Adeia Guides v The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) (CFI, 13 March 2025)
By procedural order of 18 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ACT_59975/2024, ORD_69068/2024), the Munich Local Division (M.
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Syngenta v Sumi Agro (CFI, 11 March 2025)
By order of 11 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ACT_23636/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, W.
Read the analysisPromosome v BioNTech (CFI, 10 March 2025)
By order of 10 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, ACT_68533/2024, ORD_6596/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (A. Kupecz) largely granted the application of Promosome, claimant in an infringement action on EP 2 401 365 against five BioNTech group companies and four Pfizer…
Read the analysisBioNTech Innovative Manufactur (CFI, 10 March 2025)
Read the French analysisHeadwater Research v Samsung Electronics (CFI, 3 March 2025)
By a Rule 105.5 order of 3 March 2025, issued after the interim conference of 28 February 2025 in Headwater Research’s infringement action against three Samsung companies (EP 2 391 947, UPC_CFI_54/2024) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_396/2024), the judge-rapporteur of…
Read the analysisEsko-Graphics Imaging v XSYS Germany (CFI, 28 February 2025)
By order of 28 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_483/2024, ACT_46804/2024, App_2829/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Voß, acting as judge-rapporteur) refused Esko-Graphics Imaging leave to extend its infringement action on EP 3 742 231 against XSYS Germany and two other group companies to…
Read the analysisHeraeus Electronics v Vibrantz (CFI, 26 February 2025)
Read the French analysisHeraeus Electronics (CFI, 26 February 2025)
Read the French analysisPanasonic Holdings v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, ORD_3236/2025, 25 February 2025)
Read the French analysisPanasonic (CFI, 25 February 2025)
Read the French analysisPanasonic Holdings v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, ORD_3605/2025, 25 February 2025)
By a joint order of 25 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_220/2023 and UPC_CFI_221/2023), the panel of the Munich Local Division upheld the judge-rapporteur's orders of 23 and 24 December 2024 which, after Panasonic withdrew its infringement actions (EP 3 024 163) against Xiaomi and…
Read the analysisHand Held Products v Scandit (CFI, 24 February 2025)
By order of 24 February 2025 following the interim conference of 21 February (UPC_CFI_73/2024 and UPC_CFI_408/2024, ACT_9206/2024, ORD_9117/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann) set up the oral hearing of 29 April 2025 in the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisBruker Spatial Biology v 10x Genomics (CFI, 24 February 2025)
By decision of 24 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, App_15954/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 337,431.50 the costs that 10x Genomics, Inc.
Read the analysisDyson (CFI, 19 February 2025)
Read the French analysisDyson Technology v SharkNinja Europe (CFI, 19 February 2025)
By an order of 19 February 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_322/2024 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_588/2024 (counterclaim for revocation), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted leave to Dyson Technology Limited and to SharkNinja Europe Limited and SharkNinja Germany GmbH to…
Read the analysisChainzone Technology (Foshan) v SWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme Ges.m.b.H. (CFI, 19 February 2025)
By an order of 19 February 2025 (ORD_8499/2025, App_25380/2024, UPC_CFI_156/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel presided over by Judge Zigann as rapporteur) granted Chainzone Technology (Foshan) Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisNokia Technologies v Shanghai Sunmi Technology (CFI, 19 February 2025)
Read the French analysisSWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme v Yunex (CFI, 19 February 2025)
By order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_156/2024, ORD_24915/2024), the Munich Local Division (Judges Zigann, presiding and rapporteur, Mlakar and Pichlmaier) dismissed as moot the application for preservation of evidence brought by SWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme against Yunex under EP 2 643 717.
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 17 February 2025)
By an order of 17 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_15/2023), the Munich Local Division, on the application of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, rectified under Rule 353 several passages of its decision of 15 November 2024 in the action brought by…
Read the analysisGXD-Bio v Myriad Genetics (CFI, 14 February 2025)
By an order of 14 February 2025 (ORD_68782/2024, UPC_CFI_437/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by eight Myriad group companies sued by GXD-Bio Corporation for infringement of EP 3 346 403.
