Paris (FR) Local Division
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107 decisions recorded
Align Technology v Angelalign (CFI, 16 October 2026)
In a decision on the merits of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_684/2025 and UPC_CFI_2279/2025), the Paris Local Division upheld Align Technology’s unitary patent EP 2 237 738 B1 on orthodontic repositioning appliances and found literal infringement of claims 1, 4, 5, 7 and…
Read the analysisMerz Pharma France v Viatris Santé (CFI, 15 October 2026)
By an order of 15 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1901/2026 and UPC_CFI_3259/2026), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel presided over by Camille Lignières, referred Viatris Santé’s counterclaim for revocation to the Paris Central Division, in the dispute concerning Merz’s patent EP…
Read the analysisKEEEX v ADOBE (CFI, 22 September 2026)
By an order under Rule 105.5 RoP issued after the interim conference, the judge-rapporteur closed the interim procedure and opened the oral procedure in the infringement action brought by KEEEX against Adobe, OpenAI, Truepic, Joint Development Foundation Projects and the C2PA entities,…
Read the analysisBYD v BMS Innovations (CFI, 9 September 2026)
By order of 9 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2437/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected BMS Innovations' application to declare inadmissible, or to stay, the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought by six BYD companies in respect of EP 2 937…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, 25 August 2026)
By decision of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_362/2025 and UPC_CFI_0001786/2025), the Paris Local Division permitted, under Rule 265 RoP, the withdrawal of Sun Patent Trust's infringement action on EP 3 407 524 against Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication,…
Read the analysisOrange v HMD Global (CFI, 19 August 2026)
Read the French analysisBostik v Henkel France (CFI, 31 July 2026)
In a decision of 31 July 2026, the Paris Local Division revokes in its entirety Bostik's European patent EP 1 725 627 (cohesive coating for snack food packaging), which had already expired, for added matter, and consequently dismisses the infringement action brought…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, UPC_CFI_362/2025, 30 July 2026)
By order of 30 July 2026 under Rule 105.5 RoP, following the interim conference held online the day before, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo companies based on EP 3 407 524…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, UPC_CFI_361/2025, 30 July 2026)
In an order of 30 July 2026 issued after the interim conference held by video link on 29 July 2026 (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division sets the value of Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo…
Read the analysisMerz Pharma France v Viatris Santé (CFI, 30 July 2026)
By order of 30 July 2026, the Paris Local Division dismissed Viatris Santé's preliminary objection in the infringement action brought by three Merz companies on the basis of French supplementary protection certificate No.
Read the analysisKEEEX v ADOBE (CFI, 29 July 2026)
In an order of 29 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismisses the applications for review (Rule 333 RoP) filed by KEEEX and by Adobe against the judge-rapporteur's order of 25 June 2026, in the action…
Read the analysisKEEEX v ADOBE (CFI, 20 July 2026)
In an order of 20 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division partly granted Adobe's request to increase the EUR 200,000 security imposed on KEEEX under Rule 158 RoP on 19 December 2025: the security is increased by EUR…
Read the analysisVALEO SYSTEMES D’ESSUYAGE v ROBERT BOSCH DOO Beograd (CFI, 18 July 2026)
By order of 18 July 2026, issued in infringement action UPC_CFI_1963/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1247/2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division refused to let the Bosch group companies' time limit for their rejoinder run only from receipt of an unredacted…
Read the analysisVALEO SYSTEMES D’ESSUYAGE v ROBERT BOSCH DOO Beograd (CFI, 15 July 2026)
In an order of 15 July 2026 (proceedings UPC_CFI_1963/2025 and UPC_CFI_1247/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division allowed VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE, over the Bosch companies' objections, to limit its infringement action on EP 4 144 599 (excluding seven APX products, Belgium…
Read the analysisKEEEX v Adobe Systems Software Ireland (CFI, 25 June 2026)
In an order of 25 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rules on the objections raised by Adobe, OpenAI and the other defendants against the brief filed on 5 June 2026 by KEEEX, proprietor of EP 2 949…
Read the analysisOrange v HMD Global (CFI, UPC_CFI_301/2025, 16 June 2026)
Read the French analysisBostik v Henkel France (CFI, 16 June 2026)
Read the French analysisSharkNinja Operating v Groupe SEB France (CFI, 16 June 2026)
Read the French analysisOrange v HMD Global (CFI, UPC_CFI_713/2025, 16 June 2026)
Read the French analysisAlign v Angelalign (CFI, 5 June 2026)
Read the French analysisKEEEX v ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND (CFI, 1 June 2026)
In an order of 1 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the panel of the Paris Local Division dismisses the request for review (Rule 333 RoP) filed by Adobe Systems Software Ireland and Adobe Inc.
