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By an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024, EP 3 110 069), the Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Voß) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by Motorola Mobility, Motorola International Sales, Motorola Mobility Germany and Flextronics International Europe against Headwater Research's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), the Milan Local Division, on Ericsson's application for panel review under Rule 333, upheld the judge-rapporteur's refusal to set up an "external eyes only" confidentiality regime in Ericsson's infringement action against ASUSTEK…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, EP 2 404 516), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling), on referral from the judge-rapporteur, held inadmissible GISELA MAYER's application for security for costs of EUR 50,000…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_297/2025, EP 2 080 349), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, ordered that the proceedings brought by InterDigital CE Patent Holdings against…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2023, EP 1 970 677), Judge-rapporteur Schumacher (Düsseldorf Local Division) granted, without opposition, the application by Rubin Medical, the sixth defendant, to protect the unredacted settlement agreement concluded with F.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, EP 3 742 231), Judge-rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) granted the joint request of Esko-Graphics Imaging and the XSYS companies to stay, under Rule 295(d), the infringement action, the counterclaim for revocation and the…
Read the analysisIn its decision on the merits of 16 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division holds that Curio Bioscience directly infringes product claim 14 of 10x Genomics’ EP 2 697 391 B1 with its “Curio Seeker Spatial Mapping KIT” in Germany, France and…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the request by four Samsung companies that Headwater Research, the US claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 110 069 B1, provide security of EUR 400,000 for legal costs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, EP 3 296 274), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) ruled on two applications in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning Incorporated.
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_309/2023, EP 3 498 115), Judge-rapporteur Haedicke (Paris Central Division) granted the firm Meissner Bolte, a non-party, access to the pleadings and evidence in NJOY Netherlands' revocation action against Juul Labs International, concluded at first…
Read the analysisIn Sunstar Engineering Europe's action against CeraCon for indirect infringement of EP 4 108 413, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division read the request for a declaration of liability for damages broadly: it already covers sales of CeraPUR sealing material…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the infringement action brought by DISH Technologies and Sling TV on EP 2 479 680 (adaptive bit rate video streaming) against six companies operating or servicing streaming websites, and…
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division refused CeraCon leave to add to its counterclaim for revocation of EP 4 108 413 a lack of novelty attack based on prior art found later (EP 3 868 480).
Read the analysisOn Insulet's application in its claim against EOFLOW for the costs of the provisional measures proceedings on EP 4 201 327, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Central Division partly protected the fee evidence filed.
Read the analysisIn Fingon's action against Samsung for infringement of EP 2 839 403, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division held that the new examples added in the reply (Galaxy S25, further trusted applications) did not amend the claim, refused to extend…
Read the analysisFollowing a settlement, the Munich Local Division allowed the withdrawal of PHOENIX CONTACT's infringement action on EP 3 602 692 and of the counterclaim for revocation brought by Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico and ILME, declared the proceedings closed, left each party to…
Read the analysisIn 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience (EP 2 697 391), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge rapporteur, amended the confidentiality order of 11 March 2024 to replace two unavailable paralegals with two other named…
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division rectified under Rule 353 the order of 23 May 2025 on Moderna's preliminary objections in the actions brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_192/2025, EP 2 279 254 and EP 4 241…
Read the analysisThe presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, acting as judge rapporteur, rejected FUJIFILM's request for a warning to Kodak that, failing compliance within three weeks with the information orders in the decision of 2 April 2025 (EP 3 511 174), a…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division rectified under Rule 353 its decision of 4 April 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences' action against Meril on EP 3 669 828 and the counterclaim, on the five points Edwards did not oppose (items 1, 2, 3, 7 and…
Read the analysisIn SWARCO FUTURIT's action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division admitted, absent any objection, Shenzhen Dianming's intervention in support of the defendant (Rule 313), declared the invitation to intervene of 24…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 June 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed, at the joint request of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Roche Diabetes Care GmbH and defendants 1 and 2 (Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK's confidentiality request concerning the information they were ordered to provide to Hurom by the merits decision of 11 March 2025 (EP 2 028 981) and had lodged with…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 June 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed, at the joint request of all parties, the revocation counterclaims and applications to amend concerning EP 3 498 117 in Dainese v Alpinestars, until the final decision…
Read the analysisThe Hamburg Local Division granted Lionra re-establishment of rights for the Rule 151 period, which expired on 19 March 2025, within which it had to start cost proceedings following the merits decision of 19 February 2025 against Cisco (EP 2 201 740).