Read the analysisSyngenta v Sumi Agro Europe (CFI, 12 February 2025)
By an order of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set the timetable for Syngenta Limited’s infringement action against Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited over European patent EP 2 152 073: interim conference by…
Read the analysisbiolitec Holding v Light Guide Optics Germany (CFI, 12 February 2025)
By a decision of 12 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_714/2024), Tobias Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by Light Guide Optics Germany GmbH and S.I.A.
Read the analysisBSN Medical v Brightwake (CFI, 11 February 2025)
By a decision of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_599/2024, App_3915/2025), the Munich Local Division (panel presided over by Ulrike Voß as rapporteur) confirmed, at the parties' request, the settlement reached between BSN Medical GmbH and Brightwake Ltd., Advancis Medical Deutschland GmbH and Advancis…
Read the analysisSSAB Europe v Tiroler Rohre (CFI, ORD_68941/2024, 10 February 2025)
By a decision of 10 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_640/2024, ACT_59020/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) set at EUR 84,033.76 the first-instance costs that Tiroler Rohre must reimburse to SSAB Swedish Steel and SSAB Europe Oy by 15 March 2025,…
Read the analysisSSAB Europe v Tiroler Rohre (CFI, ORD_65844/2024, 10 February 2025)
Read the French analysisPHOENIX CONTACT v Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E. (CFI, 10 February 2025)
By an order of 10 February 2025 (ORD_68781/2024, UPC_CFI_342/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by Industria Lombarda Materiale Elettrico I.L.M.E.
Read the analysisXSYS Prepress v Esko-Graphics Imaging (CFI, 10 February 2025)
By an order of 10 February 2025 (ORD_6847/2025, UPC_CFI_483/2024), Ulrike Voß, judge rapporteur in the Munich Local Division, rejected the preliminary objection raised by XSYS Germany GmbH, XSYS Prepress N.V.
Read the analysisMotorola Mobility v Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (CFI, 8 February 2025)
By an order of 8 February 2025 (ACT_47298/2024, App_63904/2024, EP 3 780 758), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) rejected in its entirety the confidentiality application filed under Rule 262A by the defendants, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Ericsson GmbH.
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 5 February 2025)
By a procedural order of 5 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division summoned the parties to the oral hearing of 11 February 2025 in Edwards Lifesciences’ infringement action against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences and Meril Italy over…
Read the analysisMotorola Mobility (CFI, 5 February 2025)
Read the French analysisTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson v Motorola Mobility (CFI, 5 February 2025)
Read the French analysisAdeia Guides v The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) (CFI, 30 January 2025)
By an order of 30 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_665/2024, ORD_5020/2025, EP 2 793 430), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted the request of the three Disney group companies sued by Adeia Guides: their common time limit for the statement…
Read the analysisQualcomm v Shenzhen Transsion Holdings (CFI, 28 January 2025)
By a decision of 28 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_421/2024, EP 2 286 325), the Munich Local Division allowed the withdrawal of Qualcomm's infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and five other defendants, following a settlement with the former, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisLenovo (Singapore) v ASUSTek Computer (CFI, ORD_4350/2025, 27 January 2025)
By an order of 27 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024, EP 3 682 587), Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division decided, at the request of the defendants ASUSTek Computer, ASUS Computer and ASUSTEK (UK), to hear Lenovo (Singapore)'s infringement action together with the…
Read the analysisAvago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 27 January 2025)
By an order of 27 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted a patent attorney, acting on his own behalf, access to the file of the counterclaim for revocation (CC_581177/2023) lodged in the infringement action brought by…
Read the analysisSnowpixie v Golf Tech Golfartikel Vertrieb (CFI, 27 January 2025)
By an order of 27 January 2025 in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_244/2024 and UPC_CFI_786/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Pichlmaier) ordered the infringement claimant to provide, by 24 February 2025, security for costs of…
Read the analysisLenovo (Singapore) v ASUSTek Computer (CFI, ORD_68771/2024, 27 January 2025)
