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By an order of 1 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_848/2024 and UPC_CFI_612/2025), the standing judge of the Munich Local Division, with Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany's consent, extended to 5 September 2025 KNAPP Smart Solutions' time limits for the reply, the defence to the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, ORD_35509/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, on the joint application of Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development and the LONGi and Energy3000 companies, which are negotiating a settlement, stayed the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (ORD_33611/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the law firm Taylor Wessing, acting as a member of the public, access in redacted form to six pleadings in NEC's infringement action against TCL (UPC_CFI_487/2023,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_33901/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, a claimant established in China, to provide MediaTek Germany with security for costs of EUR 150,000 within six weeks in the infringement action…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_64/2024, application No. 22894/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_65/2024, application No. 22897/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2024, application No. 22885/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Voß) rejected the preliminary objection lodged by Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies and Qualcomm Germany in Network System Technologies' infringement action concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2024 and, for the counterclaim for revocation, UPC_CFI_564/2024), the Munich Local Division largely revoked Brita's EP 2 387 547 (a valve actuating device for a filter jug), maintaining it as amended by auxiliary request 16,…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_35006/2025), the presiding judge and rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge U. Voß) largely granted the confidentiality application lodged by Huawei on 15 August 2025 in its infringement action against MediaTek concerning…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2025, ACT_7504/2025), Judge Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered Syntorr, a Cypriot company and claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 835 470, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Syntorr, claimant in an infringement action against three Arthrex companies (EP 2 670 898), to provide security for the defendants' costs of EUR 2,000,000 in total…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025, ORD_33620/2025), Judge Voß, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, classified as confidential the information on licence negotiations between Huawei and the MediaTek group contained in MediaTek Germany's request for production…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the confidentiality application of MediaTek Germany, defendant in Huawei Technologies' infringement action (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024), the Munich Local Division revoked Headwater Research’s EP 2 391 947 in part, to the extent of claims 1, 2, 5, 6, 10 and 35, with effect in Germany and France, and…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 12 August 2025, for both parties, the time limit for comments on a third party's (Taylor Wessing) request for access under Rule 262.1(b)…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_208/2024 and UPC_CFI_504/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the request for access to the file made by Renault SAS, a third party which the proprietor had accused of infringement out of court,…
Read the analysisBy order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025 and UPC_CFI_401/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set the timetable in the infringement action brought by the Jinko companies against LONGi Solar Technologie and other defendants (EP 4 372…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the parties' joint request (Rule 295(d) RoP), stayed Syngenta's infringement action against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro Europe (EP 2 152 073) and the…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_492/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, granted the request of the defendants Beijing Roborock Technology, Roborock Germany and Roborock International, sued for infringement of EP 3 030 943 by PAPST…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_381/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, ruled on the request of Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon, in proceedings against RiVOLUTiON on EP 2 515 768, to be assisted at their…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2025, App_23201/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann, Judge Pichlmaier as judge rapporteur, and Judge Schober) dismissed ALD Vacuum Technologies' application to revoke the order for preservation of evidence and inspection granted to Nanoval on…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024 and UPC_CFI_667/2024), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, summoned Lenovo (Singapore) and the ASUSTek companies to a further interim hearing on FRAND, set for 21 July 2025, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, App_29243/2025), the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) rejected the requests for protection of confidential information filed by the BioNTech and Pfizer companies, defendants to the infringement action under EP 2 401 365 brought by…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) ordered Headwater Research, proprietor of EP 3 110 069, to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 to the three Motorola companies and EUR 100,000 to Flextronics International…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 3 July 2025, the judge rapporteur Zigann (Munich Local Division) dismissed for lack of legal interest Lenovo (Singapore)'s request to extend from 7 to 9 July 2025 its time to reply to the ASUSTek defendants' brief of 13…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 July 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance granted the application of Renault Retail Group Deutschland, Renault Deutschland and Renault S.A.S., defendants in the infringement action brought by Avago Technologies International Sales before the Munich Local…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on cross-applications for security for costs in Headwater Research's infringement action (EP 3 110 072) against three Motorola companies and Flextronics International Europe, all of which…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_245/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the application by SWARCO FUTURIT, claimant in the action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, for Shenzhen Dianming, intervening in support of the defendant,…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 June 2025, the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Zana, Pichlmaier, Wagner), on Zentiva's application for panel review under Rule 333, confirmed the judge rapporteur's case management order of 8 May 2025 in Sanofi's action on EP 2 493 466…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_127/2024, EP 3 110 072), the Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Voß) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by Motorola Mobility, Motorola International Sales, Motorola Mobility Germany and Flextronics International Europe against Headwater Research's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024, EP 3 110 069), the Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Voß) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by Motorola Mobility, Motorola International Sales, Motorola Mobility Germany and Flextronics International Europe against Headwater Research's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, EP 3 742 231), Judge-rapporteur Voß (Munich Local Division) granted the joint request of Esko-Graphics Imaging and the XSYS companies to stay, under Rule 295(d), the infringement action, the counterclaim for revocation and the…
Read the analysisFollowing a settlement, the Munich Local Division allowed the withdrawal of PHOENIX CONTACT's infringement action on EP 3 602 692 and of the counterclaim for revocation brought by Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico and ILME, declared the proceedings closed, left each party to…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division rectified under Rule 353 its decision of 4 April 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences' action against Meril on EP 3 669 828 and the counterclaim, on the five points Edwards did not oppose (items 1, 2, 3, 7 and…
