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By an additional order of 10 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024, App_35230/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division supplemented, by way of correction, the confidentiality order of 9 September 2025 in Ona Patents v Google Ireland (EP 2 263 098).
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_491/2025, App_35786/2025), the Munich Local Division rejected the application for extension of time limits filed by ECOVACS Europe, second defendant in the infringement action brought by Papst Licensing on European patent EP 3 494 446.
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 September 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024 (App_35230/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Ona Patents' confidentiality request covering its brief of 20 August 2025 and Exhibits KAP 21 to KAP 33, and…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 9 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_240/2023), the Milan Local Division allowed the joint withdrawal of Oerlikon Textile's infringement action against Himson Engineering and of the revocation counterclaim (EP 2 145 848), filed on 22 July 2025, after the hearing of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_495/2025, App_34320/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, granted the application of HMD Global Oy, defendant to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action on European patent EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_724/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division restricted to Suinno's managing director and representative access to the lawyers' invoices lodged by Microsoft in the cost proceedings concerning EP 2 671 173.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, App_36126/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejected TCL Europe's request for a two-week extension, to 24 September 2025, of the time limit for its reply to the defence to revocation and its…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_629/2025, App_34566/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_202/2025, App_30486/2025), the Milan Local Division confirmed the settlement reached between Edwards Lifesciences and Sintec and Value Med in provisional measures proceedings based on European patent EP 3 646 825, and ordered only the redacted…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_551/2025, App_34568/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 5 September 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Ona Patents to withdraw its infringement action against five Apple group companies (EP 2 263 098) and permitted the withdrawal of the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024 and UPC_CFI_729/2024, App_34668/2025), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Keysight Technologies' application to stay Centripetal's infringement action on European patent EP 3 821 580, and the counterclaim for revocation, pending the outcome of the EPO…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_610/2025), the presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, acting for the judge-rapporteur, granted the request of Xiaomi Technology Germany, the fifth defendant in UERAN Technology's infringement action (EP 2 385 739), to set a…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_552/2025, ORD_36084/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division declared inadmissible the request for a decision by default made by Gilead Sciences in its revocation action against the Academy of Military Medical Sciences' patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, claimant in the infringement action on European patent EP 3 567 731, to provide security for costs of EUR 100,000 in favour of MediaTek…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_834/2025, ACT_35974/2025), made without hearing the other side, the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Ecovacs Robotics to carry out an inspection and preserve evidence, at the IFA 2025 trade fair in Berlin, concerning three robot vacuum…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_801/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Belparts' application to have its action for infringement of EP 3 812 870 against IMI Hydronic International and IMI Hydronic Engineering AB heard together with the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_449/2025, App_33210/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Hewlett-Packard Development provisional measures against Andreas Rentmeister e.K., a German reseller of type 937 ink cartridges, on the basis of European patents EP 2 826 630 and EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025 and UPC_CFI_401/2025, ORD_35979/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the request of parties negotiating a settlement, stayed the Jinko companies' infringement action against the LONGi companies and two other defendants (EP 4…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_380/2023), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division dismissed the requests for rectification filed by Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants against the decision on the merits of 21 July 2025 in favour of Edwards Lifesciences (EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_258/2025, ORD_32540/2025), the Paris Central Division dismissed Seoul Viosys' preliminary objection to the revocation action brought by Emporia UK and Ireland against EP 3 926 698.
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_848/2024 and UPC_CFI_612/2025), the standing judge of the Munich Local Division, with Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany's consent, extended to 5 September 2025 KNAPP Smart Solutions' time limits for the reply, the defence to the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_374/2025, ORD_32992/2025), the Hague Local Division dismissed the application for provisional measures brought by Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon against RiVOLUTiON on the unitary patent EP 3 689 262 for surgical staple cartridges.
