC_CFI_775/2025, 776/2025 and 777/2025 between Edwards Lifesciences and the Meril group (EP 3 769 722) pending the decision of the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025, given by the full panel after remittal by the Court of Appeal, the Copenhagen Local Division ordered HGSystem ApS, HGSystem Holding ApS, Infotech Concept ApS and Infotech Holding ApS jointly to pay the Court a…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 December 2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Keysight Technologies Deutschland (UPC_CFI_414/2024) based on EP 3 821 580 B1 on network protection.
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_712/2025), given after a hearing, the Düsseldorf Local Division largely granted the application for provisional measures by F.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Centripetal's request to reopen the oral hearing in its infringement action on EP 3 821 580 against Keysight Technologies, together with its auxiliary request for an expert to examine the…
Read the analysisIn an order dated 4 December 2025 and lodged on 5 December, the Milan Local Division dismissed the request by A.G.A. and A.C.E.F. to review the ex parte order for preservation of evidence of 19 May 2025 granted to 3V Sigma, which…
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division closes the proceedings on Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenged its territorial competence (Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA) in BARCO’s infringement action on EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_806/2025).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 4 December 2025, the Brussels Local Division allowed CooperSurgical to withdraw its infringement action (EP 3 302 292 B1), brought while an EPO opposition was pending, and ordered it to pay the defendants' costs: EUR 105,757.90 to European…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 4 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_307/2025, EP 2 892 442 B1), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set the oral hearing of Aesculap's action against Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and other defendants for 17…
Read the analysisThe Milan Central Division ordered EOFLOW to pay a penalty of EUR 150,000 for violating the preliminary injunction granted by the Court of Appeal on 30 April 2025, on the basis of evidence that EOFLOW had exported 11,520 insulin pump devices to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 December 2025 (UPC_CoA_894/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal refused Windhager Handelsgesellschaft's application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the Mannheim Local Division decision of 12 September 2025, which had largely upheld bellissa HAAS's infringement…
Read the analysisIn a Rule 105.5 order of 1 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division recorded the decisions taken at the interim conference of 28 November 2025 in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning concerning EP 3 296 274.
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal upholds the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 18 August 2025, which had changed the language of the infringement proceedings brought by Innovative Sonic Corporation against OPPO and eight other companies before the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_425/2024 and UPC_CFI_751/2024, the Munich Local Division held EP 2 787 541 (solar cell with a tunnelling layer, TOPCon technology) valid and infringed by the Chint/Astronergy group's ASTRO N modules in Germany,…
Read the analysisIn the infringement action brought by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA against fifteen Moderna group companies (UPC_CFI_619/2025), The Hague Local Division orders of its own motion, under Rule 302.1 RoP, that the single counterclaim for revocation directed at EP 4 066 856 and EP…
Read the analysisThe Court of Appeal dismisses Yealink’s cross-appeal (UPC_CoA_376/2025), which challenged the territorial competence of the Brussels Local Division, and, in the same order, the main appeal of Barco N.V.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 November 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division largely granted Hewlett-Packard Development Company's application for provisional measures against Zhuhai ouguan Electronic Technology, based on EP 2 826 630 and EP 3 530 469 (ink cartridges).
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025, made in provisional measures proceedings brought by InterDigital against Amazon, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the defendants' representatives to listen to the recording of the hearing of 14 November 2025 at the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed all preliminary objections raised by Adobe, OpenAI, Truepic, Joint Development Foundation Projects and C2PA in KEEEX's infringement action based on EP 2 949 070.
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 November 2025, the Milan Central Division, hearing Pari Pharma’s revocation action against Koninklijke Philips’ EP 3 397 329 B1 (air-flow in a nebulizer head), holds claim 1 as granted to lack novelty but maintains the patent as amended…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025 (UPC_CoA_904/2025 and UPC_CoA_905/2025), the Court of Appeal rejected Vivo's request to stay the proceedings brought by Sun Patent Trust before the Paris Local Division, or alternatively to extend the deadline for the statement of defence,…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 November 2025, the Court of Appeal permits STRABAG to withdraw its appeal against the Vienna Local Division’s decision of 15 January 2025 (EP 2 643 717), following a settlement with SWARCO, and declares proceedings UPC_CoA_70/2025 closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division stays Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenges the division’s territorial competence under Art.