Read the analysisTIRU v VALINEA ENERGIE (CFI, 29 May 2026)
Open the entryBMS Innovations v BYD (CFI, UPC_CFI_2070/2025, 27 May 2026)
By order of 27 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_2070/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division ordered BMS Innovations, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2937706 against six companies of the BYD group, to provide security for costs of EUR 300,000 within one…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia (CFI, UPC_CFI_362/2025, 22 May 2026)
By procedural order of 22 May 2026, following an online case management meeting held the day before, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division amended the hearing dates in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo companies based on EP 3…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia (CFI, UPC_CFI_361/2025, 22 May 2026)
By procedural order of 22 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_361/2025) the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division amended the hearing dates in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo companies, based on EP 3 852 468: a hearing on 9 September 2026 at…
Read the analysisSharkNinja Operating v Groupe SEB France (CFI, 21 May 2026)
Read the French analysisCompagnie Générale des Etablissements Michelin v Goodyear France (CFI, 16 April 2026)
In a decision of 16 April 2026 in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_138/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_522/2025), the Paris Local Division revokes in its entirety, for France, Michelin's EP 2 323 858 B1 on a variable surface area tyre tread, and…
Read the analysisBMS Innovations v BYD Company (CFI, 14 April 2026)
By an order of 14 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2070/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rules on the preliminary objection to international jurisdiction raised by three BYD group companies in BMS Innovations' infringement action on EP 2 937 706.
Read the analysisOrange v HMD Global (CFI, 10 April 2026)
By an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_301/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division allows Orange to file a further written response on the FRAND defence set out by HMD Global in the second part of its rejoinder, in the infringement…
Read the analysisSharkNinja Operating v Groupe SEB France (CFI, 10 April 2026)
By an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1594/2025), made after an inter partes exchange, the Paris Local Division dismisses SharkNinja's application for provisional measures against four SEB group companies concerning the Cookeo Infinity multicookers, under EP 3 689 198 as in force…
Read the analysisValeo Systèmes d’Essuyage v Robert Bosch d.o.o. Beograd (CFI, 23 March 2026)
In an order of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the panel of the Paris Local Division refused the request by Robert Bosch d.o.o. Beograd and five other Bosch group companies to review the judge-rapporteur's order of 17 February 2026,…
Read the analysisGowling WLG v Merz Therapeutics (CFI, 19 February 2026)
In an order of 19 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_283/2026), the Paris Local Division partly granted the law firm Gowling WLG access to the file of the provisional measures proceedings between Merz and Viatris Santé (UPC_CFI_697/2025), concerning EP 2 377 536 and supplementary protection…
Read the analysisVALEO SYSTEMES D’ESSUYAGE v ROBERT BOSCH DOO Beograd (CFI, 17 February 2026)
By order of 17 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1963/2025, EP 4 144 599), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed the preliminary objections of six Bosch group companies, sued for infringement by Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage, which challenged the Division's internal competence under Article…
Read the analysisBostic v Henkel France (CFI, 4 February 2026)
Open the entryKEEEX v ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND (CFI, 4 February 2026)
In an order of 4 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_530/2025), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismissed the request by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd and Adobe Inc.
