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In an order registered on 2 November 2026 (UPC_CFI_478/2025 and UPC_CFI_585/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division records the decisions taken at the interim conference of 26 October 2026 in Avient’s action against Xingi concerning EP 2 791 402.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 October 2026 in two joined proceedings (UPC_CFI_2594/2026 and UPC_CFI_2595/2026), The Hague Local Division ruled on Versuni’s applications for provisional measures against Dreame concerning the Mira Mop electric mop.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 October 2026 in two joined proceedings (UPC_CFI_2594/2026 and UPC_CFI_2595/2026), The Hague Local Division ruled on Versuni’s applications for provisional measures against Dreame concerning the Mira Mop electric mop.
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1615/2026) under Rule 353 RoP, the single judge of The Hague Local Division rectifies point 5.4 of his provisional measures order of 8 October 2026, which, copying the application, covered iHerb websites in all EPC…
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1615/2026), the single judge of The Hague Local Division, sitting with the parties’ consent, grants Caelus Lifesciences IP’s application for provisional measures based on EP 2 753 187 B2, which protects Eubacterium hallii and/or Alcaligenes…
Read the analysisBy an order of 23 September 2026, published on 16 October 2026, Judge-rapporteur Edger Brinkman of The Hague Local Division set the next steps in Koninklijke Philips’s infringement actions against Quectel Wireless Solutions and eight other companies (UPC_CFI_2244/2025 and UPC_CFI_2245/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_1450/2026…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division draws the consequences of the second case management hearing held on 8 September 2026 in the infringement actions brought by Koninklijke Philips against Quectel and related companies, with counterclaims…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_1830/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed two applications by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Lonza Netherlands in ToolGen's infringement action based on EP 4 397 760 (genome editing using guide RNA and Cas protein), directed…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division defers Moderna’s preliminary objection on international jurisdiction to the main proceedings, dismisses its Rule 361 request and provisionally grants confidentiality protection limited to the representatives of CureVac Manufacturing GmbH.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 September 2026, the panel of the Hague Local Division hearing GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA v Moderna (EP 2 590 626) revoked, after the oral hearing of 1 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur's order excluding GSK's new cryo-TEM imaging reports as…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its three infringement actions against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co. Ltd. and nine other defendants on EP 2 712 236, EP 3 836 631 and EP 3 245 744, following a settlement…
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna on EP 4 241 767 and of the counterclaim for revocation (paragraph 4).
Read the analysisThe Hague Local Division allows the withdrawal, following a settlement, of the infringement action brought by Genevant Sciences GmbH and Arbutus Biopharma Corporation against Moderna, Inc.
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 August 2026 issued in the joined files UPC_CFI_620/2025, UPC_CFI_1509/2025 and UPC_CFI_1511/2025, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepared the oral hearing of 3 September 2026 in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and the Pfizer and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 July 2026 issued in the joined proceedings UPC-CFI-0001536/2025, UPC-CFI-0000982/2026 and UPC-CFI-0001168/2026 (EP 3 079 153), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application for panel review brought by Dolby International AB and the intervener Vectis IP Ltd.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 July 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_565/2024 (and proceedings UPC-CFI-0002246/2025) concerning EP 2 337 403 and EP 3 944 587, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division ruled on the confidentiality club in Koninklijke KPN v…
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1048/2025), the Hague Local Division declares inadmissible BTL Medizintechnik GmbH's request for reimbursement of 60% of the court fees following withdrawal of its infringement action against Lexter Microelectronic Engineering Systems S.L.
Read the analysisBy decision of 10 August 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_251/2025) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_769/2025), The Hague Local Division revokes Maxell, Ltd.’s EP 2 061 230 in its entirety and accordingly dismisses the action against four Samsung companies,…
Read the analysisBy order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_619/2025, UPC_CFI_1526/2025 and UPC_CFI_2033/2025), The Hague Local Division deals, in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and thirteen Moderna group companies, with the consequences of EPO decisions on two divisional patents stemming from the same application.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_621/2025, UPC_CFI_1707/2025 and UPC_CFI_1708/2025), The Hague Local Division deals, in the dispute between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and companies of the Pfizer and BioNTech groups, with the consequences of EPO decisions on two divisional patents stemming from…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 July 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division recorded the parties' agreement in Qord IP Protection's infringement action concerning EP 2 047 617: SmartThings appears voluntarily, and the time limit for the Statement of Defence (Rule 23)…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 28 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1540/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division extends, for all defendants (Eppen Netherlands, three Eppen companies based in China and Oostvogels Logistics), the deadline for the statement of defence to six weeks after…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 July 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismisses CureVac Manufacturing GmbH’s Rule 190 RoP application for Moderna to produce extracts from its CTD dossier and technical data sheets on an RNA manufacturing process, and confirms the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 June 2026, following a hearing on 9 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1103/2026), the single judge of The Hague Local Division, on WEPA Nederland's request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP), confirms the ex parte order of 17 April 2026 that…
Read the analysisIn the action for infringement of EP 2 590 626 brought by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA against thirty Pfizer and BioNTech group companies (UPC_CFI_620/2025) and the joined counterclaims for revocation (UPC_CFI_1509/2025 and UPC_CFI_1511/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepares the oral…
Read the analysisIn proceedings UPC_CFI_1568/2025, UPC_CFI_1791/2025 and UPC_CFI_1793/2025 brought by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co.
