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In FUJIFILM's infringement action on EP 3 476 616 against three Kodak companies (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) allowed only in part the replacement of three of the nine members of the claimant's confidentiality club: two replacements were admitted,…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 April 2025, the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) gave effect to the parties' agreement in Powermat Technologies' infringement action on EP 2 481 141 against six Anker group companies (UPC_CFI_197/2025): service is deemed effected on 30 April…
Read the analysisOn an application by the Disney companies, defendants in InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 449 782 (video coding) before the Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_87/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, changed the language of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024, ACT_54607/2024, ORD_20010/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Lignières) permitted ArcelorMittal to withdraw the infringement action it had brought on 18 October 2024 on European patent EP 3 290 200 against seventeen defendants, including XPENG INC…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 April 2025 (ORD_13031/2025), The Hague Local Division allowed, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Hand Held Products' infringement action against Scandit AG and Scandit Inc on European patent EP 4 163 816 (UPC_CFI_562/2024) and of Scandit's counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_98/2025, App_6322/2025, ORD_20395/2025), Judge Catallozzi, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, rejected an application by Bayerische Motoren Werke for a cost decision against ITCiCo Spain covering only ITCiCo Spain's unsuccessful application to set…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_11/2025, ACT_831/2025, ORD_11186/2025), Judge Catallozzi, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, sitting alone, set at EUR 117,741.62 the costs that Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisThe regime reserved to external counsel and experts only is rejected. Article 58 UPCA and Rule 262A require a fair balance between the parties’ opposing interests, and Rule 262A.6, as interpreted by the Court of Appeal on 12 February 2025, requires that…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 April 2025 (no. 69253/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set up the protection of confidential information filed by ASUSTeK in Ericsson's infringement action based on EP 3 076 673 (UPC_CFI_319/2024) and in the counterclaim for revocation…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 April 2025 (ORD_20073/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division ruled on the protection of confidential information filed by ASUSTeK in Ericsson's infringement action UPC_CFI_318/2024 and in the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_730/2024.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 24 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_738/2024 and UPC_CFI_241/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division extended uniformly to 16 June 2025 the time limits, expiring on 28 May 2025, for Rädlinger Maschinenbau to reply to Henle Baumaschinentechnik's statement of defence and to respond…
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 24 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023), the Paris Local Division holds that Laser Components SAS, a French distributor, infringes Seoul Viosys’ EP 3 404 726 (ultraviolet light-emitting device) by importing, offering, placing on the market and…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_519/2024, UPC_CFI_47/2025 and UPC_CFI_52/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential under Art.
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_196/2025, App_19188/2025, ORD_19329/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, granted the application of the five Samsung defendants in Maxell's infringement action on EP 2 403 266.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_452/2024, ORD_18928/2025), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Judges Johansson, presiding, Härmand, judge-rapporteur, Rinkinen and van der Burg) declared closed, on a joint request, the proceedings comprising Viking Arm's infringement action on EP 3 953 541 against three…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, ORD_598604/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division prepares the hearing of 7 May 2025 in the infringement action on EP 2 479 680 brought by DISH Technologies and Sling TV against six companies,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024, ORD_17892/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Thomas) decided, before the end of the written procedure, to hear together Maxeon Solar's infringement action on EP 3 065 184 against eight defendants, including Aiko…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_537/2024, ORD_13311/2025), Judge-rapporteur Schilling of the Hamburg Local Division confirmed as final the preliminary order of 18 March 2025 protecting under Rule 262A the sales and profit figures filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_476/2024, ORD_18700/2025), the Milan Central Division allowed, with the consent of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, the withdrawal of the revocation action (ACT_45928/2024) and of the counterclaim for revocation (CC_60908/2024, referred by the Düsseldorf Local Division) brought by Pfizer…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025, ACT_7567/2025, ORD_19051/2025), Judge-rapporteur Zigann of the Munich Local Division gave effect to the parties' agreement in the infringement action on EP 4 372 829 brought by Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management and Zhejiang…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_687/2024, ORD_18810/2025), the Milan Central Division allowed, with the consent of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, the withdrawal of the revocation action against EP 4 183 412 brought by Pfizer companies and of their counterclaim for revocation, referred by…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered Ortovox Sportartikel to reimburse EUR 4,866.11 in costs to Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH, rather than the EUR 9,732.21 claimed, following the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential the information on the work billed by Ortovox Sportartikel's lawyers (invoice numbers, hourly rates, hours) in the applications for the determination of costs it…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 18 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ORD_7615/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Lignières) partly granted LIFE 365 S.R.L.