Read the analysisGuardant Health v Sophia Genetics (CFI, 23 January 2026)
By an order of 23 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_808/2025), the Paris Local Division dismissed Guardant Health's application for provisional measures against four Sophia Genetics companies concerning the "MSK-ACCESS powered with SOPHiA DDM" liquid biopsy test.
Read the analysisIMC Créations v Mul-T-Lock France (CFI, 16 January 2026)
In its decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_702/2024 and UPC_CFI_369/2025), the Paris Local Division upholds, as limited, IMC Créations’ unitary patent EP 4 153 830 (lock with a slider and a base plate with a recess), dismisses Mul-T-Lock France’s counterclaim for revocation…
Read the analysisKEEEX v ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND (CFI, 27 November 2025)
In an order of 27 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed all preliminary objections raised by Adobe, OpenAI, Truepic, Joint Development Foundation Projects and C2PA in KEEEX's infringement action based on EP 2 949 070.
Read the analysisMerz therapeuthics v Viatris Santé (CFI, 21 November 2025)
Open the entrySun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, UPC_CFI_361/2025, 30 October 2025)
By order of 30 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2025, EP 3 852 468 with unitary effect), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel, dismissed the preliminary objection raised by Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia, Vivo Tech and Vivo Mobile Communication in Sun Patent…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, UPC_CFI_362/2025, 30 October 2025)
By order of 30 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_362/2025), the Paris Local Division rejected the preliminary objection raised by three Vivo companies against Sun Patent Trust's infringement action on EP 3 407 524.
Read the analysisRaccords et Plastiques Nicoll v First Plast France (CFI, 24 October 2025)
By decision of 24 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_612/2024, proceedings in French), the Paris Local Division dismissed the action for literal and equivalent infringement brought by Raccords et Plastiques Nicoll (RPN) against First Plast France, First Plast, First Corporation and Plasticos First Iberica, based…
Read the analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, 13 October 2025)
In an order of 13 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division refused to postpone the deadline for the Vivo companies' statement of defence in the infringement action brought by Sun Patent Trust on EP 3 407 524 (UPC_CFI_362/2025).
Read the analysisGuardant Health v Sophia Genetics (CFI, 1 October 2025)
In an order of 1 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_808/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division set the timetable for the provisional measures proceedings brought on 29 August 2025 by Guardant Health against four Sophia Genetics companies.
Read the analysisMerz Therapeutics v Viatris Santé (CFI, 17 September 2025)
By an order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2025, ORD_37065/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division limited the length of written pleadings in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Merz Therapeutics, Merz Pharmaceuticals and Merz Pharma France against Viatris Santé (EP 2…
Read the analysisKEEEX v Adobe Systems Software Ireland (CFI, 8 September 2025)
Read the French analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia (CFI, ORD_34798/2025, 26 August 2025)
Read the French analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia (CFI, ORD_34800/2025, 26 August 2025)
Read the French analysisN.J DIFFUSION v GISELA MAYER (CFI, 1 August 2025)
By a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling) dismissed N.J Diffusion's action for literal and equivalent infringement against Gisela Mayer based on EP 2 404 516, concerning a wig.
Read the analysisTIRU v MAGUIN (CFI, 22 July 2025)
By order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge-rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Lopes, and technically qualified Judge Fulconis) joined TIRU's infringement actions against MAGUIN and against VALINEA ENERGIE, based on EP 3 178 578 (waste…
Read the analysisTIRU (CFI, 22 July 2025)
Read the French analysisSun Patent Trust v Vivo Mobile Communication (CFI, 21 July 2025)
By order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_362/2025, ORD_33183/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Kupecz) set the protection regime for confidential information produced by the patentee in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against three Vivo…
Read the analysisVivo Mobile Communication Iber v Sun Patent Trust (CFI, 21 July 2025)
By an order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2025), the full panel of the Paris Local Division set the regime protecting the confidential information produced by Sun Patent Trust in its infringement action against three Vivo companies (EP 3 852 468).