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 November 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division corrected the operative part of its order of 25 November 2025 on Topsoe's application for inspection and preservation of evidence against SYPOX and Josef Kerner Energiewirtschafts, based on EP 3 802…
Read the analysisBy decision of 25 November 2025, given in the joined appeals UPC_CoA_528/2024 and UPC_CoA_529/2024, the Court of Appeal set aside the decisions of the Munich Central Division of 16 July 2024, which had revoked Amgen’s EP 3 666 797 (antibodies against PCSK9)…
Read the analysisIn its decision of 25 November 2025, the Court of Appeal rules on all the appeals between the Meril companies and Edwards Lifesciences concerning EP 3 646 825 (transcatheter prosthetic heart valve with a frame of hexagonal cells).
Read the analysisBy order of 24 November 2025, the standing judge of the Court of Appeal rejects Suinno’s application for suspensive effect, made together with its application for leave to appeal the Paris Central Division’s decision of 6 November 2025 fixing the costs payable…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 November 2025 made after the interim conference, Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Central Division set the framework for the hearing in revocation action UPC_CFI_829/2024 brought by UPM-Kymmene Oyj against International N&H Denmark ApS, substituted for Virdia Inc.,…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 November 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's request for a further exchange of written pleadings against Katun and General Plastic Industrial (EP 3 686…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 20 November 2025, the Munich Central Division ruled on BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners' revocation action against EP 4 019 790, a unitary patent held by Raimund Beck Nageltechnik for a nail made predominantly of lignocellulosic material for use in…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Bekaert Binjiang Steel Cord of the expert report drawn up after the inspection carried out on 11 November 2024 at the premises of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_87/2025 and UPC_CFI_488/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings to respond, by 20 November 2025, to the non-infringement and FRAND arguments raised by The Walt Disney Company…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 November 2025, given in Italian, the Milan Local Division held by default that Gastroteam Abbe and the sole trader Marciuliano Attrezzature infringe EP 3 691 454, Morello Forni's unitary patent for a method and machine for shaping…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 November 2025, made without hearing the other side, the Düsseldorf Local Division granted LiNA Medical measures to preserve evidence and for inspection concerning the "disposable morcellator" exhibited by Tonglu Qianyan Medtech at its MEDICA trade fair booth,…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 November 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_187/2024 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_507/2024, the Hague Local Division held Advanced Cell Diagnostics' EP 1 910 572 and EP 2 500 439 (multiplex in situ hybridisation) valid, but found no infringement by…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 November 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request by TP-Link Systems and the other defendants to replace German with English, the language of grant, in the infringement action brought by Huawei before…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1598/2025), made without hearing the defendant the day after the application was filed, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, rapporteur, Thom and Gillet) ordered an inspection and preservation of evidence at Schultz Medical (UK)'s booth at…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_885/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division released to OTEC Präzisionsfinish and its representatives the unredacted description prepared by the expert after the inspection carried out at STEROS GPA INNOVATIVE's stand at the EMO…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_858/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division rejected Zentiva Portugal's preliminary objection in the infringement action brought by Boehringer Ingelheim International on the basis of EP 1 830 843 (nintedanib).
Read the analysisBy decision of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_541/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Leap Tools to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 3 859 566 against Wizart LLC only, that company being unreachable and described as non-existent.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 November 2025, made without hearing the other side, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Komax Holding to have an expert inspect Jiangsu BOZHIWANG Automation Equipment's "BZW-3005" machine at the Productronica fair in Munich, with regard to claims 1,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_321/2025), the Hague Local Division granted, with the defendants' consent, AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals' withdrawal of its action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 against Troy Chemical and five other companies, following a stay…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 November 2025, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 (preservation of evidence) and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (inspection), the Brussels Local Division largely dismissed the request for review filed by Organon Heist and N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 November 2025, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_837/2024, UPC_CFI_349/2025 and UPC_CFI_394/2025 (EP 2 728 089), the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the request by Surftown, WhiteWater Era, WhiteWater West Industries and Endless Surf for review…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_879/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed Faro Technologies to withdraw its application for the assessment of costs against Blankenhorn, following proceedings UPC_CFI_500/2025 (EP 4 001 835).
