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In an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 October 2026 under Rule 105 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division followed up on the interim conference held by videoconference on 27 October 2026 in Establishment Labs’ action for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 October 2026 under Rule 105 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division followed up on the interim conference held by videoconference on 27 October 2026 in Establishment Labs’ action for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026, published in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and in the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, Samuel Granata, closes the interim procedure in the dispute between Barco N.V.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 19 October 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division confirms the oral hearing of 3 November 2026 in the dispute over EP 3 732 827, after the Court of Appeal finally upheld, on 16 October 2026, the…
Read the analysisIn this CAR-T life sciences infringement action, the Brussels Local Division dismissed the defendants' Rule 190 RoP applications for production of evidence directed at documents of the NIH (laboratory notebooks, invention reports, grant files, notice records), rejected the NIH's request to be…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division granted the parties' joint request to amend the timetable for the written procedure (EP 3 841 735).
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026, issued in Dutch, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division ordered In(k)control, proprietor of EP 3 841 735, to provide security for costs of EUR 75,000 in favour of Esko-Graphics and Esko Software, the defendants to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the counterclaim file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and EUR…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the infringement action file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and…
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 analysisBy order of 26 June 2026 (“Order II”), made in infringement action UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_629/2026 concerning EP 3 107 487, the Brussels Local Division rules on the second application for production of evidence brought by the GC Aesthetics defendants…
Read the analysisIn proceedings UPC_CFI_029/2026 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_1934/2026 and UPC_CFI_1940/2026 (counterclaims for revocation) concerning EP 3 689 383, between 2seventy bio, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 June 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_629/2026 concerning EP 3 107 487, the Brussels Local Division grants Establishment Labs S.A.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 7 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_2265/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division assesses, under Rule 150 RoP, the costs owed by Barco to Yealink after the dismissal of the applications for provisional measures based on EP 3 732 827…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1167/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division corrects a clerical mistake (Rule 353 RoP) in the name of one of Genentech and F.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the President of the Court of First Instance dismisses the application by Esko-Software and Esko-Graphics to change the language of the infringement action brought against them by In(k)control before the Brussels Local Division from…
Read the analysisBy 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 analysisIn a decision of 7 October 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_216/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_556/2024 between Cretes and Hyler (patents EP 3 993 602 and EP 4 284 152), the Brussels Local Division confirmed the parties' settlement, closed both proceedings,…
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 order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_131/2025), Judge Granata, judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, ordered the defendant, an individual whose name is redacted, to pay OrthoApnea and VIVISOL B EUR 41,656.64 for the first-instance costs of the infringement action on EP…
Read the analysisBy order issued on 30 May 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 (preservation of evidence) and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (inspection), the Brussels Local Division largely granted, without hearing the defendants, the applications by Genentech and F.
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division dismissed Yealink's application under Rule 353 to rectify the final order of 21 March 2025 issued in the provisional measures proceedings concerning EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_582/2024).
Read the analysisOn OrthoApnea and Vivisol's application for EUR 92,814.62 in costs following their success in the infringement action on EP 2 331 036 against an individual defendant (UPC_CFI_131/2025), the judge rapporteur Granata (Brussels Local Division) stayed the costs proceedings until the Court of…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_582/2024, ORD_68979/2024), the Brussels Local Division (Judges Granata, presiding and rapporteur, Rinkinen, Bessaud and Kitchen, technically qualified) held that it was competent but dismissed, for lack of urgency, Barco's application for provisional measures against Yealink (Xiamen)…
Read the analysisBy decision on the merits of 17 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_376/2023), given in Dutch, the Brussels Local Division dismissed a Belgian orthodontist's action against OrthoApnea and Vivisol B for literal and equivalent infringement of a European patent for a mandibular advancement device.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 October 2024 (ORD_55012/2024), the Brussels Local Division (S. Granata, presiding and rapporteur, A.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_376/2023, ACT_581538/2023), made under Rule 105.5 after the interim conference of 6 September 2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_376/2023, ACT_581538/2023, App_41533/2024), the Brussels Local Division (S. Granata, judge-rapporteur and presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_376/2023, ACT_581538/2023, ORD_37783/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division (S. Granata), in an infringement action on EP 2 331 036 conducted in Dutch against OrthoApnea S.L.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_329/2023, application 574133/2023), the Brussels Local Division, sitting as a single standing judge (Rule 194.4 RoP), allowed without hearing the defendant the seizure, at a symposium in Knokke-Heist on 22 and 23 September 2023, of OrthoApnea's…
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