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In an order of 28 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the Munich Local Division, sitting as a full panel, rules on Edwards Lifesciences’ request to lay open books within its application for the determination of damages following the final decision of 4 April 2025…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1209/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_731/2026), Matthias Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1a of the Munich Local Division acting as judge-rapporteur, closes the interim procedure in the action brought by Steindl Krantechnik Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 October 2026, the Munich Local Division, sitting with a technically qualified judge, rejected as out of time a request for review under Rule 333 RoP against point 6 of its order of 15 September 2026.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 October 2026, issued in German, the Munich Local Division arranged service on Sercomm Italia SRL of two orders in its dispute with Huawei Technologies over EP 3 611 989 B1.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_676/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants the request of the four Xiaomi defendants in AX Wireless, LLC's infringement action on EP 3 072 324 for a refund of EUR 4,900 overpaid on…
Read the analysisThe Munich local division revokes the European part of Maxell’s patent for lack of novelty and dismisses the infringement action. The decision confirms that an auxiliary request drawn from the description does not escape an obviousness objection where it merely adds a…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2307/2026), the Munich Local Division granted Oxford Nanopore Technologies' application for provisional measures against MGI TECH GmbH, based on EP 2 422 198 and EP 2 715 343 and directed at the Cyclone sequencing platform (CycloneSEQ…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division stayed Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action against seven Hyundai companies, together with the counterclaim for revocation, until the EPO's final decision on the appeal against the revocation of…
Read the analysisBy decision of 15 September 2026, given in the infringement action UPC_CFI_465/2025 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1121/2025, the Munich Local Division held the Netflix companies' counterclaim unfounded and DivX's infringement action well founded (paragraph 71).
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2280/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the request by Influx Technologies USA, Influx Technologies Limited and two further defendants for security for costs of EUR 112,000 against IAGON, a company based in the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 17 August 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_492/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1309/2025, the Munich Local Division dismisses the Roborock companies' preliminary objection and then PAPST LICENSING's infringement action based on EP 3 030 943 (a method for…
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 August 2026 under Rule 105.5 RoP following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division organises the damages proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1569/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division fixes the costs recoverable by Niche Biomedical, Inc. (ANEUVO) from ONWARD Medical N.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 29 July 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_515/2026 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_1797/2026 (EP 1 955 151), the panel of the Munich Local Division rejects CA, Inc.'s application for review (Rule 333.1 RoP) of the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order of 22…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 July 2026, given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1746/2026 and UPC_CFI_1747/2026, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division ruled on the request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) filed by Shanghai Huaming Power Equipment against the inspection and preservation order…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 July 2026, issued in German in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1751/2026 and UPC_CFI_1752/2026, the Munich Local Division, ruling on a request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP, supplemented the confidentiality provisions of an inspection and preservation of evidence order…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 July 2026 given in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1746/2026 and UPC_CFI_1747/2026, the Munich Local Division, on an application for review (Rule 197.3 RoP), supplements the inspection and preservation of evidence order it had made without hearing the other…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_2307/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected MGI TECH GmbH's (Respondent 1) application to extend to 31 July 2026, or at least to 27 July, the deadline of 24 July for its objection…
Read the analysisFollowing an early interim hearing, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set, by order of 8 July 2026 (Rule 105.5), the timetable for Huawei Technologies Co.
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants Edwards Lifesciences, in the damages proceedings brought against Meril after the infringement decision of 4 April 2025 (EP 3 669 828), a two-day extension, until 1…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 June 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division confirms that the OPPO companies’ reply in the counterclaim for revocation of EP 3 346 616 was filed in time, although it had been lodged on 3 June 2026…
Read the analysisIn the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_293/2025 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_868/2025 (counterclaim for revocation) concerning EP 2 661 892, the Munich Local Division allows the mutual withdrawals of Nokia Technologies Oy and of the defendants Acer, Inc., Acer Computer GmbH and CPYou B.V., five days…
Read the analysisIn the action for infringement of EP 3 016 464 brought by Advanced Standard Communication LLC against Motorola Mobility LLC and three other defendants, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants Rule 262A protection for information in the rejoinder on the…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 1 June 2026, following a settlement reached during the written procedure, the Munich Local Division allows Nokia Technologies Oy to withdraw infringement action UPC_CFI_661/2025 concerning EP 4 090 075, and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisFollowing the interim conference of 30 April 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_196/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_665/2025 concerning EP 2 403 266, held by Maxell, Ltd., the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division sets the value of the proceedings and organises the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1148/2026), the Munich Local Division admits the withdrawal, consented to by Melitta, of Miele's application for provisional measures concerning vacuum cleaner bags (EP 4 676 295 B1), made after the panel indicated that the validity…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2026, Panel 2 of the Munich Local Division corrects, on the ground of clerical error, its order of 23 April 2026 in the infringement