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In a decision of 28 October 2026 (UPC_CoA_154/2026), the President of the Court of Appeal, acting as judge-rapporteur, orders that a London law firm be given, after redaction of personal data, Sumi Agro’s request for rehearing of 5 May 2025 and Syngenta’s…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 26 October 2026 (UPC_CoA_155/2026 and UPC_CoA_156/2026), the Court of Appeal largely grants a London law firm’s request for access to the pleadings and evidence in Suinno’s applications for rehearing against Microsoft (UPC_CoA_883/2025 and UPC_CoA_892/2025), after redaction of personal…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 26 October 2026 (UPC_CoA_155/2026 and UPC_CoA_156/2026), the Court of Appeal largely grants a London law firm’s request for access to the pleadings and evidence in Suinno’s applications for rehearing against Microsoft (UPC_CoA_883/2025 and UPC_CoA_892/2025), after redaction of personal…
Read the analysisDecisions of the judge-rapporteur on public access to written pleadings and evidence under Rule 262.1(b) RoP are subject to review by the panel under Rule 333, whose notion of a case management decision or order calls for a broad interpretation (para.
Read the analysisBy order of 29 June 2026 (UPC_CoA_52/2026), panel 3 of the Court of Appeal dismissed Huawei's appeal against the decision of the Munich Local Division of 26 March 2026, which had upheld access for the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 May 2026 (UPC_CoA_39/2026), given in German by the judge-rapporteur, the Court of Appeal grants the request of Anker Innovations Deutschland, sued by Philips in parallel proceedings on EP 2 867 997, for access to the pleadings and exhibits…
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1034/2025 and UPC_CFI_931/2026, EP 3 909 047), the Düsseldorf Local Division grants Yangtze Memory Technologies the confidentiality protection it sought for a TechInsights technical report (Exhibit BB 24) and for the passages of its reply…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1034/2025 and UPC_CFI_931/2026), the Düsseldorf Local Division deals with Micron's request under Rule 262A RoP to protect its estimated 2026 gross profit from direct sales of the attacked products in Germany and France (EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1234/2025), the Munich Local Division upholds its judge-rapporteur's decision of 27 January 2026 granting the law firm Quinn Emanuel partial, redacted access to the pleadings in Huawei v MediaTek (UPC_CFI_248/2025 and UPC_CFI_668/2025, EP 3 905…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_282/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division largely granted Gowling WLG's request, as a member of the public under Rule 262.1(b) RoP, for access to the pleadings in the provisional measures proceedings between Boehringer…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 26 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_1235/2025, EP 4 142 215), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division amended his own order of 27 January 2026, which had largely granted the law firm Quinn Emanuel access to the parties' written…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_10/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal granted Gowling WLG, a non-party firm, access to ten pleadings and documents in the appeal Sumi Agro v Syngenta (UPC_CoA_523/2024, EP 2 152 073), subject to redaction of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026 (UPC_CoA_9/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal partly granted the law firm Gowling WLG access to three written pleadings lodged on appeal in the dispute between Boehringer Ingelheim and Zentiva Portugal concerning EP 1…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisThe Court of Appeal dismisses Huawei’s appeals against the orders of the Munich Local Division of 28 November 2025 granting TP-Link access to written pleadings in the closed actions between Huawei and Netgear concerning the patent asserted against TP-Link (paras.
Read the analysisIn the appeal brought by Merz Pharmaceuticals LLC, Merz Therapeutics GmbH and Merz Pharma France against the order of the Paris Local Division of 21 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_697/2025), which had refused their application for provisional measures against Viatris Santé based on French…
Read the analysisNon-public details of licence negotiations constitute confidential information within the meaning of Rule 262A, and protection may be extended in advance to all future pleadings relating to those negotiations, to avoid repeated orders, each party retaining the option to seek enhanced protection…
Read the analysisA licence agreement concluded with a third party is classified as highly confidential information, access being reserved to three designated persons of the claimant, its economic expert and that expert’s team, and the representatives registered in the parallel proceedings, exhaustively listed.
