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By an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_2045/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of six Amazon companies, defendants to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings' infringement action before the Mannheim Local Division (EP 2 803 191, image coding),…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1325/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division released to Van Loon Beheer Nederland the unredacted detailed description drawn up by the expert during the inspection of Inverquark's stand at the Aquanale trade fair in Cologne (EP 3…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_808/2025), the Paris Local Division dismissed Guardant Health's application for provisional measures against four Sophia Genetics companies concerning the "MSK-ACCESS powered with SOPHiA DDM" liquid biopsy test.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1506/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance changed the language of Nagravision's infringement action against three Pinterest companies before the Munich Local Division from German to English, the language of EP 3 965…
Read the analysisNon-public details of licence negotiations constitute confidential information within the meaning of Rule 262A, and protection may be extended in advance to all future pleadings relating to those negotiations, to avoid repeated orders, each party retaining the option to seek enhanced protection…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1048/2025), The Hague Local Division allowed BTL Medizintechnik to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 146 335 against Lexter Microelectronic Engineering Systems following a settlement, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn its decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_702/2024 and UPC_CFI_369/2025), the Paris Local Division upholds, as limited, IMC Créations’ unitary patent EP 4 153 830 (lock with a slider and a base plate with a recess), dismisses Mul-T-Lock France’s counterclaim for revocation…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_480/2025), the Milan Central Division refused to admit auxiliary requests 2A to 13A, filed "as a mere precaution" by Flexicare, proprietor of EP 4 185 356, in its rejoinder in Fisher & Paykel Healthcare's revocation…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 15 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_100/2024 and the joined counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_411/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed both claims in the dispute between Ona Patents and Google Ireland and Google Commerce over EP 2 263 098,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025), the Brussels Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of thirteen GC Aesthetics group companies, sued by Establishment Labs for infringement of EP 3 107 487 in thirteen countries including Ireland, Spain, Norway, Switzerland and…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_628/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_125/2025, the Munich Local Division dismissed Emboline's action against AorticLab based on EP 2 129 425 (embolic protection device), directed at the "FLOWer" device.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 January 2026, the full panel of the Munich Local Division granted Heraeus Electronics re-establishment of rights in the one-month period under Rule 151.1 for starting cost-assessment proceedings, following the decision on the merits of 10 October 2025…
Read the analysisA licence agreement concluded with a third party is classified as highly confidential information, access being reserved to three designated persons of the claimant, its economic expert and that expert’s team, and the representatives registered in the parallel proceedings, exhaustively listed.
Read the analysisBy a default decision of 12 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_350/2025), the Paris Central Division, at the request of WhiteWater West Industries, partially revoked American Wave Machines' EP 2 728 089 to the extent of claim 1.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_377/2025 and UPC_CFI_702/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division rejected Primetals Technologies Austria's request under Art.
Read the analysisRuling on Microsoft Corporation’s counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_433/2024), the Paris Central Division revokes in its entirety European patent EP 2 671 173 held by Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy, which concerns the ranking of search results according to the location…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_730/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division assessed the costs that Nera Innovations must reimburse to the Xiaomi companies for the unsuccessful appeal on service of the statement of claim (UPC_CoA_205/2024).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1771/2025), the standing judge of the Paris Central Division dismissed PAPST LICENSING's application against the EPO decision of 10 November 2025 refusing unitary effect for EP 3 327 608.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_648/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 3258692, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_723/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division refused the Angelalign defendants leave to appeal the order of 16 December 2025, which had disregarded late non-infringement arguments in their rejoinder and refused further written pleadings, in the provisional…
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's request for simultaneous interpretation from English into Japanese at the oral hearing in its action…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 057 321 brought by NEC against Shenzhen Transsion and seven other defendants, following a settlement reached before the…
Read the analysisIn ZTE Corporation’s action for infringement of EP 3 905 730 against six Samsung group companies (UPC_CFI_850/2024), coupled with a FRAND counterclaim by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 2 645 714, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_683/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 471 419 brought by Huawei Technologies against Shenzhen Transsion and five other defendants, following a settlement reached before…
Read the analysisSeised by Valeo Systèmes d’Essuyage of an action for infringement of EP 2 671 766 against six Bosch group companies (UPC_CFI_809/2025), the Paris Central Division upholds the preliminary objection of four of them, which are established in Contracting Member States.