Read the analysisIn the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_616/2025 (infringement) and UPC_CFI_1439/2025 (counterclaim for revocation) between GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA and Moderna Netherlands B.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 June 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division stays infringement action UPC_CFI_502/2024 brought by Koninklijke KPN N.V. against Oleading B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 June 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the joint request of KPN and Oleading and others to vary the order of 28 May 2026 (Rule 335 RoP).
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 May 2026 in joined infringement actions UPC_CFI_565/2024 and UPC_CFI_2246/2025 brought by Koninklijke KPN N.V. against Oleading B.V., Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2026 in UPC_CFI_2228/2025 and UPC_CFI_1546/2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division ordered BMS Innovations, which is suing several BYD group companies for infringement of EP3393001, to provide security of EUR 350,000 for the costs of the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 May 2026 in infringement actions UPC_CFI_1568/2025, UPC_CFI_1791/2025 and UPC_CFI_1793/2025 brought by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and nine other defendants, The Hague Local Division sets up a phased confidentiality regime for Ericsson's comparable licences…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2026 in UPC_CFI_2228/2025 and UPC_CFI_1546/2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division, ruling on BYD's preliminary objection in BMS Innovations' infringement action on EP3393001, declined jurisdiction over BYD (U.K.), deferred to the main proceedings the objection concerning…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1613/2025 and UPC_CFI_943/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division deferred to the main proceedings the preliminary objection raised by Sinocare Inc and the other defendants in Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s action for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 May 2026, issued in the three infringement actions UPC_CFI_1568/2025, UPC_CFI_1791/2025 and UPC_CFI_1793/2025 brought by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co.
Read the analysisIn the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1568/2025, UPC_CFI_1791/2025 and UPC_CFI_1793/2025 (EP 2 712 236, EP 3 836 631 and EP 3 245 744), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division refuses the Transsion defendants an extension of the deadline for their non-technical statement of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_478/2025 and UPC_CFI_585/2026), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly grants Avient Protective Materials' application for production of evidence (Rule 190 RoP) against the Xingi Group, in an infringement action on EP 2 791…
Read the analysisFollowing the case management hearing of 5 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division directs, in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_1568/2025, UPC_CFI_1791/2025 and UPC_CFI_1793/2025 between Ericsson and Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co.
Read the analysisIn the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_616/2025 and UPC_CFI_1439/2025 concerning EP 2 590 626, held by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismisses two applications: GSK's request for five party experts to be heard in person, and Moderna's third request…
Read the analysisIn an order delivered on 30 April 2026 and reasoned in writing on 4 May 2026, in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2028/2025 and UPC_CFI_2031/2025, the single judge of The Hague Local Division dismisses Krahn Chemie Benelux's request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) of the…
Read the analysisAt the defendants' request, and with no objection from Dolby International AB or the intervener Vectis IP Ltd., the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division corrects an obvious error in the order of 1 May 2026 in proceedings UPC_CFI_1536/2025, UPC_CFI_982/2026 and UPC_CFI_1168/2026…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1536/2025, UPC_CFI_982/2026 and UPC_CFI_1168/2026), the panel of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request for review under Rule 333 RoP of the judge-rapporteur's order of 1 May 2026, which had held admissible Acer's counterclaim for rate-setting…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 30 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division records the exchanges at the case management hearing held online and behind closed doors on 23 February 2026 in the infringement action brought by Dolby International AB against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_721/2025 and the counterclaim UPC_CFI_1695/2025, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly grants TMS's request for production of evidence under Rule 190 RoP.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_305/2026), The Hague Local Division dismisses Stratasys' application for provisional measures against Bambulab under EP 2 964 450, on an additive manufacturing method using purge towers, directed at BambuLab H2C 3D printers.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1103/2026), made without hearing the defendant, the single judge of The Hague Local Division authorises Essity Hygiene and Health to carry out, at WEPA Nederland's premises, a detailed description, the taking of samples and the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1612/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division classifies as confidential technical information on a defendant's process, contained in the statement of defence and exhibit ES5, in Umicore's infringement action on EP 4 087 952…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2246/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division grants the parties’ joint request in the infringement action brought by Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 April 2026, issued after the interim conference (Rule 105.5), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division prepares the oral hearing in Maxell’s infringement action against four Samsung companies on EP 2 061 230 and in the counterclaim for…