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, sitting alone, grants Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP access to Insulet Corporation’s Statement of Appeal and to a redacted version of EOFLow Co., Ltd.’s Statement of Response in appeal UPC_CoA_768/2024 (EP 4 201 327), decided…
Read the analysisThe judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal, sitting alone, rejects the request of Docket Navigator, which runs a patent litigation tracking platform, for access to the written pleadings and evidence in appeal UPC_CoA_523/2024 between Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro Europe Limited…
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 analysisThe Court of Appeal orders, without hearing TP-Link, that Huawei’s appeals have suspensive effect for the duration of the proceedings and that TP-Link is not to have access to the pleadings covered by the order of the Munich Local Division of 28…
Read the analysisIn an order of 5 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division stayed, at the parties' joint request, cost proceedings UPC_CFI_775/2025, 776/2025 and 777/2025 between Edwards Lifesciences and the Meril group (EP 3 769 722) pending the decision of the…
Read the analysisThe Milan Central Division ordered EOFLOW to pay a penalty of EUR 150,000 for violating the preliminary injunction granted by the Court of Appeal on 30 April 2025, on the basis of evidence that EOFLOW had exported 11,520 insulin pump devices to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Bekaert Binjiang Steel Cord of the expert report drawn up after the inspection carried out on 11 November 2024 at the premises of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division partly granted Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer's request for access to the file of the proceedings Insulet v EOFLOW (UPC_CFI_380/2024).
Read the analysisIn an order of 23 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_342/2025), issued in Italian, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division organised access to the documents gathered when a seizure to preserve evidence was executed for 3V Sigma against ACEF and AGA.
Read the analysisBy a provisional order of 11 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025), the presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division protected under Rule 262A the technical information in MediaTek Germany's Statement of Defence and revocation counterclaim on the operation of certain chips, in Huawei's infringement…
Read the analysisBy an additional order of 10 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024, App_35230/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division supplemented, by way of correction, the confidentiality order of 9 September 2025 in Ona Patents v Google Ireland (EP 2 263 098).
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 September 2025 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024 (App_35230/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Ona Patents' confidentiality request covering its brief of 20 August 2025 and Exhibits KAP 21 to KAP 33, and…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_724/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division restricted to Suinno's managing director and representative access to the lawyers' invoices lodged by Microsoft in the cost proceedings concerning EP 2 671 173.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with no objection from Hologic, granted the Siemens defendants' confidentiality application in the infringement action on EP 2 352 431 B1 and the counterclaim for revocation: information on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_472/2024, ORD_33090/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division classified as confidential the information on Dainese's financial situation filed in the security for costs application brought by the defendants, including Alpinestars.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (ORD_33611/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the law firm Taylor Wessing, acting as a member of the public, access in redacted form to six pleadings in NEC's infringement action against TCL (UPC_CFI_487/2023,…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_35006/2025), the presiding judge and rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Judge U. Voß) largely granted the confidentiality application lodged by Huawei on 15 August 2025 in its infringement action against MediaTek concerning…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal dismisses, without examining their substance, the confidentiality requests (Rule 262A RoP) filed by Kodak with its statements of grounds of appeal (UPC_CoA_312/2025 and UPC_CoA_333/2025) against the decisions of the…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 12 August 2025, issued in American Wave Machines' action for infringement of EP 2 728 089 against Surftown, WhiteWater Era, WhiteWater West Industries and Endless Surf and in the joined counterclaims for revocation (UPC_CFI_837/2024, UPC_CFI_349/2025 and UPC_CFI_394/2025), the…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_140/2024 and UPC_CFI_658/2025, App_33044/2025), Judge Thomas, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, classified as confidential the information highlighted in the application for a costs decision filed on 16 July 2025 by 10x…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025, ORD_33620/2025), Judge Voß, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, classified as confidential the information on licence negotiations between Huawei and the MediaTek group contained in MediaTek Germany's request for production…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_254/2025, ACT_14180/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the confidentiality application of MediaTek Germany, defendant in Huawei Technologies' infringement action (EP 4 142 215).
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_208/2024 and UPC_CFI_504/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division granted the request for access to the file made by Renault SAS, a third party which the proprietor had accused of infringement out of court,…
Read the analysisBy 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 analysisBy 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 analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_484/2025, ORD_27316/2025), the judge rapporteur Haedicke (Paris Central Division) ruled on the confidentiality of the cost figures contained in the application for a cost decision (Rule 151 RoP) filed by Kinexon after its revocation action against…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_846/2024, App_29243/2025), the judge rapporteur Kupecz (Munich Local Division) rejected the requests for protection of confidential information filed by the BioNTech and Pfizer companies, defendants to the infringement action under EP 2 401 365 brought by…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2025, App_27426/2025), the judge rapporteur Schumacher (Düsseldorf Local Division) set the protection regime for confidential information produced by bioMérieux S.A.