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, ORD_33879/2025), the Mannheim Local Division declared terminated, following Blankenhorn's cease-and-desist undertaking and nil disclosure, the provisional measures proceedings Faro Technologies had brought against it on EP 4 001 835, and ordered it to bear…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_807/2024 and UPC_CFI_334/2025, App_28536/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division denied Wonderland Nurserygoods' application for leave to change its claim in its action for infringement by equivalence of EP 1 905 615 against Cybex…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_455/2024 and UPC_CFI_684/2024), the Hague Local Division dismissed both City Glass and Glazing Private Limited's infringement action against four Maars group companies and their counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 1 651 838, a glazing system…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, ORD_35704/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division refused Faro Technologies reimbursement of 60% of the court fees attributable to its application for provisional measures (EP 4 001 835), withdrawn on 26 August 2025…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_453/2025, ORD_35458/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, with the parties' agreement, harmonised the time limits in Eyesmatch's infringement action against five Samsung companies (EP 2 936 439).
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_521/2024, ORD_35195/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, at Decathlon's request, disregarded the part of the rejoinder filed by the defendants OWIM, Lidl and Kaufland in the application to amend proceedings that addressed the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, ORD_35509/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, on the joint application of Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development and the LONGi and Energy3000 companies, which are negotiating a settlement, stayed the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with no objection from Hologic, granted the Siemens defendants' confidentiality application in the infringement action on EP 2 352 431 B1 and the counterclaim for revocation: information on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_33090/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division classified as confidential the information on Dainese's financial situation filed in the security for costs application brought by the defendants, including Alpinestars.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (ORD_33611/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the law firm Taylor Wessing, acting as a member of the public, access in redacted form to six pleadings in NEC's infringement action against TCL (UPC_CFI_487/2023,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_33901/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, a claimant established in China, to provide MediaTek Germany with security for costs of EUR 150,000 within six weeks in the infringement action…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_64/2024, application No. 22894/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_688/2025, ORD_35448/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Johansson) refused to allow MED-EL's statement of claim in its infringement action concerning EP 4 074 373 to be served on Zhejiang Nurotron Biotechnology through…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_65/2024, application No. 22897/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2024, application No. 22885/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 22 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_35225/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with the agreement of all parties, stayed the proceedings on Inventronics' application for access to the file under Rule 262.1(b) in the case between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2024 and, for the counterclaim for revocation, UPC_CFI_564/2024), the Munich Local Division largely revoked Brita's EP 2 387 547 (a valve actuating device for a filter jug), maintaining it as amended by auxiliary request 16,…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_35006/2025), the presiding judge and rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge U. Voß) largely granted the confidentiality application lodged by Huawei on 15 August 2025 in its infringement action against MediaTek concerning…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_580/2025, App_35159/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed Tridonic's infringement action against Inventronics concerning EP 2 011 218 in view of ongoing settlement discussions.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024, ORD_35239/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman) rejected Black Sheep Retail Products' application to deposit two physical objects (exhibits BB38) in HL Display's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_115/2024 and UPC_CFI_377/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division closed the interim procedure in Hartmann Packaging's action against Omni-Pac Ekco and Omni-Pac for infringement of EP 2 755 901 (moulded fibre egg packaging) and in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request by Black Sheep Retail Products, defendant to HL Display's infringement action (EP 2 432 351), to deposit three physical objects.
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_494/2025, ORD_34789/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) rejected HMD Global's application for a one-month extension of the time limit for its statement of defence in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_131/2025, ORD_35065/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division (Judge Granata), on the application of OrthoApnea and Vivisol B, corrected a calculation error in the total of the costs decision of 25 July 2025.