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In an order registered on 2 November 2026 (UPC_CFI_478/2025 and UPC_CFI_585/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division records the decisions taken at the interim conference of 26 October 2026 in Avient’s action against Xingi concerning EP 2 791 402.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 30 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2660/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered service of the statement of claim for infringement of EP 3 574 526 on the representative of Lexar Europe B.V., which accepted it.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 30 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1646/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division dismisses Rakuten’s application for Helios Streaming to provide EUR 200,000 as security for costs.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 October 2026 under Rule 105 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division followed up on the interim conference held by videoconference on 27 October 2026 in Establishment Labs’ action for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 October 2026 under Rule 105 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division followed up on the interim conference held by videoconference on 27 October 2026 in Establishment Labs’ action for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the Munich Local Division, sitting as a full panel, rules on Edwards Lifesciences’ request to lay open books within its application for the determination of damages following the final decision of 4 April 2025…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 October 2026 in two joined proceedings (UPC_CFI_2594/2026 and UPC_CFI_2595/2026), The Hague Local Division ruled on Versuni’s applications for provisional measures against Dreame concerning the Mira Mop electric mop.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 October 2026 in two joined proceedings (UPC_CFI_2594/2026 and UPC_CFI_2595/2026), The Hague Local Division ruled on Versuni’s applications for provisional measures against Dreame concerning the Mira Mop electric mop.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 October 2026, issued in German (UPC_CFI_714/2025, UPC_CFI_3019/2026 and UPC_CFI_3020/2026, EP 4 283 140), the Munich Central Division rules on cross-applications for cost assessment following the decision of 21 July 2026 that partially revoked the patent and allocated…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 26 October 2026, issued in German (UPC_CFI_672/2026 and UPC_CFI_2175/2026, EP 1 934 794 B1), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classifies as confidential the highlighted information in the defendants’ rejoinder of 19 October 2026 and its…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order issued in French and dated 26 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2296/2025, EP 1 740 740), the Munich Central Division, sitting as a full panel, rejects Fives ECL’s request to hear the parties’ legal experts in person in the revocation action…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_706/2025), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed SK nexilis’ action against three Volta Energy Solutions companies for infringement of EP 3 316 363, which concerns an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery.
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_68/2025, decided by the Düsseldorf Local Division on 22 October 2026 in respect of EP 3 281 569 B1, together with the infringement action UPC_CFI_47/2025.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_47/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_68/2025), Panel 2 of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the action brought by CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_52/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_67/2025), Panel 2 of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the action brought by CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2026, the Milan section of the Central Division rules on Novo Nordisk A/S’s preliminary objection to three ancillary requests in the revocation action brought by Sandoz AG against unitary patent EP 3 689 365, on once-weekly semaglutide.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 20 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_481/2025 and UPC_CFI_1358/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, hearing Huawei’s action for infringement of EP 3 667 981 against HMD Global and a counterclaim for revocation, held that the asserted claims were not entitled to the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1615/2026) under Rule 353 RoP, the single judge of The Hague Local Division rectifies point 5.4 of his provisional measures order of 8 October 2026, which, copying the application, covered iHerb websites in all EPC…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 October 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division confirms the oral hearing of 3 November 2026 in the dispute over EP 3 732 827, after the Court of Appeal finally upheld, on 16 October 2026, the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026, published in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and in the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, Samuel Granata, closes the interim procedure in the dispute between Barco N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1209/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_731/2026), Matthias Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1a of the Munich Local Division acting as judge-rapporteur, closes the interim procedure in the action brought by Steindl Krantechnik Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_684/2025 and UPC_CFI_2279/2025), the Paris Local Division upheld Align Technology’s unitary patent EP 2 237 738 B1 on orthodontic repositioning appliances and found literal infringement of claims 1, 4, 5, 7 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_307/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Aesculap’s application to rectify its decision on the merits of 1 September 2026 concerning EP 2 892 442 B1.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 October 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division, in the dispute between Illumina, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1901/2026 and UPC_CFI_3259/2026), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel presided over by Camille Lignières, referred Viatris Santé’s counterclaim for revocation to the Paris Central Division, in the dispute concerning Merz’s patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 October 2026, the Munich Local Division, sitting with a technically qualified judge, rejected as out of time a request for review under Rule 333 RoP against point 6 of its order of 15 September 2026.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, sitting as a full panel, upheld the judge-rapporteur’s order of 21 August 2026 on the disclosure of confidential information concerning the Pilot 1 plant.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 October 2026, issued in German, the Munich Local Division arranged service on Sercomm Italia SRL of two orders in its dispute with Huawei Technologies over EP 3 611 989 B1.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1587/2025), the Milan section of the Central Division dismissed Biogaran’s revocation action against EP 4 223 296, held by H.