Read the analysisBy decision of 22 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_407/2024 and UPC_CFI_686/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted, with each side's consent, the withdrawal of Atlas Global Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 353 901 against three Vantiva companies and of the counterclaim for revocation, and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_936/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, on review, confirmed its ex parte order of 30 September 2025 prohibiting the Amazon companies from seeking an interim licence over InterDigital's portfolio before the UK High Court, or any…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 22 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_314/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_568/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted the mutual withdrawal by Atlas Global Technologies and the Vantiva companies, each with the other side's consent, concerning EP 3186937,…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1598/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered full disclosure to LiNA Medical and its representatives of the expert's detailed description following evidence preservation and inspection measures carried out at Schultz Medical (UK)'s booth at…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_660/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_134/2025, the Mannheim Local Division revoked in full, for France and Germany, Centripetal's patent EP 3 652 914 on accelerating cyberanalysis workflows, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1600/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered full disclosure to LiNA Medical and its representatives of the expert's detailed description following evidence preservation and inspection measures carried out at Tonglu Qianyan Medtech's booth at…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted provisional measures against Shenzhen Moan Technology, the second defendant, in favour of Hewlett-Packard Development Company on the basis of claim 13 of EP 3 835 965 (logic circuitry for…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_834/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on Roborock (HK)'s request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP, revoked in full and with retroactive effect the ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence granted to Ecovacs Robotics…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_437/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_681/2024, the Munich Local Division revoked GXD-Bio's patent EP 3 346 403 for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_494/2025 and UPC_CFI_495/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division ruled on HMD Global's request for production of licences in support of its FRAND defence, in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's actions based on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 December 2025, given in revocation action UPC_CFI_104/2025 and counterclaim for infringement UPC_CFI_364/2025 concerning EP 3 812 870, the Paris Central Division dismissed IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland's request for EUR 500,000 security for costs from Belparts Group.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_716/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_205/2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the counterclaim by Bekaert Combustion Technology and NV Bekaert against Polidoro's patent EP 2 037 175 (premixed burner, especially for…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 December 2025, The Hague Local Division (presiding judge and judge-rapporteur sitting alone) refused a third party's request for access to the file of provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_830/2025, brought by Abbott Diabetes Care against MicroTech Medical (Hangzhou) and…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division revokes Sanofi’s European patent EP 2 493 466 in its entirety. The patent covers cabazitaxel in combination with prednisone or prednisolone for treating metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-based regimen.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the Munich Local Division ordered ASUS Technology Licensing, a claimant seated in Taiwan, to provide EUR 200,000 security for costs within six weeks in its infringement action on EP 3 346 616 against Guangdong OPPO…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, acting on delegation from the panel, declared that the steps taken to serve Cardo Systems' statement of claim (EP 4 240 194) on Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology amount…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 December 2025 made by Judge-rapporteur Schumacher after the interim conference of 4 December (Rule 105.5), in UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024 between Canon and Katun, the Düsseldorf Local Division required English translations of all exhibits and a preliminary estimate…
Read the analysisIn Maxell’s infringement action against Samsung on EP 2 061 230 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_251/2025 and UPC_CFI_769/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division refuses Samsung a six-week extension of its time limit and admits the 44 auxiliary requests filed…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_1849/2025), made without hearing the defendants, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Topsoe A/S, before bringing any action on the merits, to have inspected an electrically heated steam reforming hydrogen plant found at the site of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, made without hearing the respondent four days after the application was filed, the Hamburg Local Division prohibited the Chinese manufacturer Ningbo Blue Pluser Appliance from marketing in fourteen States filter cartridges that fall within Brita's…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 December 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed the withdrawal of Headwater Research's infringement action against Apple and group companies (EP 3 107 243 B1) and of the counterclaim for revocation, each with the other side's consent, and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division dismissed Nanoval's preliminary objection to ALD France's revocation action against EP 3 083 107 B1, together with its request for a stay.
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, The Hague Local Division held inadmissible, and in the alternative dismissed, the defendant's application to set aside the default decision of 21 October 2025 in Amycel's infringement action (EP 1 993 350 B2).
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division stayed, at the parties' joint request, cost proceedings UPC_CFI_775/2025, 776/2025 and 777/2025 between Edwards Lifesciences and the Meril group (EP 3 769 722) pending the decision of the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025, given by the full panel after remittal by the Court of Appeal, the Copenhagen Local Division ordered HGSystem ApS, HGSystem Holding ApS, Infotech Concept ApS and Infotech Holding ApS jointly to pay the Court a…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 December 2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Keysight Technologies Deutschland (UPC_CFI_414/2024) based on EP 3 821 580 B1 on network protection.
