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By procedural order of 21 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, App_6926/2024), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, retrospectively extended to 7 February 2024 the time limit for Kodak's counterclaims for revocation of FUJIFILM's EP 3 594 009, and rejected…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_455/2023), Paolo Catallozzi, judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, hearing the action for a declaration of non-infringement of EP 2 196 231 brought on 30 November 2023 by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_454/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division, in the revocation action against EP 2 196 231 brought by Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ORD_8243/2024), The Hague Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782 brought by Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against Curio Bioscience based on EP 2 697 391, deferred ruling on Curio's request to protect confidential commercial information before it had…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set up for the whole of the proceedings concerning Panasonic's EP 2 568 724 a confidentiality regime for the licence agreements the parties wish…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, App_586761/2023), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application by Arkyne Technologies S.L., defendant in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782, for Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_425/2023, ORD_7664/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 988 471 against Dexcom Inc., Dexcom International Limited and Dexcom France SAS, aligned the start of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ORD_7657/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in DexCom, Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Laboratories and thirteen other defendants, aligned the start of the time limit for the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, Order no. 7671, Application no. 5858/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in ICPillar LLC's infringement action on EP 3 000 239 against several Arm group companies and other defendants, authorised service by…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 3 404 726 brought by Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd against Laser Components SAS concerning UV LED chips, declared admissible the application…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 December 2024, the panel of the Munich Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 3 215 288 brought by Heraeus Electronics GmbH & Co. KG and Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ORD_2866/2024), the Munich Local Division declined to change the language of the proceedings from German to English, the claimant Huawei having refused its consent, but ruled that the hearings would be conducted in English.
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_412/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division rejected the request by ITCiCo Spain S.L., defendant in the revocation action against EP 2 796 333 brought by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, to extend the time…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 February 2024 in infringement action UPC_CFI_424/2023 (EP 4 070 727), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division aligned the deadline for both defendants, Dexcom Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_392/2024), the Munich Local Division referred Regeneron's counterclaim for revocation of Amgen's EP 3 666 797 to the Central Division and proceeded with the infringement action concerning alirocumab (Praluent), while reserving the possibility of a…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, App_253/2024), the full panel of the Paris Local Division dismissed Abbott's request for review of point 6 of the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order, which caps the penalty for each breach at EUR 50,000, whereas the Munich…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_463/2023, ORD_3015/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, seised by 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_452/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division, seized by Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH with a request for review of provisional measures ordered ex parte in favour of Ortovox on EP 3 466 498,…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ORD_2233/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division admitted into Sanofi's revocation action against Amgen's EP 3 666 797 a six-page letter and expert declarations responding to points first raised in the rejoinder, and refused…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, App_251/2024), the Paris Local Division refused Abbott leave to appeal the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order of 19 December 2023, made in the infringement action on DexCom's EP 3 435 866.
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_181/2023), issued after the interim conference held by video the day before, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH's infringement action on EP 3 221 117 against TROESTER GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_308/2023, App_159/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division declared that VMR Products' defence to revocation was served on NJOY on 13 December 2023, the date on which the Registry sent the corrected version.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_363/2023, ACT_579244/2023, App_2249/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division rejected the request of expert e-Commerce GmbH and expert klein GmbH, sued by Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd for infringement of EP 3 926 698, to…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_457/2023, ACT_590145/2023, App_1714/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in the action brought by Dolby International AB against fifteen HP group companies for infringement of EP 3 490 258, set a common end date…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, App_595631/2023), the Munich Local Division, on Netgear's application for review, confirmed the judge-rapporteur's order of 11 December 2023 allowing Huawei to extend its infringement action, based on EP 3 611 989, to a second patent,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ACT_549536/2023, CC_588768/2023, ORD_2223/2024), issued of its own motion by the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_590837/2023), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the application of Aarke AB, defendant in SodaStream Industries Ltd.'s action for infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_263/2023, ACT_555899/2023, App_590707/2023), the Paris Central Division (F. Thomas, P. Catallozzi, U.