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2434/2026), published on 22 October 2026, the panel of the Milan Local Division dismissed the application by Amazon Web Services, Inc., Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, AWS European Sovereign Cloud GmbH and Amazon Data Services…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1332/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division set the terms on which the detailed description prepared by the court-appointed expert, following the inspection and preservation of evidence proceedings brought by fiskaly against Swissbit, may be released.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_676/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants the request of the four Xiaomi defendants in AX Wireless, LLC's infringement action on EP 3 072 324 for a refund of EUR 4,900 overpaid on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1615/2026), the single judge of The Hague Local Division, sitting with the parties’ consent, grants Caelus Lifesciences IP’s application for provisional measures based on EP 2 753 187 B2, which protects Eubacterium hallii and/or Alcaligenes…
Read the analysisBy decision of 6 October 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_137/2025 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_512/2025 (counterclaim for revocation), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed both Inficon's infringement action against Elitech Technology and Elitech UK, directed at the METRUM sniffing leak detector, and the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2660/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division authorised Micron Technology to serve its statement of claim for infringement (EP 3 574 526) on Lexar Europe, the second defendant, established in the Netherlands, through a Dutch…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_703/2025 and UPC_CFI_1757/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division answers the court expert’s request for clarification in the dispute between Prinoth and Xelom over EP 2 507 436 and…
Read the analysisIn this CAR-T life sciences infringement action, the Brussels Local Division dismissed the defendants' Rule 190 RoP applications for production of evidence directed at documents of the NIH (laboratory notebooks, invention reports, grant files, notice records), rejected the NIH's request to be…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 September 2026, published on 16 October 2026, Judge-rapporteur Edger Brinkman of The Hague Local Division set the next steps in Koninklijke Philips’s infringement actions against Quectel Wireless Solutions and eight other companies (UPC_CFI_2244/2025 and UPC_CFI_2245/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_1450/2026…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division draws the consequences of the second case management hearing held on 8 September 2026 in the infringement actions brought by Koninklijke Philips against Quectel and related companies, with counterclaims…
Read the analysisBy an order under Rule 105.5 RoP issued after the interim conference, the judge-rapporteur closed the interim procedure and opened the oral procedure in the infringement action brought by KEEEX against Adobe, OpenAI, Truepic, Joint Development Foundation Projects and the C2PA entities,…
Read the analysisThe Munich local division revokes the European part of Maxell’s patent for lack of novelty and dismisses the infringement action. The decision confirms that an auxiliary request drawn from the description does not escape an obviousness objection where it merely adds a…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), presiding judge and judge-rapporteur Pierluigi Perrotti of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_318/2024 and UPC_CFI_730/2024), judge-rapporteur Alima Zana of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against ASUSTek and Arvato…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 September 2026, the Mannheim Local Division largely upheld Honeywell Control Systems' infringement action on EP 2 563 695 B1 (telescopic belt conveyor) and dismissed the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy decision of 18 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1310/2025, infringement, and UPC_CFI_1737/2026, counterclaim for revocation, EP 4 024 777), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the mutual withdrawals of NovaCloud Licensing and of Meta Platforms, Edge Network Services and Meta Platforms Ireland,…
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to the infringement action UPC_CFI_668/2026.
