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By an order of 14 April 2026 in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division orders the proprietor, Establishment Labs, to produce in part evidence on its own earlier 'Motiva SilkSurface' breast implant, which the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_858/2025), the Lisbon Local Division finds under Rule 360 that Boehringer Ingelheim's main action against Zentiva Portugal, brought after provisional measures were granted on appeal against a generic nintedanib product, has become devoid of purpose…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 April 2026, issued after the interim conference (Rule 105.5), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepares the oral hearing in Maxell’s infringement action against four Samsung companies on EP 2 061 230 and in the counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_301/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division allows Orange to file a further written response on the FRAND defence set out by HMD Global in the second part of its rejoinder, in the infringement…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1110/2025 and UPC_CFI_1111/2025), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division assesses the costs owed by Seoul Viosys to expert e-Commerce and expert klein following the Court of Appeal's judgment of 2 October 2025, which had set…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_480/2025), the Milan Central Division revokes in its entirety, for all UPC Contracting Member States, Flexicare's unitary patent EP 4 185 356 on a nasal cannula, in a revocation action brought by Fisher & Paykel…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1594/2025), made after an inter partes exchange, the Paris Local Division dismisses SharkNinja's application for provisional measures against four SEB group companies concerning the Cookeo Infinity multicookers, under EP 3 689 198 as in force…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1477/2025), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division sets at EUR 50,450.52 the appeal costs owed by Seoul Viosys to expert e-Commerce and expert klein, after the Court of Appeal dismissed, on 5 November 2025, Seoul…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 8 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_280/2025), the Munich Central Division dismisses the revocation action brought by WIRPLAST Więcek Spółka Jawna against VILPE's EP 2 649 380 B1, concerning an accessory for an exhaust ventilation pipe with an integrated circular spirit…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division grants the request of the four Ericsson defendants to align their time limits in the infringement action brought by Shenzhen Transsion Holdings on EP 4 123 910 (UPC_CFI_850/2026).
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2255/2025), made after an inter partes hearing, the Hamburg Local Division grants Dyson provisional measures against four Dreame group companies under EP 3 119 235, concerning a hand-held hair care attachment, targeting the 'Dreame Dazzle'…
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the President of the Court of First Instance grants the application of Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and Orope Germany, defendants in the infringement action brought by Koninklijke KPN on EP 3 349 412 before the Düsseldorf…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_642/2025), the full panel of the Munich Local Division rejects ScanBelt's second application to postpone the oral hearing set for 8 December 2026 in Laitram's infringement action (EP 3 251 983), and refuses leave to…
Read the analysisBy a so-called preliminary order dated 2 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division sets out his proposed summary of the case management hearing of 23 February 2026 in Dolby International’s infringement action on EP 3 079 153 against CPYou…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_714/2024 and UPC_CFI_155/2025, the Munich Local Division refuses to stay the case pending the opposition against EP 3 685 783, even though the EPO Opposition Division revoked the patent after…
Read the analysisIn an order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1920/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division refuses to dismiss at the outset, under Rule 361 RoP, Illumina's infringement action against Element Biosciences (EP 3 714 978), whose Statement of claim had omitted the…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1034/2025 and UPC_CFI_931/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division deals with Micron's request under Rule 262A RoP to protect its estimated 2026 gross profit from direct sales of the attacked products in Germany and France (EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 31 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division sets 11 June 2026 as the single deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation in Nixu FL IP Protection's…
Read the analysisBy decision of 30 March 2026, the Paris Central Division grants Emporia UK and Ireland’s revocation action against Seoul Viosys and revokes EP 3 926 698 B1, concerning a light-emitting diode, to the extent of claims 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 and…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits the withdrawal, agreed by both sides before the close of the written procedure, of Nokia Technologies’ infringement action on EP 4 250 732 against VIMN Germany and eight…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1390/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits, with the consent of the nine Warner Bros. Discovery defendants, the withdrawal of Nokia's infringement action (EP 4 250 732), declares the proceedings closed and orders…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1234/2025), the Munich Local Division upholds its judge-rapporteur's decision of 27 January 2026 granting the law firm Quinn Emanuel partial, redacted access to the pleadings in Huawei v MediaTek (UPC_CFI_248/2025 and UPC_CFI_668/2025, EP 3 905…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 25 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2107/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH to withdraw their infringement action against A.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 15 June 2026, for all defendants, the Rule 23 RoP time limit for filing the statement of defence in the infringement action brought by 3V Sigma…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division sets 15 June 2026 as the Rule 23 RoP deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1049/2025), the Hamburg Local Division orders a refund to BTL Medizintechnik of 60% of the court fees for its infringement action against Lexter (EP 4 426 414), the withdrawal of which had been permitted on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2296/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejects the preliminary objection of Fives ECL, proprietor of EP 1 740 740, which argued lack of standing and res judicata based on German decisions against REEL…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_649/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permits, with the defendant's consent, the withdrawal of Versah's infringement action against Argimiro Antonio Hernandez Suarez (EP 2 919 672), declares the proceedings closed, makes no costs decision following a…