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_452/2025, ORD_34904/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 30 September 2025 the time limit for the statement of defence of five ASUS group companies, defendants to Wilus Institute of Standards…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025, ORD_34921/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman), with no objection from the Walt Disney group defendants, granted Adeia Guides' application of 5 August 2025, made because exhibits 8…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 August 2025 under Rule 105.5 RoP, following the interim conference of 17 June 2025, Judge Brinkman, judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division, set the oral hearing in HL Display's action for infringement of EP 2 432 351…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 August 2025, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the parties' joint request (App_34891/2025 of 14 August 2025) and stayed until 13 February 2026 the action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 brought by…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 August 2025, issued in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 3 605 534 (UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, App_4256/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Dolby International to file a further written pleading on the FRAND…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, App_44034/2024), Judge Schilling, judge rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, released to UEFA, Kinexon and Kinexon Sports & Media the EUR 56,000 security provided by Ballinno under Rule 158 RoP, ordered its transfer to Kinexon's…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_387/2025, ACT_20368/2025), issued after an inter partes hearing, the Hamburg Local Division (Presiding Judge Klepsch, Judge Schilling as judge rapporteur, and Judge Johansson) partly granted Dyson Technology's application for provisional measures based on EP 3 119…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 13 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_191/2025, App_34218/2025 and App_34202/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly granted the applications by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma for an extension of time in their action for infringement of EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_736/2025), the single judge of The Hague Local Division authorised CJ CheilJedang, without hearing the defendants, to seize three bags of Daesang's powdered L‑lysine and copies of commercial and technical documents at a Dutch warehouse in…
Read the analysisBy decision of 13 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024 and CC_53523/2024), The Hague Local Division (Presiding Judge Brinkman as judge rapporteur, Judges Rinkinen and Kokke and Technical Judge Sanchini) dismissed Winnow Solutions' infringement action against Orbisk and, on the counterclaim, revoked EP 3…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_739/2025), The Hague Local Division, sitting as a single judge and without hearing the defendants, allowed CJ CheilJedang to carry out a seizure of evidence at a Dutch warehouse storing liquid L-lysine made by the Daesang…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 12 August 2025, issued in American Wave Machines' action for infringement of EP 2 728 089 against Surftown, WhiteWater Era, WhiteWater West Industries and Endless Surf and in the joined counterclaims for revocation (UPC_CFI_837/2024, UPC_CFI_349/2025 and UPC_CFI_394/2025), the…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 12 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_496/2025, ACT_26508/2025, App_34519/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the joint application of Headwater Research and the five defendant Samsung Electronics companies, replaced German with English, the language in which EP 3 110 072 was granted,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2025, ACT_7504/2025), Judge Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered Syntorr, a Cypriot company and claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 835 470, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Syntorr, claimant in an infringement action against three Arthrex companies (EP 2 670 898), to provide security for the defendants' costs of EUR 2,000,000 in total…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_66435/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) dismissed the AYLO defendants' application to fix the lawyers' fees incurred in responding to the appeal, eventually withdrawn, that DISH Technologies and Sling…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_628/2025), the standing judge of the Milan Central Division (Judge Postiglione, sitting alone under Rule 97.4 RoP and Article 19 of the Statute) dismissed the action brought by Bodycap, CNRS and Université de Rennes against the…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_807/2024 and UPC_CFI_334/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Schumacher as judge rapporteur, Judge Bessaud and technically qualified Judge Roselinger) decided, with the parties' consent, to hear both Wonderland Nurserygoods' infringement action against Cybex…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_550/2025, ACT_29036/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, through its presiding judge and judge rapporteur, Judge Thomas, asked the President of the Court of First Instance, with the parties' consent, to add to the panel a technically qualified…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_162/2024, ACT_17365/2024, App_33935/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 20 August 2025 the time allowed to NUC Electronics to comment on Hurom's request for a penalty payment, which alleges insufficient…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_829/2024, ACT_67479/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (Judge Kupecz) refused UPM-Kymmene, claimant in the revocation action against International N&H Denmark concerning EP 2 611 800, a further exchange of written pleadings after the…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_140/2024 and UPC_CFI_658/2025, App_33044/2025), Judge Thomas, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, classified as confidential the information highlighted in the application for a costs decision filed on 16 July 2025 by 10x…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_617/2025, ACT_10280/2025 and CC_32138/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division confirmed, on two applications by Moderna under Rule 262A RoP, the confidentiality regime agreed with Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025, ORD_33620/2025), Judge Voß, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, classified as confidential the information on licence negotiations between Huawei and the MediaTek group contained in MediaTek Germany's request for production…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling) dismissed N.J Diffusion's action for literal and equivalent infringement against Gisela Mayer based on EP 2 404 516, concerning a wig.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the confidentiality application of MediaTek Germany, defendant in Huawei Technologies' infringement action (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisBy a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_123/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division fixed the costs recoverable by Samsung Bioepis NL from Alexion Pharmaceuticals for the provisional measures proceedings dismissed on 26 June 2024 (EP 3 167 888, Epysqli).
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's request of 25 July 2025 under Rule 36 for leave to file a further written pleading in its infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc.
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