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_712/2025), given after a hearing, the Düsseldorf Local Division largely granted the application for provisional measures by F.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Centripetal's request to reopen the oral hearing in its infringement action on EP 3 821 580 against Keysight Technologies, together with its auxiliary request for an expert to examine the…
Read the analysisIn an order dated 4 December 2025 and lodged on 5 December, the Milan Local Division dismissed the request by A.G.A. and A.C.E.F. to review the ex parte order for preservation of evidence of 19 May 2025 granted to 3V Sigma, which…
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division closes the proceedings on Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenged its territorial competence (Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA) in BARCO’s infringement action on EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_806/2025).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 4 December 2025, the Brussels Local Division allowed CooperSurgical to withdraw its infringement action (EP 3 302 292 B1), brought while an EPO opposition was pending, and ordered it to pay the defendants' costs: EUR 105,757.90 to European…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 4 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_307/2025, EP 2 892 442 B1), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set the oral hearing of Aesculap's action against Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and other defendants for 17…
Read the analysisThe Milan Central Division ordered EOFLOW to pay a penalty of EUR 150,000 for violating the preliminary injunction granted by the Court of Appeal on 30 April 2025, on the basis of evidence that EOFLOW had exported 11,520 insulin pump devices to…
Read the analysisIn a Rule 105.5 order of 1 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division recorded the decisions taken at the interim conference of 28 November 2025 in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning concerning EP 3 296 274.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_425/2024 and UPC_CFI_751/2024, the Munich Local Division held EP 2 787 541 (solar cell with a tunnelling layer, TOPCon technology) valid and infringed by the Chint/Astronergy group's ASTRO N modules in Germany,…
Read the analysisIn the infringement action brought by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA against fifteen Moderna group companies (UPC_CFI_619/2025), The Hague Local Division orders of its own motion, under Rule 302.1 RoP, that the single counterclaim for revocation directed at EP 4 066 856 and EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 November 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division largely granted Hewlett-Packard Development Company's application for provisional measures against Zhuhai ouguan Electronic Technology, based on EP 2 826 630 and EP 3 530 469 (ink cartridges).
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025, made in provisional measures proceedings brought by InterDigital against Amazon, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the defendants' representatives to listen to the recording of the hearing of 14 November 2025 at the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed all preliminary objections raised by Adobe, OpenAI, Truepic, Joint Development Foundation Projects and C2PA in KEEEX's infringement action based on EP 2 949 070.
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 November 2025, the Milan Central Division, hearing Pari Pharma’s revocation action against Koninklijke Philips’ EP 3 397 329 B1 (air-flow in a nebulizer head), holds claim 1 as granted to lack novelty but maintains the patent as amended…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division stays Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenges the division’s territorial competence under Art.
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 November 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division corrected the operative part of its order of 25 November 2025 on Topsoe's application for inspection and preservation of evidence against SYPOX and Josef Kerner Energiewirtschafts, based on EP 3 802…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 November 2025 made after the interim conference, Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Central Division set the framework for the hearing in revocation action UPC_CFI_829/2024 brought by UPM-Kymmene Oyj against International N&H Denmark ApS, substituted for Virdia Inc.,…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 November 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Canon's request for a further exchange of written pleadings against Katun and General Plastic Industrial (EP 3 686…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 20 November 2025, the Munich Central Division ruled on BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners' revocation action against EP 4 019 790, a unitary patent held by Raimund Beck Nageltechnik for a nail made predominantly of lignocellulosic material for use in…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Bekaert Binjiang Steel Cord of the expert report drawn up after the inspection carried out on 11 November 2024 at the premises of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_87/2025 and UPC_CFI_488/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings to respond, by 20 November 2025, to the non-infringement and FRAND arguments raised by The Walt Disney Company…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 November 2025, given in Italian, the Milan Local Division held by default that Gastroteam Abbe and the sole trader Marciuliano Attrezzature infringe EP 3 691 454, Morello Forni's unitary patent for a method and machine for shaping…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 November 2025, made without hearing the other side, the Düsseldorf Local Division granted LiNA Medical measures to preserve evidence and for inspection concerning the "disposable morcellator" exhibited by Tonglu Qianyan Medtech at its MEDICA trade fair booth,…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 November 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_187/2024 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_507/2024, the Hague Local Division held Advanced Cell Diagnostics' EP 1 910 572 and EP 2 500 439 (multiplex in situ hybridisation) valid, but found no infringement by…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 November 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request by TP-Link Systems and the other defendants to replace German with English, the language of grant, in the infringement action brought by Huawei before…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1598/2025), made without hearing the defendant the day after the application was filed, the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, rapporteur, Thom and Gillet) ordered an inspection and preservation of evidence at Schultz Medical (UK)'s booth at…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_885/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division released to OTEC Präzisionsfinish and its representatives the unredacted description prepared by the expert after the inspection carried out at STEROS GPA INNOVATIVE's stand at the EMO…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_858/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division rejected Zentiva Portugal's preliminary objection in the infringement action brought by Boehringer Ingelheim International on the basis of EP 1 830 843 (nintedanib).
Read the analysisBy decision of 17 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_541/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Leap Tools to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 3 859 566 against Wizart LLC only, that company being unreachable and described as non-existent.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 November 2025, made without hearing the other side, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Komax Holding to have an expert inspect Jiangsu BOZHIWANG Automation Equipment's "BZW-3005" machine at the Productronica fair in Munich, with regard to claims 1,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_321/2025), the Hague Local Division granted, with the defendants' consent, AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals' withdrawal of its action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 against Troy Chemical and five other companies, following a stay…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 November 2025, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 (preservation of evidence) and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (inspection), the Brussels Local Division largely dismissed the request for review filed by Organon Heist and N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 November 2025, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_837/2024, UPC_CFI_349/2025 and UPC_CFI_394/2025 (EP 2 728 089), the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the request by Surftown, WhiteWater Era, WhiteWater West Industries and Endless Surf for review…
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