Read the analysisIn an order of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the panel of the Paris Local Division refused the request by Robert Bosch d.o.o. Beograd and five other Bosch group companies to review the judge-rapporteur's order of 17 February 2026,…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1849/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, grants HyGear's request and replaces German with English, the language of EP 3 802 413, in the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_770/2024 and UPC_CFI_556/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, after consulting the panel, revisited the adversarial examination of the seized tyre samples planned for the oral hearing: the tyres will be examined without being…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_717/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, acting through the judge-rapporteur, permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action on EP 3 057 321 against Hisense Gorenje Germany and five other companies, which consented, and declared the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_519/2024, with counterclaim UPC_CFI_64/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that ALPINA Coffee Systems infringes claim 2 of CUP&CINO's EP 3 398 487 (producing milk froth at adjustable temperature) with the 'ALPINA Latte Perfetto Duo' frother,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 March 2026, made in the infringement action on EP 3 107 487 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the related counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division ordered Establishment Labs, a Costa Rican company, to provide security of EUR 600,000…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026, given in German in UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division upholds Dolby International AB's EP 3 605 534, presented as essential to the Opus audio codec, and finds it infringed by the Grundig smart…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026, the Paris Central Division ruled on Veolia Propreté's revocation action (UPC_CFI_417/2025) and on the joined counterclaims for revocation of Valinea Energie and Maguin (UPC_CFI_509/2025 and UPC_CFI_528/2025) against Tiru's EP 3 178 578 (waste incineration plant…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik's infringement action against IPG Laser concerning the 'YLS-AMB' fibre lasers, and on the counterclaim for revocation of claims 1 to 3 of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_722/2025), the Milan Central Division found that Neurocrine Biosciences' revocation action against Spruce Biosciences' unitary patent EP 3 784 233 had become devoid of purpose following the final revocation of the patent by the EPO,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_927/2025), the Milan Central Division, ordered La Siddhi Consultancy, the UK claimant in the revocation action against unitary patent EP 3 592 333, to provide within six weeks security of EUR 75,000 for the costs…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2216/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 25 May 2026 Kaltek's time limit for lodging its statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation, in Biopsafe's action based on three patents.
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_64/2024 and UPC_CFI_450/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 875 683 concerning an integrated circuit with an on-chip communication…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_65/2024 and UPC_CFI_451/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 552 399 concerning an integrated circuit and a method for…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refused Hologic's request under Rule 36 RoP to file, by 13 March 2026, brief formal comments on Siemens Healthineers' submissions dated 24 September 2025 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_282/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division largely granted Gowling WLG's request, as a member of the public under Rule 262.1(b) RoP, for access to the pleadings in the provisional measures proceedings between Boehringer…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_141/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed PR Medical's preliminary objection seeking to have KeyMed's infringement action (EP 2 575 590, 'Detecto.' accessory for diagnostic devices) conducted in Italian rather than English.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 February 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division invited SZ DJI Technology, first defendant in Irdeto's infringement action based on EP 2 831 787 (UPC_CFI_344/2025), to pay the fee for its counterclaim for revocation within fourteen…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 26 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1235/2025, EP 4 142 215), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division amended his own order of 27 January 2026, which had largely granted the law firm Quinn Emanuel access to the parties' written…
Read the analysisIn an order of 25 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_692/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted beMatrix NV provisional measures without hearing the defendant, Yaham Recience Technology, on the basis of EP 3 757 442 B1, which concerns a display module for a temporary exhibition…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 25 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1927/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division summoned the parties to an oral hearing on 22 April 2026 in Ottobock's provisional measures proceedings against BrainPortfolio and BrainRobotics under EP 3 001 984 B1.