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the partial withdrawal of Versah's action for infringement of EP 3 402 420 as against Adin Dental Implant Systems GmbH, following a settlement and with that defendant's consent, declared the proceedings closed as regards it, ordered Versah…
Read the analysisFollowing the interim conference of 28 May 2025 in Heraeus' action against Vibrantz on EP 3 215 288 and the counterclaim for revocation, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division closed the interim procedure on 18 June 2025, confirmed the oral…
Read the analysisIn BioMarin's action against Ascendis Pharma for infringement of EP 3 175 863 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_18/2025 and UPC_CFI_439/2025), the Munich Local Division decided to hear both together, asked for a technically qualified judge in biotechnology, and set the end…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the Hamburg Local Division ordered Easee B.V., Yves Prevoo and Easee Holding B.V. to provide joint security of EUR 75,000 for the costs of Visibly, proprietor of EP 3 918 974 (UPC_CFI_525/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division determined, for clarification purposes, that Sunstar Engineering Europe had validly chosen English as the language of the proceedings in its infringement action on EP 4 108 413 against…
Read the analysisBy order issued on 30 May 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 (preservation of evidence) and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (inspection), the Brussels Local Division largely granted, without hearing the defendants, the applications by Genentech and F.
Read the analysisBy decision of 29 May 2025, the Paris Central Division dismissed Lindal Dispenser's revocation action against Rocep-Lusol's EP 3 655 346 and maintained the patent as amended by the first auxiliary request (UPC_CFI_202/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division provisionally set the value of Samsung Electronics' infringement action on EP 4 050 804 against three ZTE companies (UPC_CFI_189/2025) at EUR 4,000,000 and ordered Samsung to pay an…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, following an oral hearing on 9 May 2025, the Munich Local Division rejected ALD Vacuum Technologies' request for review of the order for preservation of evidence and inspection made on 3 February 2025, without hearing ALD,…
Read the analysisBy decision of 22 July 2025, the Milan Central Division dismissed by default EOFLOW's revocation action against EP 4 201 327 (unitary effect), EOFLOW having failed to provide the EUR 500,000 security ordered on 11 April 2025, and then, after examining the…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, the Mannheim Local Division, following a settlement, permitted MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geräte to withdraw its infringement action on EP 4 074 373 against three Advanced Bionics companies (UPC_CFI_410/2023), cancelled the date set for pronouncing the decision and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 28 May 2025, the Paris Central Division, seised by AYLO PREMIUM of a revocation action directed only at the German part of DISH Technologies’ EP 3 822 805 B1 (adaptive rate streaming of content), revokes that German part for…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025 (the heading bears the date 26 May), the Düsseldorf Local Division, at Grundfos's request and with no objection from Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump, corrected several obvious clerical errors in its decision of 8 May 2025…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division rejected the preliminary objection to jurisdiction raised by Epson France in Dolby International's infringement action on EP 3 605 534 against five Epson companies (UPC_CFI_77/2025).
Read the analysisBy joint order of 23 May 2025 in the joined infringement actions UPC_CFI_191/2025 (EP 2 279 254) and UPC_CFI_192/2025 (EP 4 241 767) brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma against fifteen Moderna group companies, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2025, the panel of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Total Semiconductor's application for review (Rule 333) of the judge rapporteur's order of 1 April 2025, which had refused it leave to file a further written pleading in…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division stayed, with effect from 21 May 2025 and at the joint request of the parties, who are negotiating a settlement, the revocation action brought by Kunststoff KG Nehl…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Siemens' application for security for costs against Hologic, a US company suing it for infringement of EP 2 352 431 B1 (UPC_CFI_758/2024, with the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_259/2025).
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 20 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted the application for protection of confidential information filed by three of the defendants (Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Tandem Diabetes Care Europe and Rubin Medical) in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_58/2025), the Munich Local Division closed the provisional measures proceedings brought by Dolby International against Roku under EP 3 490 258 B1, after Roku had dropped its request for an anti-suit injunction before a US court.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division set 2 July 2025 as the deadline for the statement of defence of both defendants (Discord Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_59/2025, ORD_16028/2025), panel 2 of the Munich Local Division closed the provisional measures proceedings brought by Sun Patent Trust against Roku, Inc., following the anti-anti-suit and anti-anti-enforcement injunction it had granted ex parte on 28 January…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_342/2025), made without hearing the other side, the Milan Local Division granted 3V Sigma, in part, measures to preserve evidence and inspect premises under EP 3 275 872 and EP 3 275 426 (UV filters for…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division protected, in the provisional measures proceedings brought by DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US against Greenchemicals under EP 1 957 544 B1 (UPC_CFI_203/2025), financial information contained in the applicant's…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 May 2025, the Munich Local Division set the timetable in Belparts Group's action against IMI Hydronic International and IMI Hydronic Engineering for infringement of EP 3 812 870 (UPC_CFI_801/2024, with the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_392/2025): interim conference…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 May 2025 (ORD_22310/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Milan Central Division ordered, in the action for infringement of EP 1 998 604 brought by Maschio Gaspardo against Spiridonakis Bros, which did not appear (UPC_CFI_513/2024), an on-site inspection of…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 May 2025 (ORD_18861/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Total Semiconductor's request to file a further written submission after Texas Instruments' rejoinder in the action for infringement of EP 2 746 957 (UPC_CFI_132/2024).
