Munich (DE) Local Division

Decisions of the Unified Patent Court recorded under "Munich (DE) Local Division" in UPC Litigation Watch, the case law database maintained by Dhenne Avocats.

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431 decisions recorded

Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 3 November 2023)

3 November 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 3 November 2023 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_584907/2023), the Munich Local Division, on the judge-rapporteur's proposal after consulting the panel (Rule 322 RoP), changed the language of Amgen's infringement action against Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland and others from German to English, the language in…

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Huawei Technologies v Netgear (CFI, 3 October 2023)

3 October 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 3 October 2023 (ORD_575878/2023, UPC_CFI_9/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on the confidentiality requests made by Huawei Technologies in its infringement action against Netgear Inc., NETGEAR Deutschland and Netgear International on EP 3611989.

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Koninklijke Philips v Edrich (CFI, 27 September 2023)

27 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 27 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_62/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division partly granted Koninklijke Philips' application under Rule 275.2 RoP to validate service of its statement of claim on Belkin International (United States), Belkin Limited and two of its…

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Philips IP Ventures v Edrich (CFI, 27 September 2023)

27 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 27 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_5/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ruled on Philips IP Ventures' application under Rule 275.2 RoP for several methods of serving its statement of claim on defendants based in the United States and the…

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, 19 September 2023)

19 September 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By decision of 19 September 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, App_528389/2023), the Munich Local Division, sitting as a panel of four including a technically qualified judge, ruled on the application for provisional measures brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against…

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Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 29 August 2023)

29 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 29 August 2023 (ORD_566193/2023, UPC_CFI_14/2023, ACT_459916/2023), the full panel of the Munich Local Division fixed the dates of service of Amgen's statement of claim in its infringement action on EP 3666797 against Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland, Sanofi-Aventis Groupe, Sanofi Winthrop Industrie…

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Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 28 August 2023)

28 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By order of 28 August 2023 (UPC_CFI_249/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, seized by Edwards Lifesciences with an application for provisional measures against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences based on EP 3 763 331, set an…

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Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 23 August 2023)

23 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By order of 23 August 2023 (App_561742/2023, UPC_CFI_15/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 2 November 2023 Meril GmbH's time limit for the defence in Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 3646825, aligning it with that of Meril Life…

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Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 17 August 2023)

17 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 17 August 2023 (ORD_562104/2023, UPC_CFI_14/2023, ACT_459916/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division brought order to the competing applications on calculation, extension and shortening of time limits filed by Amgen and by the Sanofi and…

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Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 16 August 2023)

16 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By procedural order issued on 16 August 2023 (ORD_562104/2023, UPC_CFI_14/2023, ACT_459916/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division organised the handling of the competing applications to extend and shorten time limits filed by Amgen and by the Sanofi and…

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Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (CFI, 14 August 2023)

14 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By order of 14 August 2023 (UPC_CFI_249/2023, App_560315/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Edwards Lifesciences' provisional measures proceedings against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences based on EP 3 763 331, ruled that the application was deemed served on…

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Meril v Edwards Lifesciences (CFI, 10 August 2023)

10 August 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By final decision of 10 August 2023 (App_557291/2023, UPC_CFI_15/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 4 September 2023 Meril GmbH's time limit for a preliminary objection (Rule 19.1 RoP) in Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 3646825, confirming the…

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Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 28 July 2023)

28 July 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 28 July 2023 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_556750/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division decided that Amgen's infringement action (EP 3 666 797) against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the fourth defendant, would not be severed from the action against the Sanofi companies.

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Amgen v Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (CFI, 17 July 2023)

17 July 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 17 July 2023 (UPC_CFI_14/2023, ORD_551192/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division severed Amgen's infringement action (EP 3 666 797) in so far as it was directed against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, the fourth defendant, on which service by electronic…

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, 10 July 2023)

10 July 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 10 July 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, application 459746/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in the provisional measures proceedings between 10x Genomics and NanoString, extended at the respondents' request of 7 July 2023 the time limits for written submissions…

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, UPC_CFI_2/2023, 6 July 2023)

6 July 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 6 July 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, application 459746/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against NanoString conducted in German, ruled under Rule 7.1 RoP that translations of exhibits in English need not be…

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Koninklijke Philips v S.G.E (CFI, 5 July 2023)

5 July 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Infringement Action Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 5 July 2023, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division invited the claimant in action UPC_CFI_62/2023 (registered under the names of Koninklijke Philips and S.G.E.) to correct the deficiencies of its statement of claim in these proceedings as…

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, UPC_CFI_2/2023, 30 June 2023)

30 June 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By supplementary order of 30 June 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, application 459746/2023), the Munich Local Division, in 10x Genomics' provisional measures proceedings against three NanoString companies, corrected point 1 of its order of 23 June 2023: the arguments in the protective letter, written in…

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, UPC_CFI_17/2023, 27 June 2023)

27 June 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

In a procedural order of 27 June 2023, issued in German, the Munich Local Division asked the applicant, 10x Genomics, to upload to the CMS the exhibits to its application for provisional measures against NanoString (case 17/2023, application no.

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, UPC_CFI_2/2023, 27 June 2023)

27 June 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 27 June 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, application 459746/2023), the Munich Local Division asked the applicants in the provisional measures proceedings between 10x Genomics and NanoString to upload to the CMS the exhibits to their application.

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10x Genomics v NanoString (CFI, UPC_CFI_2/2023, 23 June 2023)

23 June 2023 CFI / Munich (DE) Local Division / Application for provisional measures Decision with commentary

By procedural order of 23 June 2023 (UPC_CFI_2/2023, application 459746/2023), the Munich Local Division set the course of the provisional measures proceedings brought on 1 June 2023 by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against three NanoString companies on…

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