action brought by Advanced Standard Communication LLC against XIAOMI Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_642/2025), the full panel of the Munich Local Division rejects ScanBelt's second application to postpone the oral hearing set for 8 December 2026 in Laitram's infringement action (EP 3 251 983), and refuses leave to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_714/2024 and UPC_CFI_155/2025, the Munich Local Division refuses to stay the case pending the opposition against EP 3 685 783, even though the EPO Opposition Division revoked the patent after…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1234/2025), the Munich Local Division upholds its judge-rapporteur's decision of 27 January 2026 granting the law firm Quinn Emanuel partial, redacted access to the pleadings in Huawei v MediaTek (UPC_CFI_248/2025 and UPC_CFI_668/2025, EP 3 905…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_64/2024 and UPC_CFI_450/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 875 683 concerning an integrated circuit with an on-chip communication…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_65/2024 and UPC_CFI_451/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 552 399 concerning an integrated circuit and a method for…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 26 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1235/2025, EP 4 142 215), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division amended his own order of 27 January 2026, which had largely granted the law firm Quinn Emanuel access to the parties' written…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division upholds the infringement action brought by Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Belkin International, Inc., Belkin B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1064/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of Nordmeccanica, defendant to Bobst Manchester's infringement action before the Munich Local Division (EP 3 067 437, vacuum coating method), and changed the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1506/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance changed the language of Nagravision's infringement action against three Pinterest companies before the Munich Local Division from German to English, the language of EP 3 965…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_628/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_125/2025, the Munich Local Division dismissed Emboline's action against AorticLab based on EP 2 129 425 (embolic protection device), directed at the "FLOWer" device.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 January 2026, the full panel of the Munich Local Division granted Heraeus Electronics re-establishment of rights in the one-month period under Rule 151.1 for starting cost-assessment proceedings, following the decision on the merits of 10 October 2025…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_437/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_681/2024, the Munich Local Division revoked GXD-Bio's patent EP 3 346 403 for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division revokes Sanofi’s European patent EP 2 493 466 in its entirety. The patent covers cabazitaxel in combination with prednisone or prednisolone for treating metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-based regimen.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the Munich Local Division ordered ASUS Technology Licensing, a claimant seated in Taiwan, to provide EUR 200,000 security for costs within six weeks in its infringement action on EP 3 346 616 against Guangdong OPPO…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_425/2024 and UPC_CFI_751/2024, the Munich Local Division held EP 2 787 541 (solar cell with a tunnelling layer, TOPCon technology) valid and infringed by the Chint/Astronergy group's ASTRO N modules in Germany,…
Read the analysisIn an order of 18 November 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request by TP-Link Systems and the other defendants to replace German with English, the language of grant, in the infringement action brought by Huawei before…
Read the analysisBy a reasoned order of 11 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_771/2025 and UPC_CFI_802/2025, EP 2 147 029), the panel of the Munich Local Division, on review under Rule 333, confirmed the admission to the confidentiality club of two individuals from the Syensqo group, to…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_743/2025, EP 4 003 084), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Munich Local Division, granted the application of the Skechers companies, the defendants, and changed the language of…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_729/2025, EP 3 614 263), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered ParTec, the second claimant and patent proprietor, to provide security for costs of EUR 80,500 in favour of NVIDIA Corporation and NVIDIA GmbH…
Read the analysisBy decision of 20 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, EP 3 297 043), the Munich Local Division permitted Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development to withdraw its infringement action against LONGi Solar Technologie, three other companies and an individual, following a settlement with the four…
Read the analysisBy decision of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_404/2025 and UPC_CFI_405/2025, EP 3 669 828), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences and Meril Italy to pay Edwards Lifesciences EUR 771,649.56 in costs within 20 days, in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_693/2025, proceedings in German), the Munich Local Division dismissed ONWARD Medical's application for provisional measures against Niche Biomedical (ANEUVO), based on EP 3 421 081 concerning a neuromodulation system and directed at the ExaStim stimulation system…
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, with the agreement of the claimant AX Wireless, aligns the time limits of Xiaomi Technology Germany and Xiaomi Technology Netherlands with those of Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the Munich Local Division allowed the defendants to withdraw their counterclaim for revocation of Brita's patent EP 2 387 547 (UPC_CFI_564/2024, linked to infringement action UPC_CFI_248/2024), although the division had already ruled on the merits…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division revokes claims 1 and 11 of Motorola Mobility’s EP 3 972 309 (split bearer configuration in dual connectivity) for added matter over the parent application, rejects the amendment requests and, as a result, dismisses the infringement action against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 October 2025, given in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_114/2024 (infringement action) and UPC_CFI_448/2024 (counterclaim for revocation, application to amend and application under Rule 362), the Munich Local Division considered Heraeus Electronics' patent EP 3 215 288 on a metal…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2025, common to the four infringement actions brought by Sanofi group companies on European patent EP 2 493 466 (UPC_CFI_145/2024 to UPC_CFI_148/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division summons the two party experts to the oral…
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 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 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 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…
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