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_526/2024, ORD_18972/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Central Division prepared the oral hearing in the revocation action brought by Kunststoff KG Nehl & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 17 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_14155/2025 and ORD_14156/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division held admissible the preliminary objections of the BioNTech and Pfizer defendants in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365 brought by Promosome LLC, and…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_628/2024, App_8962/2025), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered AorticLab, defendant to Emboline's infringement action on EP 2 129 425 and counterclaimant for revocation, to provide security of EUR 200,000 for Emboline's costs.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_58591/2024), Judge-rapporteur Zana of the Milan Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of Alpinestars Research, Defendant 2 in the infringement action on EP 4 072 364 brought by Dainese against six defendants.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024, ORD_9090/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom, rapporteur, and Kokke) decided, with the parties' consent and before the close of the written procedure, to hear together Ona Patents' infringement action…
Read the analysisBy decision of 14 April 2025 (ACT_66999/2024 and ACT_67004/2024, UPC_CFI_483/2023 and counterclaim CC_3555/2024), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, rejected as inadmissible the application by expert e-Commerce and expert klein to fix costs of EUR 111,000.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025, ORD_16126/2025), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Schober, Pichlmaier and Dorland-Galliot) granted Syngenta leave to extend its infringement action on EP 2 152 073 against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, ORD_9091/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Thom and Kokke) decided, with the parties' consent and before the close of the written procedure, to hear together Ona Patents' infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Headwater Research's application to sever its infringement action (EP 3 110 069), insofar as it targets Flextronics International Europe, the fifth defendant, from the proceedings against…
Read the analysisBy decision of 14 April 2025 (ACT_60376/2024, UPC_CFI_363/2023 and UPC_CFI_677/2024), Presiding Judge Thomas, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, fixed the costs owed to Seoul Viosys following the decision of 10 October 2024, which had upheld the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_597/2024), the Milan Central Division rules on three issues in EOFLOW’s revocation action against Insulet’s EP 4201327, in which Insulet has counterclaimed for infringement.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023, ACT_568963/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding, Kupecz and Pichlmaier) ordered the immediate continuation of the written procedure in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_468/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, with the defendants' consent, to withdraw its action against fourteen Pfizer group companies for infringement of EP 4 183 412.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_12069/2025), Judge-rapporteur Postiglione (Milan Central Division) granted ALIUD PHARMA, a third party to the action for a declaration of non-infringement of EP 2 501 384 brought by Accord Healthcare against Novartis, access to the statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11612/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) ordered Promosome, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365, to deposit security for costs of EUR 1,500,000 into the UPC account within three weeks of service,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023 and UPC_CFI_676/2024, App_14059/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, permitted Meril Life Sciences to withdraw its cost application (EUR 8,379) and confidentiality applications arising from a third party, Mr…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023 and UPC_CFI_674/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division allowed Meril to withdraw its applications for reimbursement of the costs incurred in opposing a third party's request for access to the file, made by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024, App_17158/2025), Presiding Judge Tochtermann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the requests by the TCL, Hisense and LG defendants to split into three Corning's infringement action on EP 3 296 274,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_13218/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding, Thom, Agergaard and Schober) corrected under Rule 353 its decision of 7 March 2025 between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen Xiezhen Electronics (EP 2 011 218): the…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_64124/2024), Judge-rapporteur Alima Zana of the Milan Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Alpinestars S.p.A., a defendant to Dainese S.p.A.'s infringement action on EP 4 072 364, which also covers the Spanish validation.
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_10964/2025), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, presiding, Zana, rapporteur, Klein and Ashley, technically qualified) granted Dainese S.p.A.
Read the analysisBy decision of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_757/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (Judges Lopes, presiding and rapporteur, Granata and Rinkinen) allowed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its action for infringement and damages (EP 2 819 131) against Digital River Ireland, which an Irish…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_750/2024, ORD_11176/2025), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the preliminary objection of Samsung Electronics GmbH and Samsung Electronics France in Fingon LLC's infringement action on EP 2 839 403.