Read the analysisN.J DIFFUSION v GISELA MAYER (CFI, 19 June 2025)
By a procedural order of 19 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, EP 2 404 516), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet and Schilling), on referral from the judge-rapporteur, held inadmissible GISELA MAYER's application for security for costs of EUR 50,000…
Read the analysisHurom v NUC Electronics Europe (CFI, 23 May 2025)
Read the French analysisArcelorMittal v XPENG (CFI, 29 April 2025)
By order of 29 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024, ACT_54607/2024, ORD_20010/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Lignières) permitted ArcelorMittal to withdraw the infringement action it had brought on 18 October 2024 on European patent EP 3 290 200 against seventeen defendants, including XPENG INC…
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Laser Components (CFI, 24 April 2025)
In a decision on the merits of 24 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023), the Paris Local Division holds that Laser Components SAS, a French distributor, infringes Seoul Viosys’ EP 3 404 726 (ultraviolet light-emitting device) by importing, offering, placing on the market and…
Read the analysisLIFE 365 v HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (CFI, 18 April 2025)
By procedural order of 18 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ORD_7615/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Lignières) partly granted LIFE 365 S.R.L.
Read the analysisLIFE 365 – LIFE365 ITALY (CFI, 18 April 2025)
Read the French analysisTIRU v MAGUIN (CFI, 24 March 2025)
By order of 24 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_813/2024, ORD_9276/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet and Lopes) rejected the request of MAGUIN, a manufacturer of rotary kilns, to set aside the order of 23 December 2024 that had authorised,…
Read the analysisTIRU v VALINEA ENERGIE (CFI, 24 March 2025)
By order of 24 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_814/2024, ORD_13139/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet and Lopes) rejected VALINEA ENERGIE's requests to set aside and to review the order of 23 December 2024 that had authorised, without hearing it,…
Read the analysisIMC Créations v Mul-T-Lock France (CFI, 21 March 2025)
By order of 21 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_702/2024, ORD_11997/2025), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding, Gillet, rapporteur, and Lopes) rejected the preliminary objection by Mul-T-Lock France and Mul-T-Lock Suisse challenging the UPC's jurisdiction over IMC Créations' infringement action insofar as it concerns…
Read the analysisN.J DIFFUSION v GISELA MAYER (CFI, 26 February 2025)
By order of 26 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_363/2024, ACT_39091/2024, ORD_6886/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) dismissed the application for security for costs filed by GISELA MAYER, defendant to the infringement action brought by N.J DIFFUSION on EP 2 404…
Read the analysisArcelorMittal v XPENG (CFI, 19 February 2025)
By order of 19 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024, ACT_54607/2024, ORD_8329/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) granted POSCO, as a member of the public, access to ArcelorMittal's statement of claim and its exhibits, except Exhibit 8, which is covered by…
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Laser Components (CFI, 17 February 2025)
By an order of 17 February 2025 issued after the interim conference (UPC_CFI_440/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division closed the interim procedure in Seoul Viosys’s infringement action against Laser Components over EP 3 404 726, in which Photon Wave is…
Read the analysisHurom v NUC Electronics (CFI, 5 February 2025)
By an order of 5 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_163/2024, ORD_4336/2025, EP 3 155 936), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (Judge Lignières) declared inadmissible the sections of Hurom's latest pleading dealing with infringement and remedies, together with two exhibits, and then allowed,…
Read the analysisC-KORE Systems v NOVAWELL (CFI, 29 January 2025)
By a decision of 29 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_468/2023, ORD_68856/2024, EP 2 265 793), the Paris Local Division (Judges Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, Gillet, Zana and Gaillarde, technically qualified) confirmed under Rule 365 the settlement concluded on 10 December 2024 between C-KORE Systems…
Read the analysisPhoton Wave v Seoul Viosys (CFI, 24 January 2025)
By an order of 24 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_238/2024), the full panel of the Paris Local Division, presided over by Judge Lignières, held inadmissible the standalone revocation action brought by Photon Wave against Seoul Viosys's patent EP 3 404 726.