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_515/2025, EP 3 835 965), the Düsseldorf Local Division held, on a reasoned request by Hewlett-Packard Development, that the steps already taken to bring its application for provisional measures to the attention of Shenzhen Moan…
Read the analysisBy a reasoned order of 11 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_771/2025 and UPC_CFI_802/2025, EP 2 147 029), the panel of the Munich Local Division, on review under Rule 333, confirmed the admission to the confidentiality club of two individuals from the Syensqo group, to…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 November 2025 (UPC_CoA_579/2025), the Court of Appeal set aside the order of the Hamburg Local Division of 16 June 2025, rectified on 11 August 2025, which had prohibited OTEC Präzisionsfinish from manufacturing and marketing an electrolytic medium…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 November 2025 (UPC_CoA_900/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal rejected the application for suspensive effect filed by Lepu Medical (Europe) and Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) against the Hamburg Local Division's order of 21 October 2025 granting…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1041/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division extended to 16 March 2026 the time limit for the defence, and any counterclaim for revocation, of the four Micron companies sued by Yangtze Memory Technologies for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 November 2025 (UPC_CoA_897/2025), the Court of Appeal rejected Black Sheep Retail Products' application for suspensive effect against the information order made by the Hague Local Division in its decision of 10 October 2025, which had held HL…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1443/2025), given without hearing the defendant on the day after the application was filed, the Hamburg Local Division granted Brita SE's application for provisional measures against Fileder Filter Systems Spółka z o.o., a Polish supplier…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_723/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the request by the six Angelalign companies for EUR 400,000 in security for costs against Align Technology, a US company, in provisional measures proceedings based on EP 4 346…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 5 November 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_461/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_718/2024, the Hamburg Local Division, sitting with a technically qualified judge, ruled on the dispute between Dolle A/S and four FAKRO companies over EP 2 476…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 October 2025, given in revocation action UPC_CFI_104/2025 and counterclaim for infringement UPC_CFI_364/2025, the Paris Central Division declined, despite the agreement of all parties, to apply Rule 340.1 to join that counterclaim with the infringement action pending before…
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismisses the preliminary objections raised by several Geely group companies, sued by Nokia Solutions and Networks for infringement of EP 3 799 333 (resource allocation in a mobile system) on account of vehicles implementing 4G/LTE…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 November 2025, made after the interim conference (Rule 105.5) in Adeia Guides’ infringement action against three Disney group companies concerning EP 1 969 839 and in the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 October 2025, given in joined appeals UPC_CoA_755/2025 and UPC_CoA_757/2025, the Court of Appeal rejected the request by Vivo Mobile Communication, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia to stay the infringement actions brought by Sun Patent Trust…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_630/2025), given after an inter partes hearing, the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Occlutech's application for provisional measures against Lepu Medical (Europa) Cooperatief and Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing), based on EP 1 998 686 (occlusion…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2025, EP 3 852 468 with unitary effect), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismissed the preliminary objection raised by Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication in Sun Patent…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2025 (UPC_CoA_8/2025, proceedings in Italian, EP 2 145 848), the Court of Appeal ruled on the application for security for costs brought by Oerlikon Textile, the respondent, against Bhagat Textile Engineers, the appellant found to infringe by…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_362/2025), the Paris Local Division rejected the preliminary objection raised by three Vivo companies against Sun Patent Trust's infringement action on EP 3 407 524.