In a procedural order of 27 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024), issued in German, the Munich Local Division set the timetable for Lenovo (Singapore)’s infringement action on EP 3 682 587 against ASUSTek Computer, ASUS Computer and ASUSTEK (UK): an interim conference by videoconference…
Read the analysisSnowPixie (CFI, 27 January 2025)
Read the French analysisZentiva France v Sanofi Mature IP (CFI, 24 January 2025)
In a procedural order of 24 January 2025, the Munich Local Division set the timetable for the proceedings on EP 2 493 466 between the Sanofi companies and Accord Healthcare, STADA, Dr Reddy’s and Zentiva (UPC_CFI_145, 146, 147, 148, 374, 463, 496…
Read the analysisHeraeus Electronics v Vibrantz (CFI, 24 January 2025)
By a procedural order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2024 and UPC_CFI_448/2024, EP 3 215 288), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) postponed the interim conference, to be held by video, to 28 May 2025 in the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisHeadwater Research v Samsung Electronics (CFI, 24 January 2025)
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_54/2024 and UPC_CFI_396/2024, EP 2 391 947), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) granted Headwater Research leave to amend its requests in its infringement action against three Samsung companies and in the…
Read the analysisNEC v TCL Deutschland (CFI, 24 January 2025)
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, EP 2 645 714), Panel 2 of the Munich Local Division permitted, following a settlement and a licence agreement, the withdrawal of four TCL companies' counterclaims for revocation and of TCL Deutschland's counterclaim for…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_3764/2025, 23 January 2025)
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3764/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) closed, without ruling on it, the application by Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences to stay the confidentiality proceedings on…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_3866/2025, 23 January 2025)
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3866/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) invited Edwards Lifesciences to comment within ten days on the confidentiality of its cost application against Meril GmbH and Meril…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_3774/2025, 23 January 2025)
By an order of 23 January 2025 (ORD_3774/2025, UPC_CFI_815/2024, EP 3 646 825), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) lifted all deadlines relating to Edwards Lifesciences' cost application and to the protection of the confidential information it contains.
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_3758/2025, 23 January 2025)
By an order of 23 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Meril's application for a partial stay of the cost proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences (EP 3 646 825) pending the Court of Appeal's decision on Meril's…
Read the analysisSanofi Winthrop Industrie v Accord Healthcare (CFI, 22 January 2025)
By a common order of 22 January 2025, issued after the preliminary interim conference in Sanofi's four joined infringement actions against Accord, Stada, Reddy and Zentiva (UPC_CFI_145/2024 to UPC_CFI_148/2024, EP 2 493 466, cabazitaxel), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge…
Read the analysisEsko-Graphics Imaging v XSYS Germany (CFI, 21 January 2025)
By order of 15 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, granted the application by the defendants XSYS Germany, XSYS Prepress and XSYS Italia to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_68821/2024, 21 January 2025)
By an order of 21 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, EP 3 655 341), Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division held that publishing on the UPC website the decision by default of 9 January 2025, given on air up group's application for provisional…
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_68822/2024, 21 January 2025)
Read the French analysisSanofi Mature IP v Accord Healthcare (CFI, 17 January 2025)
By order of 17 January 2025, Presiding Judge Matthias Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, substituted Sanofi SA for Sanofi Mature IP, claimant no.
Read the analysisNEC v TCL Deutschland (CFI, ORD_2317/2025, 17 January 2025)
In a decision of 15 January 2025, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division (judge-rapporteur Ulrike Voß) permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action brought by NEC Corporation against TCL Deutschland and six other companies (UPC_CFI_487/2023, EP 2 645 714), with Access…
Read the analysisNEC v TCL Deutschland (CFI, ORD_2333/2025, 17 January 2025)
By order of 15 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_498/2023), the Munich Local Division permitted NEC to withdraw its infringement action against several TCL group companies based on EP 3 057 321, the parties having reached an agreement before the close of the written procedure.
