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By order of 26 August 2026, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2020/2025 (revocation action) and UPC_CFI_2034/2025 (action for a declaration of non-infringement) brought by SprintRay against the proprietors of EP 3 762 212, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division ruled on…
Read the analysisBy decision of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_362/2025 and UPC_CFI_0001786/2025), the Paris Local Division permitted, under Rule 265 RoP, the withdrawal of Sun Patent Trust's infringement action on EP 3 407 524 against Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication,…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna on EP 4 241 767 and of the counterclaim for revocation (paragraph 4).
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_56/2025 and UPC_CFI_864/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the infringement action on EP 3 402 420 (a dental rotary osteotome with helical flutes) brought by Versah LLC, an exclusive sub-licensee, against…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna, Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_757/2024) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_539/2025) concerning EP 2 819 131, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division dismissed ASUSTek's confidentiality request in Ericsson v ASUSTek.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 August 2026 issued jointly in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1733/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_1537/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the withdrawal of both actions between Malikie Innovations Limited and Xiaomi Corporation and eight…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_2665/2026 and UPC_CFI_539/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division stayed Ericsson's applications against ASUSTek for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) and for costs (Rule 150 RoP), pending the Court of Appeal's decision on the…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_495/2025 and UPC_CFI_1131/2025), the Hamburg Local Division upheld Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action against HMD Global based on EP 2 609 590, which concerns the decoding of audio signals containing transients, maintained the patent as worded in Auxiliary…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_466/2025 and UPC_CFI_869/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Dai Nippon Printing's infringement action on EP 3 805 415 against Zapp AG and Zapp Precision Metals, allowed the claimant to engage, at its own cost, interpreters from…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 August 2026, issued in German in the provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_2788/2026 concerning EP 3 645 903, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Valeo Electrification's confidentiality application against SEG Automotive Germany GmbH.
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2026 issued in the joined files UPC_CFI_620/2025, UPC_CFI_1509/2025 and UPC_CFI_1511/2025, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepared the oral hearing of 3 September 2026 in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and the Pfizer and…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 August 2026, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_2020/2025 (revocation action) and UPC_CFI_2034/2025 (action for a declaration of non-infringement) brought by SprintRay against the two Liechtenstein-resident proprietors of EP 3 762 212, the panel of the Paris Central Division refused to…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_860/2025), the Milan Central Division rules on LS9 GmbH's revocation action against Bellissa HAAS GmbH's EP 2 223 589 (a bed edging with a lockable sheet-metal strip), limited to Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 August 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_492/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1309/2025, the Munich Local Division dismisses the Roborock companies' preliminary objection and then PAPST LICENSING's infringement action based on EP 3 030 943 (a method for…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 August 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_86/2025 (EP 2 465 265), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 July 2026 issued in the joined proceedings UPC-CFI-0001536/2025, UPC-CFI-0000982/2026 and UPC-CFI-0001168/2026 (EP 3 079 153), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application for panel review brought by Dolby International AB and the intervener Vectis IP Ltd.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 July 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_565/2024 (and proceedings UPC-CFI-0002246/2025) concerning EP 2 337 403 and EP 3 944 587, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division ruled on the confidentiality club in Koninklijke KPN v…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_996/2025, UPC_CFI_737/2026 and UPC_CFI_742/2026, EP 3 003 087), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division provisionally admits Boa Technologies Inc.'s auxiliary requests 1bis to 12bis and defers its application under Rule 30.2 RoP to the…
Read the analysisOn Micron’s application for protection of technical information on the Z01M chip, produced in support of a prior user right, the Local Division refuses an attorneys’ eyes only regime (paras.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026) concerning EP 3 732 827, the Brussels Local Division refused Barco NV's application to introduce a sixth auxiliary request against Yealink.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division rules, in the infringement action on EP 3 107 487 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), on the defendants’ Rule 9 objection to Establishment Labs S.A.’s…
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_256/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division designates as confidential, under Art. 58 UPCA and Rule 262.2 RoP, the passages of the cost-fixing submissions concerning hourly rates, billing and time spent by the parties'…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 August 2026, issued in German (UPC_CFI_256/2025), the presiding judge, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, set the value of the provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_486/2024 at EUR 1,000,000 and stayed the cost-fixing proceedings brought by Light Guide…
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1048/2025), the Hague Local Division declares inadmissible BTL Medizintechnik GmbH's request for reimbursement of 60% of the court fees following withdrawal of its infringement action against Lexter Microelectronic Engineering Systems S.L.