Read the analysisBy order of 3 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_5/2023, App_598021/2023), the Munich Local Division extended by one week, to 15 January 2024, the time limit for Philips IP Ventures's reply in its infringement action on EP 2 372 863 against Belkin and others, the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_62/2023, App_598024/2023), the Munich Local Division extended by one week, to 15 January 2024, the time limit for Koninklijke Philips's reply in its infringement action on EP 2 628 233 against Belkin and others, the rejoinder…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_597730/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the defendants (Sanofi and Regeneron), in the infringement action on Amgen's EP 3 666 797, an extension until 8 January 2024 of the time limit for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_181/2023, ACT_528357/2023, ORD_588953/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in KraussMaffei Extrusion GmbH's action against TROESTER GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_424/2023, ACT_586899/2023), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division found, in Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action (EP 4 070 727), that the statement of claim had been properly served on Dexcom International Limited on 20 December…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_249/2023, ACT_550921/2023, ORD_577734/2023), the Munich Local Division (M.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_201/2023, ORD_589338/2023, ACT_544303/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom and Agergaard, and Hedberg, technically qualified judge), in N.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, ACT_546446/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division granted Abbott's confidentiality requests concerning its statement of defence in the infringement action on DexCom's EP 3 435 866: the redacted passages are withheld from the public…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, App_590796/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected all requests by Lama France, defendant in Hewlett-Packard Development Company's infringement action on EP 2 089 230 and EP 1 737 669, for access to two…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_201/2023, App_594633/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, on an application by N.V. Nutricia under Rule 9 RoP, clarified that the time limit for the claimant's Defence to the counterclaim for revocation and any application…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, App_586381/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected as inadmissible an application by the Netgear companies, defendants in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 611 989, for panel review under Rule 333 RoP…
Read the analysisBy interim order of 11 December 2023 under Rule 302.1 RoP (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ORD_593105/2023), the Munich Local Division, having on the same day allowed Huawei Technologies to extend its infringement action against the Netgear companies to EP 3 678 321, invited the defendants…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_452/2023, ACT_589655/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (judges Thomas, Thom and Schober), without hearing the respondents, granted Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH's application for provisional measures against Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH based on…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_9/2023, ACT_459771/2023, App_587438/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Huawei Technologies Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 8 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_219/2023, App_589186/2023), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Panasonic Holdings Corporation's application for a ruling that delivery of the statements of claim to the German address of Xiaomi Technology Germany amounted to service on four other group…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, App_589355/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division set 8 November 2023 as the start of the period for Avago Technologies International Sales to respond to the counterclaim for revocation of EP 1 612 910…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, ACT_459746/2023, App_577241/2023), the Munich Local Division (judges Zigann, presiding, Pichlmaier, rapporteur, Kupecz and Enderlin, technically qualified) imposed on NanoString Technologies Inc., NanoString Technologies Germany GmbH and NanoString Technologies Netherlands B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (P.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 4 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_363/2023, ORD_589353/2023), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, as judge-rapporteur, separated Seoul Viosys' infringement action against expert e-Commerce and expert klein, based on two patents (EP 3 926 698 and EP 3 223…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 1 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_7/2023, ORD_581034/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division decided, after hearing the parties and before the close of the written procedure, to hear both Franz Kaldewei's infringement action against Bette on EP 3 375 337 and the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ACT_465342/2023, App_577540/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (U. Voß, presiding, A. Kupecz, judge-rapporteur, P.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_559935/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch) upheld REEL GmbH's Preliminary objection and rejected Fives ECL, SAS's application for the UPC to determine the damages owed under a final judgment of the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ACT_465342/2023, App_584332/2023), the judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz) ruled on the request of Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, claimant in the revocation action against EP 3 056 564,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_397/2023, App_583867/2023), the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, C.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_255/2023, ACT_551308/2023, App_572915/2023), the judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) rejected the Preliminary objection of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, which argued that Meril Italy srl's revocation action against EP 3 646…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, App_577703/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division finally decided the confidentiality application under Rule 262A RoP of Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg, defendants in Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action on EP 1…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_584907/2023), the Munich Local Division, on the judge-rapporteur's proposal after consulting the panel (Rule 322 RoP), changed the language of Amgen's infringement action against Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland and others from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ORD_574057/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division ordered NanoString Technologies Europe, claimant in the revocation action against President and Fellows of Harvard College's EP 2 794 928, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, App_581626/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division extended to 30 November 2023 Vizgen's time limit for its statement of defence in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_357/2023, App_578681/2023), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, T. Pichlmaier, A.
Read the analysisBy 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.
Read the analysisBy 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)…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich section of the Central Division, in Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine's revocation action against EP 3 056 563 held by Healios, Riken and Osaka University, ruled that the…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ORD_579545/2023, ACT_465342/2023), the judge-rapporteur of Panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz), in Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine's revocation action against EP 3 056 564 held by Healios K.K and Osaka University,…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_278/2023, ACT_561734/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in AGFA's infringement action on EP 3 388 490 against nine Gucci group companies, extended for all defendants the time limit for a preliminary objection to 6…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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.
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy 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.
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