Read the analysisBF exaQC v NVIDIA (CFI, 16 January 2025)
By order of 16 January 2025, the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, dismissed the application by NVIDIA Corporation and NVIDIA GmbH to change the language of proceedings from German to English, the language of grant, in the infringement…
Read the analysisAbbott Diabetes Care v Dexcom (CFI, 15 January 2025)
In a decision of 10 January 2025, panel 2 of the Munich Local Division (judge-rapporteur Ulrike Voß) allowed the withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action against Dexcom Inc., Dexcom Deutschland and Dexcom International (UPC_CFI_402/2023, EP 4 087 195), including its application…
Read the analysisSanofi Mature IP v Accord Healthcare (CFI, 14 January 2025)
By order of 14 January 2025, Presiding Judge Matthias Zigann, acting as judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, ruled on Sanofi's application to protect the witness statement filed as Exhibit D.4 in its infringement actions on EP 2 493…
Read the analysis10x Genomics v NanoString Technologies (CFI, 13 January 2025)
By a revised order of 13 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_298/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, on the application of President and Fellows of Harvard College (claimant 2, alongside 10x Genomics, against NanoString Technologies), modified the judge-rapporteur's order of 14 October 2024.
Read the analysisHuawei Technologies v Netgear Deutschland (CFI, ORD_1830/2025, 10 January 2025)
By an order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_9/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann, rapporteur) granted the parties' concurring applications for leave to withdraw Huawei's infringement action against Netgear, based on EP 3 611 989, and the three revocation counterclaims, together with…
Read the analysisNetgear Deutschland v Huawei Technologies (CFI, 10 January 2025)
By an order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_152/2024), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann, rapporteur) granted Netgear Deutschland, Netgear Inc. and Netgear International leave to withdraw their action for a declaration of non-infringement against Huawei concerning EP 3 678 321 and EP…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 10 January 2025)
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_249/2023, ORD_4627/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division fixed at EUR 244,000 the costs that Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences must reimburse to Edwards Lifesciences following provisional measures proceedings, an amount the parties had…
Read the analysisDexcom v Abbott Laboratories (CFI, 10 January 2025)
By a decision of 8 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_396/2023), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed the withdrawal of Dexcom's infringement action against Abbott Laboratories and twelve other Abbott companies, based on EP 4 111 949, of the application to amend the patent…
Read the analysisHuawei Technologies v Netgear Deutschland (CFI, ORD_1780/2025, 10 January 2025)
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_168/2024, ACT_18917/2024 and CC_20512/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted, on cross-applications and with the other side's consent, the withdrawal of Huawei's infringement action against three Netgear companies on EP 3 678 321 and…
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_1375/2025, 9 January 2025)
By a decision by default of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_509/2023), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division granted air up group's application for provisional measures against Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, based on EP 3 897 305.
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_1358/2025, 9 January 2025)
By decision by default of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, ACT_597609/2023), the Munich Local Division ordered Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, a Chinese company that had remained silent after service was deemed good, to stop offering, placing on the market, using, importing or storing…
Read the analysisAvago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, ORD_67255/2024, 7 January 2025)
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_208/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed Avago Technologies International Sales to withdraw the infringement action on EP 1 770 912 that it had brought on 3 May 2024 against Tesla Germany and Tesla…
Read the analysisSanofi Mature IP v Accord Healthcare (CFI, 7 January 2025)
By an order of 7 January 2025, made in the parallel infringement actions on EP 2 493 466 (UPC_CFI_145/2024 to UPC_CFI_148/2024, against Accord Healthcare, STADA, Reddy and Zentiva), Judge Zigann, judge-rapporteur at the Munich Local Division, substituted Sanofi Winthrop Industrie for Sanofi-Aventis…
Read the analysisDyson Technology v SharkNinja Europe (CFI, 7 January 2025)
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_322/2024), Judge Zigann, judge-rapporteur of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, stayed Dyson Technology's infringement action against SharkNinja Europe and SharkNinja Germany, based on EP 2 043 492, and the counterclaim, on Dyson's application…
Read the analysisAvago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, ORD_67258/2024, 7 January 2025)
By an order of 7 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2) allowed Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg to withdraw the revocation counterclaim they had brought against EP 1 770 912 in the infringement action filed by Avago Technologies…
Read the analysisHuawei v Netgear International (CFI, 2 January 2025)
By an order of 2 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_168/2024), panel 1 of the Munich Local Division decided, at both parties' request, to hear together Huawei's infringement action against Netgear Deutschland, Netgear Inc.