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_337/2025), the Munich Central Division held unfounded TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning's EP 3 296 274 B1, which concerns a downdraw process for alkali-free glass sheets fined with tin, in force in France and…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_735/2024) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_224/2025), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser UK's EP 2 951 625 B1, which concerns a fibre optic laser combiner, asserted…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_829/2024), the Munich Central Division revoked in its entirety International N&H Denmark's EP 2 611 800, which concerns a xylose-rich sugar composition, for Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, at the request of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 February 2026, given in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_26/2025 and UPC_CFI_375/2025), the Vienna Local Division dismissed both Messerle's action and Sabert Corporation Europe's counterclaim concerning EP 3 705 415 B1, which relates to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 February 2026, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_541/2025 and UPC_CFI_1313/2025 concerning EP 3 859 566, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Wizart's request that Leap Tools, a Canadian company with no presence in the UPC territory, provide EUR 300,000 as…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_283/2026), the Paris Local Division partly granted the law firm Gowling WLG access to the file of the provisional measures proceedings between Merz and Viatris Santé (UPC_CFI_697/2025), concerning EP 2 377 536 and supplementary protection…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 February 2026, the Mannheim Local Division permitted Corning to withdraw its infringement action based on EP 3 296 274 (UPC_CFI_819/2024) against Hisense Gorenje Germany and Hisense Europe Holding, and those two companies to withdraw their counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 in proceedings UPC_CFI_616/2025 and UPC_CFI_1439/2025 (EP 2 590 626), the judge-rapporteur of the Hague Local Division allowed GSK to extend its action against Moderna to the mNEXSPIKE product, dismissed Moderna's application to strike material from the…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed the preliminary objections of six Bosch group companies, sued for infringement by Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage, which challenged the Division's internal competence under Article…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_716/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to withdraw its infringement action against Hisense Gorenje Germany GmbH and five other companies following a settlement, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 February 2026, made in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_770/2024) and the revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_556/2025) between Pirelli Tyre s.p.a.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_575/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, on an application for panel review under Rule 333, upheld the rejection of the preliminary objections raised by Sovex Systems B.V.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 February 2026, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (EP 3 401 335 B1), Judge Granata, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, ordered the Registry to release to Genentech and F.
Read the analysisBy order of 12 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_723/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Thom, Judge Visser as judge rapporteur and technically qualified Judge Papa), after an inter partes hearing, granted Align Technology's application for provisional measures based on unitary patent…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_274/2023), given in German, the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Fives ECL SAS's claim for EUR 6,500,000 in damages against REEL GmbH, whose liability for infringing EP 1 740 740 had been finally established by the…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division upholds the infringement action brought by Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Belkin International, Inc., Belkin B.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1648/2025), given in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited to withdraw, before the written procedure closed, its action for infringement of EP 1 954 091 brought on 19 November…
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 11 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_351/2024) and the joined revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_595/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division held Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's EP 3 686 683, on a developer replenishing container, valid and infringed…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 11 February 2026, made in the infringement action on EP 3 065 184 (UPC_CFI_336/2024) and the two joined revocation counterclaims (UPC_CFI_605/2024 and UPC_CFI_607/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the withdrawals that followed a settlement between Maxeon Solar Pte.
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1738/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed the cost application brought by AWM s.r.l. and Schnell s.p.a. against Progress Maschinen & Automation AG until the Court of Appeal rules on the appeal against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 February 2026, given in the infringement action on EP 1 969 839 (UPC_CFI_666/2024) and proceedings UPC_CFI_199/2025, the Hague Local Division allowed the withdrawals that followed the settlement between Adeia Guides Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismissed the request by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd and Adobe Inc.
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_658/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division fixed the costs Curio Bioscience must reimburse to 10x Genomics for the provisional measures proceedings and the main action on EP 2 697 391, following the decision of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that publishing on the Court's website its provisional measures order of 19 December 2025, granted to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_657/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered 10x Genomics, Inc. to reimburse EUR 180,000 in costs to Curio Bioscience Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_449/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that publishing on the Court's website its provisional measures order of 28 November 2025, granted to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 28 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_315/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Labrador Diagnostics' infringement action against six bioMérieux group companies, based on unitary patent EP 3 756 767 on modular point-of-care devices and directed at the VIDAS 3 instrument and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 January 2026 issued after the interim conference (UPC_CFI_727/2024 and UPC_CFI_493/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set the framework for the oral hearing in Agathon v Intercom and KNARR Vertriebs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_999/2025), the panel of the Paris Central Division upheld on review the dismissal of Nanoval's preliminary objection to ALD France's revocation action against EP 3 083 107.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1064/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of Nordmeccanica, defendant to Bobst Manchester's infringement action before the Munich Local Division (EP 3 067 437, vacuum coating method), and changed the…
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