15 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 15 August 2025 under Rule 105.5 RoP, following the interim conference of 17 June 2025, Judge Brinkman, judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division, set the oral hearing in HL Display's action for infringement of EP 2 432 351…
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15 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By procedural order of 15 August 2025, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the parties' joint request (App_34891/2025 of 14 August 2025) and stayed until 13 February 2026 the action for infringement of EP 3 286 270 brought by…
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13 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By procedural order of 13 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_191/2025, App_34218/2025 and App_34202/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division partly granted the applications by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma for an extension of time in their action for infringement of EP 2…
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13 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_736/2025), the single judge of The Hague Local Division authorised CJ CheilJedang, without hearing the defendants, to seize three bags of Daesang's powdered L‑lysine and copies of commercial and technical documents at a Dutch warehouse in…
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13 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order
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13 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By decision of 13 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024 and CC_53523/2024), The Hague Local Division (Presiding Judge Brinkman as judge rapporteur, Judges Rinkinen and Kokke and Technical Judge Sanchini) dismissed Winnow Solutions' infringement action against Orbisk and, on the counterclaim, revoked EP 3…
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13 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_739/2025), The Hague Local Division, sitting as a single judge and without hearing the defendants, allowed CJ CheilJedang to carry out a seizure of evidence at a Dutch warehouse storing liquid L-lysine made by the Daesang…
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4 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Amend Document
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4 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262A
Decision with commentary
By order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_617/2025, ACT_10280/2025 and CC_32138/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division confirmed, on two applications by Moderna under Rule 262A RoP, the confidentiality regime agreed with Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma in the…
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1 August 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 1 August 2025, given in both proceedings UPC_CFI_587/2025 and UPC_CFI_624/2025 (ACT_30994/2025 and ACT_32414/2025), the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the applications by A.
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12 June 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application Rop 333
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4 June 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
The judge rapporteur of The Hague Local Division rectified under Rule 353 the order of 23 May 2025 on Moderna's preliminary objections in the actions brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus (UPC_CFI_191/2025 and UPC_CFI_192/2025, EP 2 279 254 and EP 4 241…
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23 May 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Preliminary objection
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23 May 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Preliminary objection
Decision with commentary
By joint order of 23 May 2025 in the joined infringement actions UPC_CFI_191/2025 (EP 2 279 254) and UPC_CFI_192/2025 (EP 4 241 767) brought by Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma against fifteen Moderna group companies, the judge rapporteur of The Hague Local…
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29 April 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By order of 29 April 2025 (ORD_13031/2025), The Hague Local Division allowed, following a settlement, the withdrawal of Hand Held Products' infringement action against Scandit AG and Scandit Inc on European patent EP 4 163 816 (UPC_CFI_562/2024) and of Scandit's counterclaim for…
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17 April 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
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17 April 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
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1 April 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 1 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2024), The Hague Local Division (Judges Brinkman, presiding, Lopez and Kokke, rapporteur) rejected the application for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) filed by the defendant, a natural person whose name is redacted, in Amycel LLC's…
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1 April 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
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18 March 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_554/2024, ACT_53296/2024, ORD_53411/2024), made for the Hague Local Division by P.
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19 February 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By an order of 19 February 2025 (ORD_7979/2025, UPC_CFI_16/2025), Judge Margot Kokke, judge rapporteur in The Hague Local Division, granted four employees of Mammoet Holding B.V.
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29 January 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
Decision with commentary
By an order of 29 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_424/2023, ORD_68588/2024, EP 4 070 727), The Hague Local Division allowed, with the consent of all parties, the withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action against Dexcom Inc.
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29 January 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Withdrawal (RoP265)
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29 January 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
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22 January 2025
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192
Decision with commentary
By an order of 22 January 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Kokke), sitting alone, granted in part and without hearing the defendant measures to preserve evidence sought by Mammoet Holding against P.T.S.