Read the analysisN.J. DIFFUSION v GISELA MAYER (CFI, 20 January 2025)
By order of 20 January 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, Camille Lignières, dismissed the request by N.J. DIFFUSION, proprietor of EP 2 404 516 and claimant in the infringement action against GISELA MAYER (UPC_CFI_363/2024), to hold the interim conference…
Read the analysisHewlett-Packard Development v Lama France (CFI, 10 January 2025)
By order of 10 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris Local Division, on cross-applications for costs by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and Lama France following the decision on the merits of 13 November 2024, refused to raise the ceiling on representation costs by 50%…
Read the analysisArcelorMittal v XPENG (CFI, 9 January 2025)
By an order of 9 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_583/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (Judge Butin), after consulting the panel, granted the application of XPENG and sixteen other defendants to switch to English, the language in which EP 3290200 was…
Read the analysisTIRU v VALINEA ENERGIE (CFI, 23 December 2024)
By an order of 23 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_814/2024, ORD_67654/2024), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a single judge (Judge Lignières), authorised TIRU, without hearing the defendant, to have a detailed description, seizures and an inspection carried out at VALINEA ENERGIE's site in…
Read the analysisTIRU v MAGUIN (CFI, 23 December 2024)
By an order of 23 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_813/2024, ORD_67655/2024), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a single judge (Judge Lignières), authorised TIRU, without hearing the defendant, to carry out measures to preserve evidence and an inspection at MAGUIN's premises in Charmes, on…
Read the analysisLAMA FRANCE v HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (CFI, 19 December 2024)
By an order of 19 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ORD_66525/2024), the Paris Local Division, seized by LAMA FRANCE after its decision on the merits of 13 November 2024 in favour of HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY (HPDC), held that it had no power to stay…
Read the analysisICPillar v ARM (CFI, 13 December 2024)
By a decision of 13 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, ACT_596432/2023), the Paris Local Division permitted the withdrawal of ICPillar LLC's action for infringement of EP3000239 against ARM Limited and nine other companies, and of the counterclaims for revocation, following a confidential agreement reached…
Read the analysisDexCom v Abbott Diagnostics (CFI, 11 December 2024)
By a decision of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023), the Paris Local Division revoked in its entirety DexCom, Inc.'s EP 3 831 282, on remote monitoring of analyte measurements, on the counterclaim of fourteen Abbott group companies, and accordingly dismissed the infringement…
Read the analysisC-KORE SYSTEMS v Novawell (CFI, 26 November 2024)
By order of 26 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_468/2023, ACT_592899/2023), made after the interim conference of 22 November 2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C.
Read the analysisDexCom v Abbott Logistics (CFI, 25 November 2024)
By order of 25 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_62696/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières), in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Logistics B.V.
Read the analysisHEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT v LAMA FRANCE (CFI, 13 November 2024)
In a decision on the merits of 13 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris Local Division ruled on Hewlett-Packard Development Company’s (HPDC) infringement action against LAMA France, based on two inkjet printhead patents, EP 2 089 230 and EP 1 737 669, and…
Read the analysisAbbott Logistics v DexCom (CFI, 11 October 2024)
By order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_53788/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) dismissed the application by the Abbott companies, defendants in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282, to amend their case to take account…
Read the analysisI.G.B. v Unilever France (CFI, 24 September 2024)
By a procedural order of 24 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_494/2023, ACT_596431/2023, ORD_52883/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division held that Rule 263 did not apply to the auxiliary requests amended by Unilever France, the defendant in the action brought by I.G.B.