Read the analysisBy order of 29 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_743/2025, EP 4 003 084), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Munich Local Division, granted the application of the Skechers companies, the defendants, and changed the language of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_555/2024), issued after the interim conference of 22 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division ruled on the admissibility of a series of documents and arguments in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo…
Read the analysisBy a summary of the interim conference of 22 October 2025 with orders, dated 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_537/2024, EP 2 579 551), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division admitted everything in dispute in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_729/2025, EP 3 614 263), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered ParTec, the second claimant and patent proprietor, to provide security for costs of EUR 80,500 in favour of NVIDIA Corporation and NVIDIA GmbH…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_178/2024 and UPC_CFI_432/2024), the Milan Local Division upheld the counterclaim of AWM and Schnell, revoked in its entirety Progress Maschinen & Automation's EP 2 726 230, concerning the continuous production of lattice girders, dismissed the application…
Read the analysisBy a panel order of 27 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2025, proceedings in Italian), the Milan Local Division dismissed Xelom's request to revoke the ex parte order of 18 March 2025, which had granted Prinoth a description of evidence and the seizure of a…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_612/2024, proceedings in French), the Paris Local Division dismissed the action for literal and equivalent infringement brought by Raccords et Plastiques Nicoll (RPN) against First Plast France, First Plast, First Corporation and Plasticos First Iberica, based…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_478/2025, EP 2 791 402), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division authorised Avient Protective Materials to serve its Statement of Claim on two Chinese companies, referred to together as 'Xinji', by personal delivery by a…
Read the analysisBy decision of 23 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_497/2024, revocation action, and UPC_CFI_571/2024, revocation counterclaim), the Milan Central Division ruled on the validity of Labrador Diagnostics' EP 3 756 767, concerning modular point-of-care devices, challenged by bioMérieux UK and several bioMérieux group companies.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_587/2025), The Hague Local Division dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care's application for provisional measures against Sinocare and A.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_575/2025, EP 2 563 695), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of the seven defendants in Honeywell Control Systems' infringement action against Sovex Systems, several Solvest companies, Solvink, De Kleine Beuk…
Read the analysisBy a decision by default of 21 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division, sitting as a full panel, upheld Amycel's infringement action based on EP 1 993 350 B2 concerning brown mushrooms for commercial production, against a defendant established in Poland…
Read the analysisThe Paris Central Division dismisses Meril’s revocation action against Edwards Lifesciences’ EP 4 151 181 (prosthetic heart valve and delivery assembly), maintains the patent as amended by Auxiliary Request 2 and grants the counterclaim for infringement against the Octacor and Octapro systems.
Read the analysisBy decision of 20 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, EP 3 297 043), the Munich Local Division permitted Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development to withdraw its infringement action against LONGi Solar Technologie, three other companies and an individual, following a settlement with the four…
Read the analysisBy decision of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_404/2025 and UPC_CFI_405/2025, EP 3 669 828), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences and Meril Italy to pay Edwards Lifesciences EUR 771,649.56 in costs within 20 days, in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_693/2025, proceedings in German), the Munich Local Division dismissed ONWARD Medical's application for provisional measures against Niche Biomedical (ANEUVO), based on EP 3 421 081 concerning a neuromodulation system and directed at the ExaStim stimulation system…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_624/2025), The Hague Local Division granted Abbott Diabetes Care's application for provisional measures against Sinocare and A.
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, with the agreement of the claimant AX Wireless, aligns the time limits of Xiaomi Technology Germany and Xiaomi Technology Netherlands with those of Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Hewlett-Packard Development provisional measures against Andreas Rentmeister e.K., which runs the toneroffice.de shop, based on EP 3 835 965 concerning logic circuitry for print cartridges.
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the Munich Local Division allowed the defendants to withdraw their counterclaim for revocation of Brita's patent EP 2 387 547 (UPC_CFI_564/2024, linked to infringement action UPC_CFI_248/2024), although the division had already ruled on the merits…
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division partly granted Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's request for access to the file of the proceedings Insulet v EOFLOW (UPC_CFI_380/2024).
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring Hewlett-Packard's application for provisional measures to the attention of the Chinese company Zhuhai ouguan Electronic Technology constitute good service under Rule 275.2, effective…
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