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18 December 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 19 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_499/2024, ACT_48877/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division held that Amycel LLC's statement of claim (EP 1993350) had been validly served on a defendant based in Poland, whose name is redacted, by alternative means…
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22 November 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
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22 November 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Counterclaim for revocation
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19 November 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
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14 October 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order
Decision with commentary
By order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_44108/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) partly granted the request of Winnow Solutions, proprietor of EP 3 198 245 on monitoring food waste, for Orbisk to produce evidence on its…
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14 October 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
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17 September 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Amend Document
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17 September 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Amend Document
Decision with commentary
By a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (ACT_586899/2023, ORD_52140/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) granted Dexcom leave to amend its counterclaim for revocation of EP 4 070 727 B1 by adding a request for a declaration of…
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6 August 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_45347/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman), in Winnow Solutions' infringement action on EP 3 198 245 against Orbisk, extended to 6 September 2024 Orbisk's time to reply to the request…
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31 July 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for provisional measures
Decision with commentary
By order of 31 July 2024 (UPC_CFI_195/2024, ACT_23163/2024, ORD_44133/2024), The Hague Local Division granted the application for provisional measures by Amycel LLC, proprietor of EP 1 993 350 B2 on a hybrid brown button mushroom strain, against a Polish grower whose name…
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29 July 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262.1 (b)
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29 July 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262.1 (b)
Decision with commentary
By order of 29 July 2024 (ORD_39917/2024, UPC_CFI_130/2024, ACT_14944/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the firm Powell Gilbert access to the written pleadings and evidence in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Abbott Diabetes Care against Sibio Technology and…
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21 June 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 25 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_195/2024, ACT_23163/2024, App_35134/2024, ORD_35405/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (M. Kokke), in provisional measures proceedings brought by Amycel LLC, proprietor of EP 1 993 350, against Szymon Spyra, rejected the request for court-arranged…
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19 June 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for provisional measures
Decision with commentary
By an order of 19 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_130/2024, ACT_14944/2024, ORD_30434/2024), The Hague Local Division granted Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s application for provisional measures based on EP 2 713 879 and issued an injunction against Sibio Technology Limited and Umedwings Netherlands B.V.
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19 June 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for provisional measures
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19 June 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for provisional measures
Decision with commentary
By an order of 19 June 2024 (UPC_CFI_131/2024, ACT_14945/2024, ORD_30431/2024), The Hague Local Division dismissed Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s application for provisional measures based on EP 3 831 283 against Sibio Technology Limited and Umedwings Netherlands B.V.
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19 June 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application for provisional measures
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15 May 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262A
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15 May 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262A
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1 May 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By a decision of 1 May 2024 (UPC_CFI_379/2023, ACT_581723/2023, App_12133/2024), the Hague Local Division recorded, following a settlement, the withdrawal by Keestrack N.V.
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4 March 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 4 March 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, App_589842/2023), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division granted the confidentiality application of Plant-e, proprietor of EP 2 137 782, in its dispute with Arkyne Technologies (referred to as "Bioo" in the order).
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4 March 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262A
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3 March 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Application RoP262A
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15 February 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 15 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ORD_8243/2024), The Hague Local Division, in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782 brought by Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
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13 February 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Generic application
Decision with commentary
By an order of 13 February 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, App_586761/2023), The Hague Local Division dismissed the application by Arkyne Technologies S.L., defendant in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782, for Plant-e Knowledge B.V.
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9 February 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 9 February 2024 in infringement action UPC_CFI_424/2023 (EP 4 070 727), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division aligned the deadline for both defendants, Dexcom Inc.
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17 January 2024
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Procedural Order
Decision with commentary
By an order of 17 January 2024 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, ACT_549536/2023, CC_588768/2023, ORD_2223/2024), issued of its own motion by the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (M.
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22 December 2023
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 22 December 2023 (UPC_CFI_424/2023, ACT_586899/2023), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division found, in Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action (EP 4 070 727), that the statement of claim had been properly served on Dexcom International Limited on 20 December…
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18 October 2023
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By order of 18 October 2023 (UPC_CFI_239/2023), the President of the Court of First Instance, having consulted the panel of The Hague Local Division, granted the application of Arkyne Technologies, defendant in the infringement action brought by Plant-e Knowledge and Plant-e on…
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3 August 2023
CFI / The Hague (NL) Local Division / Infringement Action
Decision with commentary
By procedural decision given on 2 August 2023 (UPC_CFI_239/2023, application 551178/2023), the judge of The Hague Local Division granted the request of Plant-e Knowledge and Plant-e, claimants in the infringement action on EP 2 137 782 against Arkyne Technologies, conducted in Dutch:…
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