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101 decisions recorded
In a procedural order of 30 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1646/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division dismisses Rakuten’s application for Helios Streaming to provide EUR 200,000 as security for costs.
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_495/2025 and UPC_CFI_1131/2025), the Hamburg Local Division upheld Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action against HMD Global based on EP 2 609 590, which concerns the decoding of audio signals containing transients, maintained the patent as worded in Auxiliary…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1321/2026), the Hamburg Local Division rules on CYBEX GmbH's application for provisional measures against NUNA International B.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 July 2026, given in cost proceedings UPC_CFI_1849/2026 and UPC_CFI_1861/2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division orders Teleflex Life Sciences II to reimburse Speed Care Mineral EUR 211,000 (EUR 200,000 in representation costs, the applicable ceiling, and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_360/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division orders Nixu FL IP Protection to provide security of EUR 200,000 for the costs of Infoblox Inc., Infoblox Germany GmbH and Nomios Germany GmbH, sued for infringement…
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_360/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division partly allows the preliminary objection on international jurisdiction raised by Infoblox Inc., a US company sued by Nixu FL IP Protection alongside two German-domiciled defendants for infringement…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_387/2025), the Hamburg Local Division allowed Dyson Technology to withdraw its request for a penalty payment against Dreame International (Hongkong), based on alleged breach of the provisional measures.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 3 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1661/2025), the Hamburg Local Division permits, with the consent of the seven defendants (LYNK & CO International AB, Zeekr, Lotus and Smart Europe companies), the withdrawal of the infringement action brought by Sun Patent Trust…
Read the analysisIn a document of 1 June 2026 combining the summary of the interim conference with a procedural order, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_494/2025 and UPC_CFI_495/2025 (with counterclaims for revocation), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division prepares the oral hearing of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_962/2026), the Hamburg Local Division confirms the settlement reached on 21 May 2026, the day of the oral hearing, between Dreame International (Hong Kong) Limited and Dyson Technology Limited in the provisional measures proceedings brought…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_643/2026), the Hamburg Local Division permitted, with the defendants' consent, the withdrawal of the action for infringement of EP 2 184 891 by Avago Technologies International Sales Pte.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_673/2026), the Hamburg Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 509 263 brought on 20 February 2026 by Avago Technologies International Sales against three Renault companies, which consented, and declared the…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_553/2025), the Hamburg Local Division ordered two Lepu Medical group companies to pay the Court EUR 58,800 for failing to comply with the injunction granted on 21 October 2025 under Occlutech's EP 2 387 951 on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 7 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_481/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division upholds the defendants' preliminary objections and dismisses as inadmissible SILIMED's infringement action against Polytech Health & Aesthetics and seven other defendants, since the UPC lacks competence over…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_388/2025), the Hamburg Local Division rules on Horl 1993's infringement action against Magna-Tec concerning the 'Trinity-S' knife sharpener, under the unitary patent EP 4 117 857 B1 (roller sharpener).
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1881/2025), the Hamburg Local Division orders Ningbo Blue Pluser Appliance, which failed to comply with the information obligation in the provisional measures order of 9 December 2025 obtained by Brita (EP 2 131 940 B1),…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_851/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division refuses, for the time being, to stay Dyson's infringement action against Dreame and five other defendants (EP 3 119 235), whether pending the Court of Appeal's preliminary…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_685/2024 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_157/2025, the Hamburg Local Division holds that Speed Care Mineral's counterclaim succeeds and that Teleflex Life Sciences II's action against the SpeedM haemostatic dressing must…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 analysisBy an order of 6 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1443/2025), given without hearing the defendant on the day after the application was filed, the Hamburg Local Division granted Brita SE's application for provisional measures against Fileder Filter Systems Spółka z o.o., a Polish supplier…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 5 November 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_461/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_718/2024, the Hamburg Local Division, sitting with a technically qualified judge, ruled on the dispute between Dolle A/S and four FAKRO companies over EP 2 476…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_555/2024), issued after the interim conference of 22 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division ruled on the admissibility of a series of documents and arguments in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo…
Read the analysisBy a summary of the interim conference of 22 October 2025 with orders, dated 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_537/2024, EP 2 579 551), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division admitted everything in dispute in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo Co.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_688/2025), the Hamburg Local Division confirmed, under Rule 365.1, the settlement of 10 September 2025 ending MED-EL's infringement action on EP 4 074 373 against two Nurotron companies.
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 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 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 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 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 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 analysisIn a decision of 10 July 2025, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_173/2024 and UPC_CFI_424/2024, the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Nera Innovations’ infringement action against four Xiaomi group companies and partially revoked EP 2 642 632 (wireless power receiver), maintaining it in…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Schilling (Hamburg Local Division) stayed for three months the whole of Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisThe Hamburg Local Division granted Lionra re-establishment of rights for the Rule 151 period, which expired on 19 March 2025, within which it had to start cost proceedings following the merits decision of 19 February 2025 against Cisco (EP 2 201 740).
Read the analysisBy order of 30 May 2025, the Hamburg Local Division ordered Easee B.V., Yves Prevoo and Easee Holding B.V. to provide joint security of EUR 75,000 for the costs of Visibly, proprietor of EP 3 918 974 (UPC_CFI_525/2024).