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 August 2026 under Rule 105.5 RoP following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division organises the damages proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_2082/2026), the President of the Court of First Instance grants the application of Google LLC and Google Germany GmbH and changes the language of the infringement proceedings brought by BF exaQC AG and ParTec AG…
Read the analysisBy decision of 10 August 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_251/2025) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_769/2025), The Hague Local Division revokes Maxell, Ltd.’s EP 2 061 230 in its entirety and accordingly dismisses the action against four Samsung companies,…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_452/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_1152/2025 and UPC_CFI_752/2026, EP 3 849 157), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits the withdrawal by Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology and the ASUS companies under Rule 265 RoP and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1321/2026), the Hamburg Local Division rules on CYBEX GmbH's application for provisional measures against NUNA International B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_619/2025, UPC_CFI_1526/2025 and UPC_CFI_2033/2025), The Hague Local Division deals, in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and thirteen Moderna group companies, with the consequences of EPO decisions on two divisional patents stemming from the same application.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_621/2025, UPC_CFI_1707/2025 and UPC_CFI_1708/2025), The Hague Local Division deals, in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and companies of the Pfizer and BioNTech groups, with the consequences of EPO decisions on two divisional patents stemming from…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1569/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division fixes the costs recoverable by Niche Biomedical, Inc. (ANEUVO) from ONWARD Medical N.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 29 July 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_515/2026 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_1797/2026 (EP 1 955 151), the panel of the Munich Local Division rejects CA, Inc.'s application for review (Rule 333.1 RoP) of the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order of 22…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_181/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_497/2025 and UPC_CFI_516/2025, EP 2 726 883), the Düsseldorf Local Division, following a settlement, allows the withdrawals by QIAGEN Sciences, LLC and by bioMérieux S.A.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 4 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1536/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint request and under Rule 365.1 RoP, confirms the settlement reached between OTEC Präzisionsfinish GmbH and ANCA Europe GmbH after the order for inspection and preservation of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 August 2026, published on the register on 13 October 2026, the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered, without hearing the defendants, the inspection and preservation of evidence concerning the BioCapture SDK and the T3K BioCapture application, at the request…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 31 July 2026, the Paris Local Division revokes in its entirety Bostik's European patent EP 1 725 627 (cohesive coating for snack food packaging), which had already expired, for added matter, and consequently dismisses the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 31 July 2026, published on 3 November 2026 (UPC_CFI_565/2025 and UPC_CFI_841/2025), the Mannheim Local Division largely upholds Robert Bosch’s action against OWIM, maker of the Parkside brand, and three companies of the Lidl group.
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_2216/2025 and UPC_CFI_1829/2026), the Milan Local Division dismisses the application for security for costs filed by Kaltek s.r.l.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2026 under Rule 105.5 RoP, following the interim conference held online the day before, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo companies based on EP 3 407 524…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division recorded the parties' agreement in Qord IP Protection's infringement action concerning EP 2 047 617: SmartThings appears voluntarily, and the time limit for the Statement of Defence (Rule 23)…
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 July 2026 issued after the interim conference held by video link on 29 July 2026 (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division sets the value of Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2026, the Paris Local Division dismissed Viatris Santé's preliminary objection in the infringement action brought by three Merz companies on the basis of French supplementary protection certificate No.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismisses the applications for review (Rule 333 RoP) filed by KEEEX and by Adobe against the judge-rapporteur's order of 25 June 2026, in the action…
Read the analysisBy decision of 29 July 2026, the Lisbon Local Division confirmed, at Ericsson's sole request, the costs agreement reached with ASUSTek in the infringement action concerning EP 2 819 131, and ordered ASUSTek to pay EUR 150,000.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 July 2026 made of the court's own motion (UPC_CFI_377/2025 and UPC_CFI_702/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division corrects a clerical mistake in his order of 22 July 2026, issued after the interim conference, in the dispute…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, App_57167/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants a lawyer, as a member of the public, access to the statement of claim and part of the exhibits in Dolby International's action against three…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 28 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1540/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division extends, for all defendants (Eppen Netherlands, three Eppen companies based in China and Oostvogels Logistics), the deadline for the statement of defence to six weeks after…
Read the analysisBy an order lodged on 28 July 2026 and published on the register on 14 October 2026, the Milan Local Division stayed proceedings UPC_CFI_2297/2026 and UPC_CFI_2300/2026 between Pirelli Tyre and Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber, following a worldwide settlement reported by the parties.