Read the analysisHuawei v NETGEAR Deutschland (CFI, 30 December 2024)
By order of 30 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_168/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Huawei's action against three Netgear companies for infringement of EP 3 678 321 and the counterclaim for revocation, asked the President of the Court of First Instance…
Read the analysisNetgear v Huawei Technologies (CFI, 27 December 2024)
Read the French analysisSnowpixie v Golf Tech Golfartikel Vertriebs (CFI, 24 December 2024)
By an order of 24 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_244/2024 and UPC_CFI_609/2024), Judge Zigann, on behalf of the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, extended to 27 December 2024 Snowpixie's time limits to file its reply in its action for infringement of EP 3…
Read the analysisSnowpixie (CFI, 24 December 2024)
Read the French analysisPanasonic v Xiaomi (CFI, 24 December 2024)
By an order of 24 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_213/2023, UPC_CFI_220/2023 and UPC_CFI_224/2023), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) permitted, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Panasonic's three infringement actions against ten companies including Xiaomi and of the defendants' counterclaims, and declared the proceedings…
Read the analysisAvago Technologies International Sales v Tesla Germany (CFI, 23 December 2024)
By an order of 23 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_52/2023, ORD_67711/2024), the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) permitted Tesla Germany and Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg to withdraw their application for a cost decision, filed on 30 September 2024 after the decision of 30 August 2024…
Read the analysisPanasonic v Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications (CFI, 23 December 2024)
By an order of 23 December 2024, the Munich Local Division (Judge Zigann) permitted, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Panasonic's three infringement actions against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany (ACT_545535/2023, ACT_545620/2023 and ACT_546122/2023) and of the defendants' counterclaims, and…
Read the analysisHARTING Electric Stiftung v PHOENIX CONTACT (CFI, 20 December 2024)
By an order of 20 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_342/2024, ACT_37621/2024), the presiding judge of panel 2 of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, granted HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co.
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 20 December 2024)
In an order of 20 December 2024 following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the Munich Local Division, acting through its judge-rapporteur, allowed Edwards Lifesciences to extend its infringement action on EP 3 669 828 to Romania and allowed the Meril companies to extend…
Read the analysisKoninklijke Philips v Belkin International (CFI, 18 December 2024)
By an order of 17 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_390/2023, App_60589/2024), the Munich Local Division imposed a penalty payment of EUR 46,000 on Belkin International, Belkin GmbH and Belkin Limited, at the request of Koninklijke Philips, for late and incomplete compliance with the order…
Read the analysisHuawei v Netgear (CFI, ORD_598540/2023, 18 December 2024)
Read the French analysisSyngenta v Sumi Agro (CFI, 12 December 2024)
By an order of 12 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ORD_65555/2024), the presiding judge of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, dismissed Syngenta Limited's application to revoke order ORD 47657/2024 made in favour of Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro…
Read the analysisHuawei v Netgear (CFI, 11 December 2024)
By an order of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_791/2024, ACT_65376/2024), the presiding judge of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, sitting as single judge, prohibited Netgear Inc., Netgear International Limited and Netgear Deutschland GmbH, without hearing them, from pursuing the anti-suit and…
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_64876/2024, 9 December 2024)
By an order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_509/2023, ACT_597615/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring air up group GmbH's application for provisional measures (EP 3 897 305) to the attention of Guangzhou Aiyun…
Read the analysisair up group (CFI, 9 December 2024)
Read the French analysisAvago International Sales v Realtek Semiconductor (CFI, 9 December 2024)
By an ex parte order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_755/2024, ACT_63549/2024), panel 2 of the Munich Local Division prohibited Realtek Semiconductor Corporation from pursuing, before the Delaware courts, its anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunction requests against Avago Technologies International Sales Pte.