Read the analysisBy a so-called preliminary order dated 2 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division sets out his proposed summary of the case management hearing of 23 February 2026 in Dolby International’s infringement action on EP 3 079 153 against CPYou…
Read the analysisBy order of 18 February 2026 in proceedings UPC_CFI_616/2025 and UPC_CFI_1439/2025 (EP 2 590 626), the judge-rapporteur of the Hague Local Division allowed GSK to extend its action against Moderna to the mNEXSPIKE product, dismissed Moderna's application to strike material from the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 February 2026, given in the infringement action on EP 1 969 839 (UPC_CFI_666/2024) and proceedings UPC_CFI_199/2025, the Hague Local Division allowed the withdrawals that followed the settlement between Adeia Guides Inc.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 16 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1048/2025), The Hague Local Division allowed BTL Medizintechnik to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 146 335 against Lexter Microelectronic Engineering Systems following a settlement, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 December 2025, The Hague Local Division (presiding judge and judge-rapporteur sitting alone) refused a third party's request for access to the file of provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_830/2025, brought by Abbott Diabetes Care against MicroTech Medical (Hangzhou) and…
Read the analysisIn Maxell’s infringement action against Samsung on EP 2 061 230 and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_251/2025 and UPC_CFI_769/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division refuses Samsung a six-week extension of its time limit and admits the 44 auxiliary requests filed…
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 December 2025, The Hague Local Division held inadmissible, and in the alternative dismissed, the defendant's application to set aside the default decision of 21 October 2025 in Amycel's infringement action (EP 1 993 350 B2).
Read the analysisIn the infringement action brought by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA against fifteen Moderna group companies (UPC_CFI_619/2025), The Hague Local Division orders of its own motion, under Rule 302.1 RoP, that the single counterclaim for revocation directed at EP 4 066 856 and EP…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 November 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_187/2024 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_507/2024, the Hague Local Division held Advanced Cell Diagnostics' EP 1 910 572 and EP 2 500 439 (multiplex in situ hybridisation) valid, but found no infringement by…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_321/2025), the Hague Local Division granted, with the defendants' consent, AdvanSix Resins & Chemicals' withdrawal of its action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 against Troy Chemical and five other companies, following a stay…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 November 2025, made after the interim conference (Rule 105.5) in Adeia Guides’ infringement action against three Disney group companies concerning EP 1 969 839 and in the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_478/2025, EP 2 791 402), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division authorised Avient Protective Materials to serve its Statement of Claim on two Chinese companies, referred to together as 'Xinji', by personal delivery by a…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_587/2025), The Hague Local Division dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care's application for provisional measures against Sinocare and A.
Read the analysisBy a decision by default of 21 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division, sitting as a full panel, upheld Amycel's infringement action based on EP 1 993 350 B2 concerning brown mushrooms for commercial production, against a defendant established in Poland…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_624/2025), The Hague Local Division granted Abbott Diabetes Care's application for provisional measures against Sinocare and A.
Read the analysisIn an order of 25 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_897/2025), the standing judge of The Hague Local Division granted, without hearing the other side, a precautionary seizure of an SD-14010 machine exhibited by the Turkish company Esde Makine at an agricultural trade fair in…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_479/2025, ORD_36945/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hague Local Division recorded the intention of Washtower IP and Washtower to enforce parts I.B, I.C, II, IV and V of the provisional measures order of 11 September 2025…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_479/2025), the Hague Local Division largely granted the application for provisional measures brought by Washtower IP and Washtower against IBBH, BEGA Consult, BEGA BBK and NEG Novex, based on unitary patent EP 3 522 755…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_374/2025, ORD_32992/2025), the Hague Local Division dismissed the application for provisional measures brought by Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon against RiVOLUTiON on the unitary patent EP 3 689 262 for surgical staple cartridges.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_455/2024 and UPC_CFI_684/2024), the Hague Local Division dismissed both City Glass and Glazing Private Limited's infringement action against four Maars group companies and their counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 1 651 838, a glazing system…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024, ORD_35239/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman) rejected Black Sheep Retail Products' application to deposit two physical objects (exhibits BB38) in HL Display's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request by Black Sheep Retail Products, defendant to HL Display's infringement action (EP 2 432 351), to deposit three physical objects.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025, ORD_34921/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman), with no objection from the Walt Disney group defendants, granted Adeia Guides' application of 5 August 2025, made because exhibits 8…
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