Case law of the Unified Patent Court

UPC Litigation Watch records the decisions of the Unified Patent Court since the Court opened on 1 June 2023. Every entry links to the official decision.

2,345 decisions recorded

10x Genomics v Vizgen (CFI, 22 October 2023)

22 October 2023 CFI / Hamburg (DE) Local Division / Application Rop 333 Enriched entry

By an order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, ACT_460565/2023, ORD_49705/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, S.

myStromer v Revolt Zycling (CFI, 18 October 2023)

18 October 2023 CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Generic application Enriched entry

By order of 18 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_177/2023, APP_552740/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered Revolt Zycling to pay a penalty of EUR 26,500 for breaching the injunction granted against it at myStromer's request by the provisional measures order of 22 June 2023 (ORD_526778/2023)…

Plant-e Knowledge v Arkyne Technologies (CFI, 18 October 2023)

18 October 2023 CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 18 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_239/2023), the President of the Court of First Instance, having consulted the panel of The Hague Local Division, granted the application of Arkyne Technologies, defendant in the infringement action brought by Plant-e Knowledge and Plant-e on…

OCADO INNOVATION v AUTOSTORE (CFI, 17 October 2023)

17 October 2023 CFI / Nordic Baltic Regional Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 17 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_11/2023, application 543819/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division granted a third party, whose name is redacted, access to the statement of claim in the infringement action brought by Ocado Innovation against Autostore AS and…

NanoString Technologies Europe v President and Fellows of Harvard College (CFI, 4 October 2023)

4 October 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Central Division - Section / Revocation Action Enriched entry

By order of 4 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ACT_551180/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division informed the parties that the preliminary objection lodged by President and Fellows of Harvard College, defendant to NanoString Technologies Europe's revocation action against EP 2 794 928…

Huawei Technologies v Netgear (CFI, 3 October 2023)

3 October 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 3 October 2023 (ORD_575878/2023, UPC_CFI_9/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on the confidentiality requests made by Huawei Technologies in its infringement action against Netgear Inc., NETGEAR Deutschland and Netgear International on EP 3611989.

Koninklijke Philips v Edrich (CFI, 27 September 2023)

27 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 27 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_62/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division partly granted Koninklijke Philips' application under Rule 275.2 RoP to validate service of its statement of claim on Belkin International (United States), Belkin Limited and two of its…

Philips IP Ventures v Edrich (CFI, 27 September 2023)

27 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 27 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_5/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on Philips IP Ventures' application under Rule 275.2 RoP for several methods of serving its statement of claim on defendants based in the United States and the…

Oerlikon Textiles v Himson Engineering (CFI, 27 September 2023)

27 September 2023 CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Infringement Action Enriched entry

By order of 27 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_240/2023, App_562298/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed an application for access to the file made under Rule 262.1(b) RoP by a lawyer describing himself as counsel for Himson Engineering, a defendant not yet…

Progress Maschinen & Automation v AWM (CFI, 25 September 2023)

25 September 2023 CFI / Milan (IT) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 Enriched entry

By order of 25 September 2023, made on two identical joined applications (UPC_CFI_286/2023 and UPC_CFI_287/2023), the Milan Local Division allowed Progress Maschinen & Automation (PMA), without hearing the defendants, to carry out a simultaneous inspection and preservation of evidence at the premises…

N.V. Nutricia v Nestlé Health Science (Deutschland) (CFI, 22 September 2023)

22 September 2023 CFI / Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division / Application Rop 33 Enriched entry

By order of 22 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_201/2023, APP_559862/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in N.V. Nutricia's infringement action on EP 2 359 858 against Nestlé Health Science (Deutschland), postponed until the Statement of defence has been lodged the referral to…

*** v OrthoApnea (CFI, 21 September 2023)

21 September 2023 CFI / Brussels (BE) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 Enriched entry

By order of 21 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_329/2023, application 574133/2023), the Brussels Local Division, sitting as a single standing judge (Rule 194.4 RoP), allowed without hearing the defendant the seizure, at a symposium in Knokke-Heist on 22 and 23 September 2023, of OrthoApnea's…

10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, 19 September 2023)

19 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Enriched entry

By decision of 19 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, App_528389/2023), the Munich Local Division, sitting as a panel of four including a technically qualified judge, ruled on the application for provisional measures brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against…

CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb v ALPINA COFFEE SYSTEMS (CFI, 13 September 2023)

13 September 2023 CFI / Vienna (AT) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Enriched entry

By order of 13 September 2023, pronounced orally at the hearing (UPC_CFI_182/2023, ACT_528738/2023), the Vienna Local Division dismissed CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb's application for provisional measures against ALPINA Coffee Systems based on EP 3 398 487, relating to the production of milk foam.