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_2291/2026.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2307/2026), the Munich Local Division granted Oxford Nanopore Technologies' application for provisional measures against MGI TECH GmbH, based on EP 2 422 198 and EP 2 715 343 and directed at the Cyclone sequencing platform (CycloneSEQ…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division stayed Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action against seven Hyundai companies, together with the counterclaim for revocation, until the EPO's final decision on the appeal against the revocation of…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division granted the parties' joint request to amend the timetable for the written procedure (EP 3 841 735).
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026, issued in Dutch, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division ordered In(k)control, proprietor of EP 3 841 735, to provide security for costs of EUR 75,000 in favour of Esko-Graphics and Esko Software, the defendants to…
Read the analysisBy decision of 15 September 2026, given in the infringement action UPC_CFI_465/2025 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1121/2025, the Munich Local Division held the Netflix companies' counterclaim unfounded and DivX's infringement action well founded (paragraph 71).
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1830/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed two applications by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Lonza Netherlands in ToolGen's infringement action based on EP 4 397 760 (genome editing using guide RNA and Cas protein), directed…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division defers Moderna’s preliminary objection on international jurisdiction to the main proceedings, dismisses its Rule 361 request and provisionally grants confidentiality protection limited to the representatives of CureVac Manufacturing GmbH.
Read the analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Verifone GmbH, Adyen N.V. and other Verifone companies on EP 3 397 009 following a settlement, and declares the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 277 422 against the Verifone companies and Adyen (UPC_CFI_661/2026) following a settlement.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the counterclaim file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and EUR…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the panel of the Hague Local Division hearing GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA v Moderna (EP 2 590 626) revoked, after the oral hearing of 1 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur's order excluding GSK's new cryo-TEM imaging reports as…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement action on EP 2 506 479 (UPC_CFI_1796/2026) following a settlement with the Verifone companies which also covers the claims against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the infringement action file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_766/2024), the Milan Local Division grants Cardo Systems’ application to rectify its decision by default of 10 July 2026 against Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology and Hong Kong Yiheng International Technology.
Read the analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and eight other defendants on EP 4 277 422, following a settlement with Transsion.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2437/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected BMS Innovations' application to declare inadmissible, or to stay, the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought by six BYD companies in respect of EP 2 937…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1332/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on a request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP by SwissBit AG and Swissbit Germany AG, upheld in substance the order for inspection and preservation of evidence granted without hearing the…
Read the analysisThe Milan Local Division grants Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. a provisional injunction against the GS3-R glucose monitoring system, on the basis of EP 3 960 072, together with an order for information on distribution channels.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2434/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division aligned the deadlines for the statements of defence and counterclaims for revocation of the four Amazon Web Services companies sued by NIXU FL IP Protection.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_11/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division released the security for costs of EUR 150,000 (EUR 75,000 per appeal) provided by Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump on the order of the Court of Appeal, in its dispute with…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2280/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the request by Influx Technologies USA, Influx Technologies Limited and two further defendants for security for costs of EUR 112,000 against IAGON, a company based in the…
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division classifies as confidential, under Rule 262A RoP, the information to be provided under sections III.2 and III.3 of the decision given the same day in UPC_CFI_297/2025 (EP 2 080 349).
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_523/2025), the Munich Central Division, on Wittenstein's stand-alone revocation action, revoked Vestas Wind Systems' European patent with unitary effect EP 4 226 039 (wind turbine power transmission system) in respect of claims 21 and 22 only,…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_307/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed under Rule 365.1 RoP the settlement reached by Aesculap AG with Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and Shanghai Bojin Electric Instrument & Device in the infringement action on EP 2 892…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Topsoe of the experts' detailed description drawn up after the inspection and preservation order of 25 and 26 November 2025, executed at SYPOX's…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1938/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. and Dentsply Sirona Deutschland, defendants to iCAT Corporation's infringement action on EP 1 808 129.
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its three infringement actions against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co. Ltd. and nine other defendants on EP 2 712 236, EP 3 836 631 and EP 3 245 744, following a settlement…
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