Read the analysisIn SWARCO FUTURIT's action against Yunex for infringement of EP 2 643 717, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division admitted, absent any objection, Shenzhen Dianming's intervention in support of the defendant (Rule 313), declared the invitation to intervene of 24…
Read the analysisFollowing the interim conference of 28 May 2025 in Heraeus' action against Vibrantz on EP 3 215 288 and the counterclaim for revocation, the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division closed the interim procedure on 18 June 2025, confirmed the oral…
Read the analysisIn BioMarin's action against Ascendis Pharma for infringement of EP 3 175 863 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_18/2025 and UPC_CFI_439/2025), the Munich Local Division decided to hear both together, asked for a technically qualified judge in biotechnology, and set the end…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 May 2025, following an oral hearing on 9 May 2025, the Munich Local Division rejected ALD Vacuum Technologies' request for review of the order for preservation of evidence and inspection made on 3 February 2025, without hearing ALD,…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_58/2025), the Munich Local Division closed the provisional measures proceedings brought by Dolby International against Roku under EP 3 490 258 B1, after Roku had dropped its request for an anti-suit injunction before a US court.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_59/2025, ORD_16028/2025), panel 2 of the Munich Local Division closed the provisional measures proceedings brought by Sun Patent Trust against Roku, Inc., following the anti-anti-suit and anti-anti-enforcement injunction it had granted ex parte on 28 January…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 May 2025, the Munich Local Division set the timetable in Belparts Group's action against IMI Hydronic International and IMI Hydronic Engineering for infringement of EP 3 812 870 (UPC_CFI_801/2024, with the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_392/2025): interim conference…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 13 May 2025 (ORD_18791/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential information contained in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim against MediaTek, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 13 May 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division classified as confidential the highlighted information in Huawei Technologies' statement of claim in its infringement action against MediaTek (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_196/2025, App_19188/2025, ORD_19329/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, granted the application of the five Samsung defendants in Maxell's infringement action on EP 2 403 266.
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025, ACT_7567/2025, ORD_19051/2025), Judge-rapporteur Zigann of the Munich Local Division gave effect to the parties' agreement in the infringement action on EP 4 372 829 brought by Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management and Zhejiang…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_14155/2025 and ORD_14156/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division held admissible the preliminary objections of the BioNTech and Pfizer defendants in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365 brought by Promosome LLC, and…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_628/2024, App_8962/2025), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered AorticLab, defendant to Emboline's infringement action on EP 2 129 425 and counterclaimant for revocation, to provide security of EUR 200,000 for Emboline's costs.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025, ORD_16126/2025), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Schober, Pichlmaier and Dorland-Galliot) granted Syngenta leave to extend its infringement action on EP 2 152 073 against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_149/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Headwater Research's application to sever its infringement action (EP 3 110 069), insofar as it targets Flextronics International Europe, the fifth defendant, from the proceedings against…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023, ACT_568963/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding, Kupecz and Pichlmaier) ordered the immediate continuation of the written procedure in the infringement action on EP 4 108 782 brought by 10x Genomics and President…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11612/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) ordered Promosome, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 401 365, to deposit security for costs of EUR 1,500,000 into the UPC account within three weeks of service,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023 and UPC_CFI_676/2024, App_14059/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, permitted Meril Life Sciences to withdraw its cost application (EUR 8,379) and confidentiality applications arising from a third party, Mr…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023 and UPC_CFI_674/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division allowed Meril to withdraw its applications for reimbursement of the costs incurred in opposing a third party's request for access to the file, made by…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ORD_11610/2025 and ORD_11611/2025), Judge-rapporteur Kupecz of the Munich Local Division rejected the applications to produce evidence filed on 7 March 2025 by the five BioNTech companies and the four Pfizer companies, defendants to Promosome LLC's…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_18/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division rejected the preliminary objection of Ascendis, sued by BioMarin for infringement of EP 3 175 863 (variants of C-type natriuretic peptide) in respect of its product TransCon CNP,…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_614/2024, ORD_15600/2025), the Munich Local Division allowed MANN+HUMMEL, with SOTRAS's consent and following an out-of-court settlement, to withdraw its application for provisional measures based on EP 2 762 219, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, ORD_15869/2025), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, extended from 3 to 8 April 2025, with Headwater Research's consent, the time for the three Samsung Electronics companies to comment on three…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ORD_13670/2025), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Bessaud and Pichlmaier) rectified under Rule 353 a typing error in the scheduling order of 18 March 2025 issued in Adeia Guides' infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy decision of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_696/2024), Judge Voß, presiding judge and rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered MSG Maschinenbau to pay EJP Maschinen EUR 33,224.50 within 21 days in costs of the infringement action on EP 3 225 320, withdrawn…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_425/2024, App_54919/2024), Judge-rapporteur Pichlmaier of the Munich Local Division ordered JingAo Solar, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 787 541, to provide by 30 April 2025 security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_146/2024), the Munich Local Division, in Sanofi's action against STADA for infringement of EP 2 493 466, allowed Medac, a third party, to withdraw its application for access to the file and removed from the file…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_235/2024, ACT_27821/2024, ORD_69038/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (D. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2024, ACT_29956/2024, ORD_69030/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_73/2024 and UPC_CFI_408/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted, on a joint application, leave to withdraw Hand Held Products' infringement action against Scandit on EP 3 866 051 and Scandit's counterclaim, declared the proceedings…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_339/2024, ACT_36560/2024, ORD_69037/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (D. Voß) dismissed the preliminary objection lodged by Roku, Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 March 2025, the Munich Local Division, hearing Adeia Guides’ action for infringement of EP 2 793 430 against three Disney group companies, which have filed a counterclaim for revocation, decides with the parties’ consent to proceed with both…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024, ORD_13125/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), dealing with Edwards Lifesciences' application for a cost decision (Rule 151) against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences in the dispute over EP 3 646…
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