Read the analysisBy decision of 4 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2024, ORD_68336/2024), Judge-rapporteur Rute Lopes of the Lisbon Local Division ruled on the costs application of AsusTek Computer, Arvato Netherlands and Digital River Ireland following the dismissal, on 15 October 2024, of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson's application…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the preliminary objections of the Hisense, TCL and LG group companies, sued together by Corning for infringement of EP 3 296 274 through the sale in Germany…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11610/2025 and ORD_11611/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division rejected the applications to produce evidence filed on 7 March 2025 by the five BioNTech companies and the four Pfizer companies, defendants to Promosome LLC's…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division rules on Fujifilm’s infringement action against Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications and Kodak Holding based on EP 3 476 616 (lithographic printing plate precursor), and on the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_819/2024), Judge Tochtermann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Mannheim Local Division, rejected the applications for a stay (Rule 295(m) RoP) filed by nine Hisense, TCL and LG group companies, defendants to Corning Incorporated's infringement action…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_18/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected the preliminary objection of Ascendis, sued by BioMarin for infringement of EP 3 175 863 (variants of C-type natriuretic peptide) in respect of its product TransCon CNP,…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_429/2024, ORD_55997/2024), Judge Sabine Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Hamburg Local Division, dismissed the application for security for costs filed on 7 October 2024 by Chint New Energy Technology and five companies of the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division separated, in FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies (EP 3 476 616), the requests concerning the UK part of the patent, which will be dealt with in separate proceedings.
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023), the Mannheim Local Division separated, in FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies (EP 3 511 174), the requests concerning the UK part of the patent, which will be dealt with in separate proceedings.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ORD_68708/2024), the Paris Central Division (Judges Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, Zhilova and Samoud, technically qualified) rejected Microsoft Corporation's application for a decision by default against Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_365/2023), the Mannheim Local Division found that three Kodak companies infringed the German part of FUJIFILM's EP 3 511 174, which concerns a planographic printing plate precursor, through their SONORA XTRA-3 plates, and dismissed the…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division (Judges Brinkman, presiding, Lopez and Kokke, rapporteur) rejected the application for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) filed by the defendant, a natural person whose name is redacted, in Amycel LLC's…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2024, ORD_7652/2025, reissued as ORD_15972/2025 for technical reasons), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division refused Total Semiconductor, LLC leave to file a further written submission of 13 February 2025 in reply to the rejoinder of…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_614/2024, ORD_15600/2025), the Munich Local Division allowed MANN+HUMMEL, with SOTRAS's consent and following an out-of-court settlement, to withdraw its application for provisional measures based on EP 2 762 219, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, ORD_15869/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, extended from 3 to 8 April 2025, with Headwater Research's consent, the time for the three Samsung Electronics companies to comment on three…
Read the analysisBy order of 31 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_412/2023, ORD_15677/2025), the Paris Central Division (Judges Catallozzi, presiding and rapporteur, Zhilova and Otten-Dünnweber, technically qualified) rejected Bayerische Motoren Werke's application to supplement, by way of rectification, the order of 9 January 2025.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ORD_15005/2025), Judge-rapporteur Böttcher of the Mannheim Local Division rejected DISH Technologies and Sling TV's request for a finding that the information they sought from Cloudflare, a third party, under Rule 191 was not decisive for…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, ORD_5519/2025), Judge-rapporteur Tochtermann, presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, provisionally and partly granted the law firm AMPERSAND Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten access to the file in Panasonic Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 568 724…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_260/2025, ACT_14438/2025), made without hearing the defendants, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Schumacher and Schober) allowed OTEC Präzisionsfinish to have two polishing machines suspected of using EP 2 983 864 inspected on…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_594/2024, ORD_14440/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding and rapporteur, Schumacher and Mlakar) confirmed, under Rule 365.1, the settlement reached by Nichia Corporation and Endrich Bauelemente Vertriebs in the infringement action on EP 2 323…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_813/2024, ORD_9276/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet and Lopes) rejected the request of MAGUIN, a manufacturer of rotary kilns, to set aside the order of 23 December 2024 that had authorised,…
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