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In a decision of 27 October 2026, issued in German (UPC_CFI_714/2025, UPC_CFI_3019/2026 and UPC_CFI_3020/2026, EP 4 283 140), the Munich Central Division rules on cross-applications for cost assessment following the decision of 21 July 2026 that partially revoked the patent and allocated…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order issued in French and dated 26 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2296/2025, EP 1 740 740), the Munich Central Division, sitting as a full panel, rejects Fives ECL’s request to hear the parties’ legal experts in person in the revocation action…
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_523/2025), the Munich Central Division, on Wittenstein's stand-alone revocation action, revoked Vestas Wind Systems' European patent with unitary effect EP 4 226 039 (wind turbine power transmission system) in respect of claims 21 and 22 only,…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 27 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_894/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division takes note of SYPOX's withdrawal of the unredacted version of an investment agreement (exhibit D36), filed to show its SME status in the action for revocation…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 21 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_714/2025), the Munich Central Division partially revokes BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners' European patent with unitary effect EP 4 283 140, relating to a wooden fastening element, on the revocation action of Raimund Beck Nageltechnik: claim 1…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_830/2024), the Munich Central Division resumes the revocation action brought by UPM-Kymmene against International N&H Denmark, which had been stayed pending the EPO proceedings, and disposes of it as devoid of purpose (Rule 360 RoP):…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 8 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_280/2025), the Munich Central Division dismisses the revocation action brought by WIRPLAST Więcek Spółka Jawna against VILPE's EP 2 649 380 B1, concerning an accessory for an exhaust ventilation pipe with an integrated circular spirit…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2296/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejects the preliminary objection of Fives ECL, proprietor of EP 1 740 740, which argued lack of standing and res judicata based on German decisions against REEL…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_337/2025), the Munich Central Division held unfounded TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning's EP 3 296 274 B1, which concerns a downdraw process for alkali-free glass sheets fined with tin, in force in France and…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_829/2024), the Munich Central Division revoked in its entirety International N&H Denmark's EP 2 611 800, which concerns a xylose-rich sugar composition, for Austria, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, at the request of…
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 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 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 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 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 14 July 2025 following the interim conference of 11 July (UPC_CFI_836/2024), the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) prepared the oral hearing in the revocation action against EP 4 019 790 brought by BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners against Raimund Beck…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 27 June 2025, the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) summoned BAUSSMANN Collated Fasteners and Raimund Beck Nageltechnik to an interim conference by videoconference on 11 July 2025, in the revocation action against claims 1 to 4 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, EP 3 296 274), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Central Division) ruled on two applications in TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning Incorporated.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division stayed, with effect from 21 May 2025 and at the joint request of the parties, who are negotiating a settlement, the revocation action brought by Kunststoff KG Nehl…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_526/2024, ORD_18972/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Central Division prepared the oral hearing in the revocation action brought by Kunststoff KG Nehl & Co.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_829/2024, ACT_67479/2024, ORD_7966/2025), the Munich Central Division (Judge-rapporteur Kupecz) substituted International N&H Denmark ApS for Virdia Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_252/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (Judge Kupecz) granted Berggren Oy access to the written pleadings and evidence in NanoString Technologies Europe's revocation action against President and Fellows of Harvard College (EP2794928), which…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ACT_551180/2023), the Munich Central Division rejected NanoString Technologies Europe Limited's request to release the EUR 300,000 security for costs it had provided in its action for revocation of EP 2 794 928 against President…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the Munich Central Division (U. Voß, presiding, A. Kupecz, rapporteur, and P.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47235/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz) granted the firm Dehns access to the written pleadings and evidence recorded in the counterclaim for revocation CC_586764/2023 between Regeneron and Amgen concerning EP 3 666…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47230/2024, UPC_CFI_1/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division granted the firm Dehns, as a member of the public, access to the written pleadings and evidence relating to the application to amend the patent (APP_590836/2023) filed…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (ORD_47238/2024, UPC_CFI_1/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division granted the firm Dehns, as a member of the public, access to the written pleadings and evidence in the revocation action (ACT_459505/2023) recorded in the Sanofi v…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_252/2023), the Munich Central Division upheld NanoString Technologies Europe’s revocation action against EP 2 794 928 of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, which concerns a method of detecting multiple analytes through successive hybridisations…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023, ORD_591107/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz) refused to admit a further written submission dated 22 July 2024 and two expert reports (BP25 and BP26) filed by President and Fellows of Harvard College, defendant…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 July 2024, the Munich Central Division (U. Voß, presiding, A. Kupecz, rapporteur, P.
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 16 July 2024, the Munich Central Division ruled on the revocation action brought by Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Sanofi-Aventis Groupe and Sanofi Winthrop Industrie S.A.
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 16 July 2024, the Munich Central Division ruled on Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ counterclaim for revocation against Amgen’s EP 3 666 797, which protects, in medical use format, a monoclonal antibody binding to the catalytic domain of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 March 2024 following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023, order no. 598255), the judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 March 2024 following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ACT_465342/2023, order no. 598256), the judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 February 2024 (ORD_10396/2024 and ORD_10398/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division decided, with the agreement of all parties, to deal jointly with Sanofi's revocation action against Amgen's EP 3 666 797 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ACT_459505/2023) and Regeneron's counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ORD_2233/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division admitted into Sanofi's revocation action against Amgen's EP 3 666 797 a six-page letter and expert declarations responding to points first raised in the rejoinder, and refused…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ACT_465342/2023, App_577540/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (U. Voß, presiding, A. Kupecz, judge-rapporteur, P.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ACT_465342/2023, App_584332/2023), the judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz) ruled on the request of Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, claimant in the revocation action against EP 3 056 564,…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ORD_574057/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division ordered NanoString Technologies Europe, claimant in the revocation action against President and Fellows of Harvard College's EP 2 794 928, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_75/2023, ACT_464985/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich section of the Central Division, in Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine's revocation action against EP 3 056 563 held by Healios, Riken and Osaka University, ruled that the…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_80/2023, ORD_579545/2023, ACT_465342/2023), the judge-rapporteur of Panel 1 of the Munich Central Division (A. Kupecz), in Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine's revocation action against EP 3 056 564 held by Healios K.K and Osaka University,…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ACT_551180/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division informed the parties that the preliminary objection lodged by President and Fellows of Harvard College, defendant to NanoString Technologies Europe's revocation action against EP 2 794 928…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 August 2023 (UPC_CFI_1/2023, ACT_459505/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich section of the Central Division rejected Amgen's preliminary objection to Sanofi's revocation action against EP 3 666 797.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 29 June 2023, the Munich section of the Central Division admitted as exhibits to the statement for revocation the documents filed by Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland, Sanofi-Aventis Groupe and Sanofi Winthrop Industrie by way of a generic procedural application (No.
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