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division rejected the preliminary objection to jurisdiction raised by Epson France in Dolby International's infringement action on EP 3 605 534 against five Epson companies (UPC_CFI_77/2025).
Read the analysisOn a request for panel review (Rule 333), the Hamburg Local Division upheld the judge rapporteur's refusal of the application for security for costs brought by Chint New Energy Technology and the Astronergy companies against JingAo Solar, the Chinese claimant in the…
Read the analysisBy decision of 30 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_278/2023), the Hamburg Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding, Schilling, judge-rapporteur, Lignières and Sarlin, technically qualified judge) dismissed AGFA NV's infringement action against nine Gucci group companies under EP 3 388 490, which concerns the decoration of…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_537/2024, ORD_13311/2025), Judge-rapporteur Schilling of the Hamburg Local Division confirmed as final the preliminary order of 18 March 2025 protecting under Rule 262A the sales and profit figures filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_429/2024, ORD_55997/2024), Judge Sabine Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur at the Hamburg Local Division, dismissed the application for security for costs filed on 7 October 2024 by Chint New Energy Technology and five companies of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_67603/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Schilling) dismissed the preliminary objection of MediaTek Inc., a Taiwanese chip supplier sued by Daedalus Prime together with four Xiaomi group companies for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy order delivered on 21 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_701/2024, ORD_68880/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (Judges Klepsch, presiding and rapporteur, Schilling, Johansson and Meewisse) dismissed Teleflex Life Sciences II's application for provisional measures against Speed Care Mineral based on EP 2 077 811, which…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_58/2024), the Hamburg Local Division ruled on the action brought by Lionra Technologies Ltd. against Cisco Systems GmbH and Cisco Systems, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 16 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, Dr Schilling, permitted Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg to withdraw their application for the determination of costs (UPC_CFI_54/2023) and declared those proceedings closed, after the parties had withdrawn,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_173/2024 and UPC_CFI_424/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) declined to rule during the written procedure on the admissibility of Nera Innovations' auxiliary requests to amend EP 2 642 632, and of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_525/2024, ACT_51510/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection raised by Yves Prevoo, managing director of the defendant Easee B.V., and by Easee Holding B.V., its parent company, in Visibly Inc.'s…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_53958/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_555/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo based on EP 2 579 551, replaced the designation "Nintendo of Europe AG" with "Nintendo of Europe SE", which had succeeded…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, ACT_460565/2023, ORD_49363/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch), in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen, restricted access…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_525/2024, App_55164/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), in Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 before the Hamburg Local Division against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_51859/2024), the panel of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding, S.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, ACT_16267/2024, ORD_40128/2024 and ORD_52214/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Schilling) granted, in redacted form, the request by the firm Powell Gilbert LLP for access to the pleadings and evidence in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_88/2024, ACT_10800/2024, ORD_28786/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_516/2024, ORD_50890/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 26 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2023), the Hamburg Local Division dismissed as unfounded the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales against Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg on EP 1 612 910, and partly upheld the counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in the infringement action brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen on EP 4 108 782, accepted that an application for production…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_278/2023, ACT_561734/2023, ORD_39257/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024, ACT_19012/2024, ORD_43090/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Schilling) rejected the application of Xiaomi Technology Netherlands and Xiaomi Technology Germany, defendants in Daedalus Prime's infringement action on EP 2 792 100, for a two-week…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_124/2024, ORD_38032/2024, proceedings no. 13886/2024), following an oral hearing on 25 June 2024, the Hamburg Local Division (S.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_123/2024, ORD_38059/2024, ACT_13849/2024), following an oral hearing on 25 June 2024, the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, ACT_463258/2023, App 27608/2024, ORD_28831/2024), the Hamburg Local Division, in Avago Technologies International Sales Pte.
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, ORD_33145/2024), the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Ballinno B.V.'s application for provisional measures based on EP 1 944 067 B1, which concerns offside detection, against the Union des Associations Européennes de Football (UEFA), Kinexon GmbH…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 May 2024 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, ORD_23557/2024, ORD_23558/2024 and ORD_23559/2024), the Hamburg Local Division, seised by Ballinno B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_169/2024), the Hamburg Local Division, in Daedalus Prime's infringement action based on EP 2 792 100, refused to allow the statement of claim to be served on Xiaomi Communications and Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisBy a final procedural order of 2 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, ACT_463258/2023, order no.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, App_589355/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division set 8 November 2023 as the start of the period for Avago Technologies International Sales to respond to the counterclaim for revocation of EP 1 612 910…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_559935/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch) upheld REEL GmbH's Preliminary objection and rejected Fives ECL, SAS's application for the UPC to determine the damages owed under a final judgment of the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_54/2023, App_577703/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division finally decided the confidentiality application under Rule 262A RoP of Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg, defendants in Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action on EP 1…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, App_581626/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division extended to 30 November 2023 Vizgen's time limit for its statement of defence in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023, ACT_460565/2023, ORD_49705/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_278/2023, ACT_561734/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in AGFA's infringement action on EP 3 388 490 against nine Gucci group companies, extended for all defendants the time limit for a preliminary objection to 6…
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