Read the analysisHewlett-Packard Development Company v LAMA France (CFI, 27 August 2024)
By order of 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_48649/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) granted Hewlett-Packard Development Company's request to hear, at the oral hearing of 2 October 2024, a witness employed by the HP…
Read the analysisHEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT v LAMA FRANCE (CFI, 21 August 2024)
By order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_47694/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) excluded from the proceedings most of the brief filed on 15 July 2024 by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and of the brief…
Read the analysisHEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT v LAMA FRANCE (CFI, 2 August 2024)
Read the French analysisAbbott Diabetes Care v Dexcom (CFI, 31 July 2024)
By order of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_425/2023, ORD_36398/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care's application under Rule 191 RoP for Dexcom Inc., Dexcom International and Dexcom France to disclose the entire distribution chain of the G6 and…
Read the analysisCANÈ v France Développement Électronique (CFI, 26 July 2024)
By decision of 26 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_419/2023, ORD_43695/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, sitting as single judge, confirmed the settlement of 20 June 2024 ending CANÈ's infringement action against France Développement Électronique on EP 3 181 168, ordered reimbursement to…
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Laser Components (CFI, 24 July 2024)
By order of 24 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023, ORD_41423/2024), the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières, presiding and rapporteur, C.
Read the analysisDexCom v Abbott Scandinavia Aktiebolag (CFI, 4 July 2024)
By a decision of 4 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2023, ACT_546446/2023), following an oral hearing on 24 May 2024, the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, R.
Read the analysisICPillar v Arm (CFI, 21 May 2024)
By order of 21 May 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023), the Paris Local Division ordered ICPillar, proprietor of EP 3 000 239 and claimant in an infringement action against several Arm group companies, to provide security for costs of EUR 400,000 within six weeks.
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Photon Wave (CFI, 6 May 2024)
By an order of 6 May 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023, ORD_18404/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C.
Read the analysisSVF Holdco v ICPillar (CFI, 11 April 2024)
By an order of 11 April 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, ACT_596432/2023, ORD_18817/2024), the Paris Local Division (Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Gillet, Rinkinen) dismissed the preliminary objections to jurisdiction raised by ARM Limited, several Arm group companies and SVF Holdco Limited in the infringement action…
Read the analysisNOVAWELL v C-KORE SYSTEMS (CFI, 26 March 2024)
By an order of 26 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_397/2023, ORD_12088/2024), judge-rapporteur Lignières of the Paris Local Division set up a confidentiality club for the confidential information in the expert's report of 5 February 2024, drawn up following the saisie ordered on 14 November…
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Laser Components (CFI, 14 March 2024)
By an order of 13 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023, order no. 13006, App_12803/2024), the Paris Local Division (C.
Read the analysisC-KORE SYSTEMS v NOVAWELL (CFI, 1 March 2024)
By an order of 1 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_397/2023, order no. 9825), the full panel of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières, presiding and judge-rapporteur, C.
Read the analysisICPillar v Arm (CFI, 28 February 2024)
By an order of 28 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, ACT_596432/2023, order no. 10136, App_8330/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C.
Read the analysisSeoul Viosys v Laser Components (CFI, 27 February 2024)
By an order of 27 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_440/2023, ACT_588685/2023, ORD_10099/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignieres), after consulting the panel, declined to propose to the parties a change from French to English, the language in which EP 3 404…
Read the analysisAbbott Diabetes Care v Dexcom (CFI, 12 February 2024)
By an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_425/2023, ORD_7664/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 988 471 against Dexcom Inc., Dexcom International Limited and Dexcom France SAS, aligned the start of…
Read the analysisDexCom v Abbott Laboratories (CFI, 12 February 2024)
By an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ORD_7657/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in DexCom, Inc.'s infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Laboratories and thirteen other defendants, aligned the start of the time limit for the…
Read the analysisICPillar v Arm Poland Sp. z.o.o. (CFI, 12 February 2024)
By an order of 12 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_495/2023, Order no. 7671, Application no. 5858/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division, in ICPillar LLC's infringement action on EP 3 000 239 against several Arm group companies and other defendants, authorised service by…
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