Read the analysisBy order of 30 June 2025, Judge Visser, presiding judge and judge rapporteur (Paris Central Division), granted Acer Computer access to the statement for revocation and its exhibits, the defence, the reply and the rejoinder in HP Printing and Computing Solutions' revocation…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division granted Acer Computer access to the application to amend the patent and its exhibits, the defence to that application and the reply, filed in HP Printing and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division granted the firm Bardehle Pagenberg, as a member of the public, access to the statement for revocation, the defence, the reply and the rejoinder, with their exhibits,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_504/2023, EP 1 970 677), Judge-rapporteur Schumacher (Düsseldorf Local Division) granted, without opposition, the application by Rubin Medical, the sixth defendant, to protect the unredacted settlement agreement concluded with F.
Read the analysisOn Insulet's application in its claim against EOFLOW for the costs of the provisional measures proceedings on EP 4 201 327, the judge rapporteur of the Milan Central Division partly protected the fee evidence filed.
Read the analysisThe judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK's confidentiality request concerning the information they were ordered to provide to Hurom by the merits decision of 11 March 2025 (EP 2 028 981) and had lodged with…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 20 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division granted the application for protection of confidential information filed by three of the defendants (Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Tandem Diabetes Care Europe and Rubin Medical) in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 May 2025, the judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division protected, in the provisional measures proceedings brought by DDP Specialty Electronic Materials US against Greenchemicals under EP 1 957 544 B1 (UPC_CFI_203/2025), financial information contained in the applicant's…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 May 2025, the judge rapporteur Thomas (Düsseldorf Local Division) classified as confidential, in Ona Patents' infringement action on EP 2 263 098 against the Apple companies and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024), the highlighted information in…
Read the analysisThe regime reserved to external counsel and experts only is rejected. Article 58 UPCA and Rule 262A require a fair balance between the parties’ opposing interests, and Rule 262A.6, as interpreted by the Court of Appeal on 12 February 2025, requires that…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 April 2025 (no. 69253/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set up the protection of confidential information filed by ASUSTeK in Ericsson's infringement action based on EP 3 076 673 (UPC_CFI_319/2024) and in the counterclaim for revocation…
Read the analysisBy order of 28 April 2025 (ORD_20073/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division ruled on the protection of confidential information filed by ASUSTeK in Ericsson's infringement action UPC_CFI_318/2024 and in the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_730/2024.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_7/2025, APL_322/2025, App_13352/2025), Judge-rapporteur Simonsson (Court of Appeal, Panel 2) granted Nicoventures Trading immediate access to five pleadings and exhibits in NJOY Netherlands' appeal against an order of the Paris Central Division of 5 November 2024…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 April 2025 (UPC_CoA_237/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal granted Nicoventures Trading, an opponent before the EPO, immediate access to the statement of appeal and the response to a request for correction filed by Juul Labs…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_519/2024, UPC_CFI_47/2025 and UPC_CFI_52/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential under Art.
Read the analysisBy order of 23 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_537/2024, ORD_13311/2025), Judge-rapporteur Schilling of the Hamburg Local Division confirmed as final the preliminary order of 18 March 2025 protecting under Rule 262A the sales and profit figures filed by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisBy an order of 22 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division classified as confidential the information on the work billed by Ortovox Sportartikel's lawyers (invoice numbers, hourly rates, hours) in the applications for the determination of costs it…
Read the analysisBy 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 analysisBy order of 10 April 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_12069/2025), Judge-rapporteur Postiglione (Milan Central Division) granted ALIUD PHARMA, a third party to the action for a declaration of non-infringement of EP 2 501 384 brought by Accord Healthcare against Novartis, access to the statement…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, ORD_5519/2025), Judge-rapporteur Tochtermann, presiding judge of the Mannheim Local Division, provisionally and partly granted the law firm AMPERSAND Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten access to the file in Panasonic Holdings' infringement action on EP 2 568 724…
Read the analysisBy order of 17 March 2025 (UPC_CFI_815/2024, ORD_13125/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), dealing with Edwards Lifesciences' application for a cost decision (Rule 151) against Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences in the dispute over EP 3 646…
Read the analysisBy 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 analysisBy order of 20 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_4166/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (Judge Zana) refused Bhagat Textile Engineers, applying as a member of the public (Rule 262.1(b)), access to the file of the counterclaim for revocation brought by…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 February 2025 (UPC_CFI_698/2024, ORD_68703/2024), the Milan Central Division (Judges Postiglione, presiding and rapporteur, Knijff and Werner) dismissed the request by STADAPHARM, a non-party, for access to the file in the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought…
Read the analysisBy 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 analysisConfidentiality orders issued at first instance and not challenged on appeal continue to have effect during the appeal proceedings, including after the close of the proceedings (paras.
Read the analysisBy 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…
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