Read the analysisair up group v Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology (CFI, ORD_64864/2024, 9 December 2024)
By order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, ACT_597609/2023, App_64018/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division treated as good service the steps taken to serve air up group's application for provisional measures on Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, a Chinese company, where transmission…
Read the analysisHeraeus Electronics v Vibrantz (CFI, 2 December 2024)
By order of 2 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_114/2024 and UPC_CFI_448/2024, ACT_13227/2024, CC_43919/2024), the Munich Local Division, on Heraeus Electronics' application for panel review under Rule 333, set aside the judge-rapporteur's order of 25 September 2024: extending the infringement action on EP 3 215…
Read the analysisGXD-Bio v Myriad International (CFI, 26 November 2024)
By order of 26 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_437/2024, ACT_43382/2024, ORD_59602/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß), in GXD-Bio Corporation's infringement action on EP 3 346 403 against Myriad International GmbH and eight other defendants, ordered the claimant to provide security…
Read the analysisHäfele SE & Co v Kunststoff KG Nehl & Co (CFI, 25 November 2024)
By order of 25 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_443/2024), made after the hearing of 14 November 2024, the Munich Local Division (panel 2, presided over by U. Voß) ruled on Häfele SE & Co KG's application for provisional measures against Kunststoff KG Nehl &…
Read the analysisCollomix v Lidl Digital Deutschland (CFI, 21 November 2024)
By order of 21 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_550/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (T. Pichlmaier), in Collomix's infringement action against Lidl Digital Deutschland, Lidl Dienstleistung and Delta-Sport Handelskontor, ordered the claimant to lodge with the Court a sample of the "PARKSIDE®…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_56918/2024, 15 November 2024)
Read the French analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences (CFI, 15 November 2024)
In a decision of 15 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_15/2023), the Munich Local Division held that Meril’s Myval Octacor transcatheter heart valve and Navigator delivery systems literally infringe claims 1, 2, 4 and 5 of Edwards Lifesciences’ EP 3 646 825, as maintained in…
Read the analysisEdwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, ORD_60760/2024, 15 November 2024)
By order of 15 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_15/2023, ACT_459987/2023), the Munich Local Division rejected the requests of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences, defendants to Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 3 646 825, for the Division to ask the European Commission about…
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Read the French analysisHeraeus Electronics v Vibrantz (CFI, 14 November 2024)
By order of 14 November 2024, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_114/2024 and UPC_CFI_448/2024, the Munich Local Division ruled on the confidentiality applications of Vibrantz, the defendant in the infringement action brought by Heraeus Electronics and Heraeus Precious Metals on EP 3…
Read the analysisHeadwater Research v Samsung Electronics (CFI, 12 November 2024)
By order of 12 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Headwater Research's infringement action against Samsung Electronics based on EP 2 391 947, ordered Qualcomm, a third party, to produce within seven days an electronic copy of…
Read the analysisTiroler Rohre v SSAB Swedish Steel (CFI, 24 October 2024)
By decision of 24 October 2024, the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, M.
Read the analysisSES-imagotag v Hanshow Technology (CFI, 18 October 2024)
By decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023, App_44953/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisSES-imagotag v Hanshow (CFI, 11 October 2024)
By decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, App_3393/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 200,000 the first-instance costs that SES-imagotag must reimburse to the four Hanshow companies following the dismissal of its application for provisional measures.
Read the analysisMSG Maschinenbau v EJP Maschinen (CFI, 11 October 2024)
By order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_300/2023, CC_597425/2023), the Munich Local Division (panel 2, presided by U. Voß) drew the consequences of the final revocation of EP 3 225 320 B1 by the EPO Board of Appeal on 4 July 2024 (T…
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