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By order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_218/2024, APL_25922/2024, App_29005/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Volkswagen's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 dismissing its application for security for costs in Network System…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_223/2024, APL_25951/2024, App_27157/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Texas Instruments' request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 dismissing its application for security for costs in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_221/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Audi's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's refusal to order Network System Technologies (NST) to provide security for legal costs (EP 1 552 669).
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_220/2024, APL_25924/2024, App_28999/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Volkswagen's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_515/2023), which had dismissed its application for security for costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_222/2024, APL_25928/2024, App_28997/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Volkswagen's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_513/2023), which had dismissed its application for security for costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_219/2024, APL_25923/2024, App_29007/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Audi's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_515/2023), which had dismissed its application for security for costs…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_217/2024, APL_25919/2024, App_29006/2024), the Court of Appeal (second panel) rejected Audi's request to expedite its appeal against the Munich Local Division's order of 23 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_514/2023), which had dismissed its application for security for costs…
Read the analysisBy decision of 13 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_1/2024, APL_8/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of VusionGroup (formerly SES-imagotag) against the Munich Local Division's order of 20 December 2023 refusing provisional measures against four Hanshow group companies based on the unitary patent…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_177/2024, APL_20002/2024, App_20143/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal (P. Blok) granted suspensive effect to the appeal brought by Progress Maschinen & Automation AG against the order of the Milan Local Division of 8…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 May 2024 (UPC_CoA_183/2024), the panel of the Court of Appeal, on Daedalus Prime's request for review under Rule 333 RoP, confirmed the judge-rapporteur's order of 29 April 2024 refusing to extend the time limit for lodging the statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 April 2024 (UPC_CoA_500/2023), the Court of Appeal held admissible AIM Sport Development's appeal against the Helsinki Local Division's rejection of its application for provisional measures against five Supponor companies (EP 3 295 663), although it was lodged within…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 April 2024 (UPC_CoA_101/2024), the Court of Appeal set aside the order of the President of the Court of First Instance of 26 February 2024 and determined English, the language of EP 2 697 391, as the language of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 April 2024 (UPC_CoA_79/2024, APL_9578/2024, App_17551/2024), the Court of Appeal (Kalden, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Simonsson, Rombach) rejected Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA's request for a decision by default against the appeal of Neo Wireless GmbH & Co KG.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2024 (UPC_CoA_404/2023), the Court of Appeal dismissed Ocado Innovation's appeal against the order of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division granting a member of the public access to the statement of claim filed against the Autostore companies, the…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 April 2024 (UPC_CoA_86/2024, App_17640/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal held that the statement of appeal and the statement of grounds of appeal filed by Panasonic against a procedural order of the Mannheim Local Division of 9…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2024, issued in five joined appeals (UPC_CoA_433/2023, UPC_CoA_435/2023, UPC_CoA_436/2023, UPC_CoA_437/2023 and UPC_CoA_438/2023), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of Juul Labs International, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_101/2024, App_12137/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected, without examining its merits, the application for protection of confidential information filed by Curio Bioscience in its appeal against the refusal to change the language of the provisional measures…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_486/2023, APL_595643/2023), the Court of Appeal set aside the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division of 11 December 2023, which had held inadmissible Netgear's request under Rule 333 RoP for the panel to…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_5/2024, PR_APL_189/2024), made under Rule 229.5 RoP, the President of the Court of Appeal rejected as inadmissible Abbott's appeal against the confidentiality order made on 19 December 2023 by the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_36/2024, APL_4881/2024), the Court of Appeal partly set aside the order of the Munich Local Division of 18 January 2024, under which the period for Netgear to respond to the extension of Huawei's infringement action to…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2023, APL_576355/2023), the Court of Appeal, in the panel that ruled on NanoString's appeal against 10x Genomics and the President and Fellows of Harvard College (EP 4 108 782), corrected, after hearing the parties, an obvious…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 March 2024 (UPC_CoA_44/2024, APL_5395/2024), the Court of Appeal partly set aside the order of the Munich Local Division of 18 January 2024, under which the period for Netgear to respond to the extension of Huawei's infringement action to…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2023, APL_576355/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with five judges including two technically qualified judges, set aside the order of the Munich Local Division of 19 September 2023 granting the application for provisional measures of 10x…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_335/2023, APL_576355/2023), the Court of Appeal rejected the requests of both parties to stay the proceedings in NanoString's appeal against the provisional measures ordered by the Munich Local Division in favour of 10x Genomics and the…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (APL_5395/2024, App_7580), the Court of Appeal rejected Netgear's application to shorten the 15-day period available to Huawei to respond to the statement of grounds of its appeal, lodged against the order of the Munich Local Division…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_36/2024, APL_4881/2024, App_7573/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Netgear's application to shorten the 15-day period available to Huawei to respond to the statement of grounds of its appeal, lodged against the order of the Munich Local…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_2/2024, APL_83/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal set at EUR 11,000 the fee payable for Meril's appeal against the costs decision of the Munich Local Division of 19 December 2023, made when closing…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 February 2024 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the Court of Appeal held that a member of the public requesting access to documents on the register under Rule 262.1(b) RoP must be represented before the UPC, and gave him 14 days to…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_4/2024, App_100/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected Meril's application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the costs decision of the Munich Local Division of 19 December 2023, given after provisional measures proceedings brought by Edwards…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_486/2023, App_595643/2023), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal granted Netgear's application for discretionary review and gave it leave to appeal the order of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division of 11 December 2023,…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 January 2024 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the Court of Appeal held inadmissible the applications of two firms, Mathys & Squire LLP and Bristows (Ireland) LLP, to intervene in Ocado's appeal against an order granting a third party access to its…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_478/2023, App_594342/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with its three legally qualified judges only, rejected the application by OPPO and OROPE Germany to shorten Panasonic's time limit for responding to their appeal against the refusal to…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_476/2023, App_594339/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with three legally qualified judges, rejected an application by Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany to shorten the time limit for Panasonic Holdings Corporation's response to their statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_472/2023, App_594327/2023), the Court of Appeal, sitting with three legally qualified judges, rejected an application by Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany to shorten the time limit for Panasonic Holdings Corporation's response to their statement…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 December 2023 (UPC_CoA_404/2023, App_584498/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal set the course of Ocado Innovation's appeal against the order of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division of 17 October 2023 granting a member of the public access…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 November 2023 (UPC_CoA_407/2023, App_584588/2023), the standing judge of the Court of Appeal, acting in extreme urgency, granted suspensive effect to Ocado Innovation's appeal against the order of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (ORD_573437/2023) that gave a third party access,…
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