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 May 2025 (ORD_16635/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division postponed, until the oral hearing at the latest, the decision on Centripetal's conditional application for leave to amend its case (Rule 263) in its action against…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division deferred to the oral hearing of 22 and 23 July 2025 the decision on TOTAL SEMICONDUCTOR's application, filed on 16 April 2025 under Rule 263, to extend…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division set at EUR 84,950 the costs that Bette must reimburse to Franz Kaldewei following the decision on the merits of 3 July 2024 on EP 3 375 337…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 13 May 2025 (ORD_18791/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential information contained in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim against MediaTek, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential the highlighted information in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim in its infringement action against MediaTek (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisBy order of 13 May 2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Kodak's application for rectification of its decision of 2 April 2025 in FUJIFILM's action for infringement of EP 3 476 616, with a counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_359/2023).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_505/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division considers Regeneron’s EP 3 536 712 B1, which claims a composition comprising a PCSK9 inhibitor for use in reducing lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) levels, asserted together with its exclusive licensee Sanofi Biotechnology…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) set 3 July 2025 as the uniform deadline for the Statements of defence of the three ZTE group defendants in Samsung Electronics' infringement action on EP 4 050 804…
Read the analysisOn a request for panel review (Rule 333), the Hamburg Local Division upheld the judge rapporteur's refusal of the application for security for costs brought by Chint New Energy Technology and the Astronergy companies against JingAo Solar, the Chinese claimant in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 May 2025 (ORD_22179/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set at EUR 77,064.65 the costs that Bhagat Textile Engineers must reimburse to Oerlikon Textile, following the decision on the merits of 4 November 2024, which had…
Read the analysisDecision on the merits of the Düsseldorf Local Division of 8 May 2025 in Grundfos' infringement action against Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump under EP 2 778 423 (centrifugal pump unit) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_11/2024).
Read the analysisThe Lisbon Local Division refused Boehringer Ingelheim International's application for provisional measures against Zentiva Portugal under EP 1 830 843 (nintedanib, treatment of fibrotic diseases) and ordered the applicant to pay EUR 92,944.15 in interim costs.
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division dismissed Yealink's application under Rule 353 to rectify the final order of 21 March 2025 issued in the provisional measures proceedings concerning EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_582/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 8 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended to 19 May 2025, without opposition from the defendants, the time available to Polidoro, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 037 175 against Bekaert Combustion Technology…
Read the analysisBy decision of 7 May 2025, the Milan Local Division allowed, in Ericsson's infringement action on EP 2 727 342 against ASUSTeK, Arvato and Digital River Ireland (UPC_CFI_318/2024 and UPC_CFI_730/2024), Ericsson's withdrawal against Digital River, which is being wound up in Ireland,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 7 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), the Milan Local Division allowed Ericsson to withdraw its infringement action (EP 3 076 673) against Digital River Ireland, which was being wound up in Ireland, and allowed Digital River to withdraw…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Thomas (Düsseldorf Local Division) classified as confidential, in Ona Patents' infringement action on EP 2 263 098 against the Apple companies and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024), the highlighted information in…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 May 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed, at the request of Evac and defendants 4 to 6 (S.K. Marine Supplies and two individuals), the settlement concluded between them in the infringement action on EP 1 840 282 and…
Read the analysisOn OrthoApnea and Vivisol's application for EUR 92,814.62 in costs following their success in the infringement action on EP 2 331 036 against an individual defendant (UPC_CFI_131/2025), the judge rapporteur Granata (Brussels Local Division) stayed the costs proceedings until the Court of…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 2 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_140/2024, ACT_15774/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division prepares the oral hearing in 10x Genomics’ infringement action against Curio Bioscience on EP 2 697 391 B1.
Read the analysisOn an application by the Disney companies, defendants in InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 465 265 (video coding) before the Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_86/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, changed the language of the…
Read the analysisIn the provisional measures proceedings brought by Aesculap against Shanghai International Holding Corporation (Europe) under EP 2 892 442 (UPC_CFI_213/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division asked the Presidium of the Court of First Instance to assign a technically qualified judge to the panel…
Read the analysisBy decision of 30 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_278/2023), the Hamburg Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding, Schilling, judge-rapporteur, Lignières and Sarlin, technically qualified judge) dismissed AGFA NV's infringement action against nine Gucci group companies under EP 3 388 490, which concerns the decoration of…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 April 2025, the judge rapporteur Thomas (Düsseldorf Local Division) took note of Curio Bioscience's intention to provide samples in 10x Genomics' infringement action on EP 2 697 391 (UPC_CFI_140/2024).
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