Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management v LONGi Solar Technologie (CFI, ORD_16018/2025, 14 April 2025)

Date	14 April 2025
Court	CFI
Division	Munich (DE) Local Division
Type of action	Generic Order
Registry reference	ORD_16018/2025
Parties	Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. v. LONGi Solar Technologie GmbH, Energy3000 solar …

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Dhenne Avocats · 10 October 2026

Our analysis

Summary

By procedural order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025, ORD_16018/2025), Judge-rapporteur Zigann of the Munich Local Division held that the statement of claim for infringement of EP 4 372 829, brought by Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management and Zhejiang Jinko Solar against six defendants including LONGi Solar Technologie, is deemed served by registered letter on Soltech Energy GbR (Defendant 4) on 14 March 2025, its statement of defence is due by 16 June 2025. The order treats failure to collect a registered letter as refusal to accept it.

Question

Does a registered letter notified to the addressee but not collected from the post office amount to service under Rule 271.6(b)?

Decision

The division applied the last alternative of Rule 271.6(b), under which service is deemed effected on the tenth day after posting where the addressee refused acceptance. Informed on 10 March 2025 that the document was awaiting collection at the post office, Defendant 4 did not collect it within the following two weeks and made no later enquiry: acceptance was therefore refused. As no notification under Rule 271.8 had been filed, service is deemed effected on the tenth day after posting on 4 March 2025, that is on 14 March 2025. The alternative request for service by other means (Rule 275) did not need to be addressed.

Key points for practice

Practical point: an addressee that fails to collect a notified registered letter risks deemed service, and the time limit for the defence then runs against it.

Provisions applied

Rules of Procedure: Rules 271.6(b), 271.8 and 275
Case law cited: No UPC decision is cited.

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Going further

Lexicon: Written procedure (UPC), Court fees and costs (UPC).

Source and translations

Official source: Unified Patent Court registry link recorded in the record
Original language: not recorded
Translation available: no translation recorded the firm’s French record is a summary, not a translation
Date checked: not recorded

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Proceedings

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Parties

claimantShanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management Co., Ltd.4 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
claimantZhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd.4 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantLONGi Solar Technologie GmbH4 decisions in the corpus Follow this party
defendantEnergy3000 solarFollow this party

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Decisions in the same proceedings and documented appeals

No other decision in the corpus bears the same case number, and no appeal is documented in the corpus to date.

What the record states

Nature of the act: Generic Order
Outcome (Dhenne Avocats summary): La demande est réputée signifiée le 14 mars 2025 à la défenderesse 4, le défaut de retrait de la lettre recommandée valant refus. La défense est due le 16 juin 2025.
Appeal: No appeal documented in the corpus, this does not mean that no appeal was lodged.
Instance: First-instance decision, whether it has become final is not recorded.

Patents mentioned

EP 4 372 829 mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis Follow this patent

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Patents and standards

Publication	Role in the dispute	Family	Standard and declaration	Pool	Sources
`EP 4 372 829`	Mentioned in the analysis (role not qualified) Also mentioned in 5 other decision(s): Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management v LONGi Solar Techno · Zhejiang Jinko Solar v LONGi Solar Technologie (CFI, 29 July 2025) · Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management v LONGi Solar Techno · Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management v LONGi Solar Techno · Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management v LONGi Solar Techno	not recorded	not recorded	not recorded	Espacenet links not checked mentioned in: Dhenne Avocats analysis

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