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 July 2026, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1746/2026 and UPC_CFI_1747/2026, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division ruled on the request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) filed by Shanghai Huaming Power Equipment against the inspection and preservation order…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 July 2026, issued in German in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1751/2026 and UPC_CFI_1752/2026, the Munich Local Division, ruling on a request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP, supplemented the confidentiality provisions of an inspection and preservation of evidence order…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 July 2026 given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1746/2026 and UPC_CFI_1747/2026, the Munich Local Division, on an application for review (Rule 197.3 RoP), supplements the inspection and preservation of evidence order it had made without hearing the other…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 July 2026, issued in cases UPC_CFI_1923/2025 and UPC_CFI_1062/2026, the Düsseldorf Local Division stayed with immediate effect Dolby International's infringement action against Beko Germany and Arçelik (EP 3 079 153), together with the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 27 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_894/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division takes note of SYPOX's withdrawal of the unredacted version of an investment agreement (exhibit D36), filed to show its SME status in the action for revocation…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, App_11638/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants the firm Vereenigde Octrooibureaux, as a member of the public, limited access to the statement of claim in Dolby International's action against three Optoma companies…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 July 2026, given in the joined cases UPC_CFI_87/2025 and UPC_CFI_488/2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division held that eleven Disney group companies infringe, through the Disney+ service, claims 5 and 17 of InterDigital VC Holdings’ EP 2 449 782…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_999/2025), the Paris Central Division allows the withdrawal of ALD France's action for revocation of Nanoval's patent EP 3 083 107, declares the case closed and grants the claimant a refund of only 50% of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 23 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_7/2023, App_44641/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants a law firm, as a member of the public, access to the pleadings and evidence of the action for infringement of EP 3 375 337…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 July 2026 issued after the interim conference of 9 July 2026 (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division organises the next steps in Primetals Technologies Austria's infringement action against Danieli & C.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 21 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_714/2025), the Munich Central Division partially revokes BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners' European patent with unitary effect EP 4 283 140, relating to a wooden fastening element, on the revocation action of Raimund Beck Nageltechnik: claim 1…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_2307/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected MGI TECH GmbH's (Respondent 1) application to extend to 31 July 2026, or at least to 27 July, the deadline of 24 July for its objection…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_209/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring LiNA Medical's statement of claim to the attention of Defendants 1 and 2, domiciled in China, constitute good service…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division partly granted Adobe's request to increase the EUR 200,000 security imposed on KEEEX under Rule 158 RoP on 19 December 2025: the security is increased by EUR…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 July 2026, issued in infringement action UPC_CFI_1963/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1247/2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division refused to let the Bosch group companies' time limit for their rejoinder run only from receipt of an unredacted…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 16 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_701/2025, EP 3 548 898), the Düsseldorf Local Division, at BAG Diagnostics' request and with no objection from Imusyn, classified as confidential the settlement reached between the parties in the preliminary injunction proceedings UPC_CFI_550/2025…
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_770/2024 and UPC_CFI_556/2025), the Milan Local Division, at Pirelli Tyre's request and with no observations from Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber, rectified its decision of 26 May 2026 concerning EP 3 519 207.
Read the analysisIn an order of 15 July 2026 (proceedings UPC_CFI_1963/2025 and UPC_CFI_1247/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division allowed VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE, over the Bosch companies' objections, to limit its infringement action on EP 4 144 599 (excluding seven APX products, Belgium…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_998/2025, UPC_CFI_738/2026 and UPC_CFI_743/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division regularised Boa Technologies' pleadings (reply, application to amend EP 3 777 595 and defence to the counterclaim) filed on 4 May 2026 without an electronic…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_672/2026 and UPC_CFI_2175/2026, EP 1 934 794), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the confidentiality request filed by Deutsche Telekom and two group companies with their statement of defence, in the action brought by…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_996/2025, together with files UPC_CFI_737/2026 and UPC_CFI_742/2026, EP 3 003 087), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division regularised the reply, application to amend the patent and defence to the counterclaim for revocation that…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_580/2025, EP 2 011 218), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with Inventronics' consent, permitted Tridonic to withdraw its infringement action, stayed since August 2025 for settlement talks, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 July 2026, the Lisbon Local Division allowed Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co. Ltd. to withdraw its infringement action on EP 4 123 910 (UPC_CFI_850/2026), before any statement of defence and with the Ericsson companies' consent, and declared the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1902/2025), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division aligns the time limits for the defence of the two defendants to Cardo Systems' infringement action: Shenzhen Ziwu Chuangxin Technology, served on 23 April…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1968/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division orders the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), proprietor of EP 3 854 403, to pay Gilead Sciences EUR 800,000 in recoverable costs within four weeks of…
Read the analysisIn a decision by default of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_766/2024), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, presiding, Zana, rapporteur, and Granata) holds that Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology and Hong Kong Yiheng International Technology, which did not appear, directly infringe CARDO Systems' unitary…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 July 2026, given in cost proceedings UPC_CFI_1849/2026 and UPC_CFI_1861/2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division orders Teleflex Life Sciences II to reimburse Speed Care Mineral EUR 211,000 (EUR 200,000 in representation costs, the applicable ceiling, and…
Read the analysisFollowing an early interim hearing, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set, by order of 8 July 2026 (Rule 105.5), the timetable for Huawei Technologies Co.
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 July 2026, given in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2051/2025 (infringement action) and UPC_CFI_1653/2026 (counterclaim for revocation), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division stays, at the parties' joint request and under Rule 295(d), the dispute between the Electronics and…
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