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In an order of 2 November 2026 (UPC_CoA_176/2026 and UPC_CoA_177/2026), the Court of Appeal dismisses Netflix’s application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the decision of the Munich Local Division of 15 September 2026, which found it liable for indirect infringement…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 November 2026 (UPC_CoA_176/2026 and UPC_CoA_177/2026), the Court of Appeal dismisses Netflix’s application for suspensive effect of its appeal against the decision of the Munich Local Division of 15 September 2026, which found it liable for indirect infringement…
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 a decision of 23 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_706/2025), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed SK nexilis’ action against three Volta Energy Solutions companies for infringement of EP 3 316 363, which concerns an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_47/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_68/2025), Panel 2 of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the action brought by CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy a decision of 22 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_52/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_67/2025), Panel 2 of the Düsseldorf Local Division dismisses the action brought by CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisThis entry corresponds to appeal UPC_CoA_602/2025, brought by Agfa and decided by the Court of Appeal’s decision of 21 October 2026 on EP 3 388 490, given in ten joined appeals.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 20 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_481/2025 and UPC_CFI_1358/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, hearing Huawei’s action for infringement of EP 3 667 981 against HMD Global and a counterclaim for revocation, held that the asserted claims were not entitled to the…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisIn this CAR-T life sciences infringement action, the Brussels Local Division dismissed the defendants' Rule 190 RoP applications for production of evidence directed at documents of the NIH (laboratory notebooks, invention reports, grant files, notice records), rejected the NIH's request to be…
Read the analysisThe Munich local division revokes the European part of Maxell’s patent for lack of novelty and dismisses the infringement action. The decision confirms that an auxiliary request drawn from the description does not escape an obviousness objection where it merely adds a…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 September 2026, the Mannheim Local Division largely upheld Honeywell Control Systems' infringement action on EP 2 563 695 B1 (telescopic belt conveyor) and dismissed the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division stayed Avago Technologies International Sales' infringement action against seven Hyundai companies, together with the counterclaim for revocation, until the EPO's final decision on the appeal against the revocation of…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division granted the parties' joint request to amend the timetable for the written procedure (EP 3 841 735).
Read the analysisBy order of 16 September 2026, issued in Dutch, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division ordered In(k)control, proprietor of EP 3 841 735, to provide security for costs of EUR 75,000 in favour of Esko-Graphics and Esko Software, the defendants to…
Read the analysisBy decision of 15 September 2026, given in the infringement action UPC_CFI_465/2025 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1121/2025, the Munich Local Division held the Netflix companies' counterclaim unfounded and DivX's infringement action well founded (paragraph 71).
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 analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Verifone GmbH, Adyen N.V. and other Verifone companies on EP 3 397 009 following a settlement, and declares the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its action for infringement of EP 4 277 422 against the Verifone companies and Adyen (UPC_CFI_661/2026) following a settlement.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
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 analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement action on EP 2 506 479 (UPC_CFI_1796/2026) following a settlement with the Verifone companies which also covers the claims against…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 September 2026, the Paris Central Division permitted Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson to withdraw its infringement actions (UPC_CFI_1571/2025 and UPC_CFI_710/2026, EP 3 672 085 and EP 3 659 314) following a settlement with Shenzhen Transsion, and closed both proceedings.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5), filed in the infringement action file, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division set the value of Barco v Yealink at EUR 1 million for the infringement action and…
Read the analysisThe Mannheim Local Division allows Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and eight other defendants on EP 4 277 422, following a settlement with Transsion.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2434/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division aligned the deadlines for the statements of defence and counterclaims for revocation of the four Amazon Web Services companies sued by NIXU FL IP Protection.
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_11/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division released the security for costs of EUR 150,000 (EUR 75,000 per appeal) provided by Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump on the order of the Court of Appeal, in its dispute with…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2280/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed the request by Influx Technologies USA, Influx Technologies Limited and two further defendants for security for costs of EUR 112,000 against IAGON, a company based in the…
Read the analysisThe Düsseldorf Local Division classifies as confidential, under Rule 262A RoP, the information to be provided under sections III.2 and III.3 of the decision given the same day in UPC_CFI_297/2025 (EP 2 080 349).
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_307/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division confirmed under Rule 365.1 RoP the settlement reached by Aesculap AG with Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and Shanghai Bojin Electric Instrument & Device in the infringement action on EP 2 892…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1938/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the preliminary objection of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. and Dentsply Sirona Deutschland, defendants to iCAT Corporation's infringement action on EP 1 808 129.
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 analysisBy 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 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 analysisIn a decision on the merits of 25 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_56/2025 and UPC_CFI_864/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the infringement action on EP 3 402 420 (a dental rotary osteotome with helical flutes) brought by Versah LLC, an exclusive sub-licensee, against…
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 24 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_757/2024) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_539/2025) concerning EP 2 819 131, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division dismissed ASUSTek's confidentiality request in Ericsson v ASUSTek.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 August 2026 issued jointly in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1733/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_1537/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the withdrawal of both actions between Malikie Innovations Limited and Xiaomi Corporation and eight…
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_495/2025 and UPC_CFI_1131/2025), the Hamburg Local Division upheld Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action against HMD Global based on EP 2 609 590, which concerns the decoding of audio signals containing transients, maintained the patent as worded in Auxiliary…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_466/2025 and UPC_CFI_869/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Dai Nippon Printing's infringement action on EP 3 805 415 against Zapp AG and Zapp Precision Metals, allowed the claimant to engage, at its own cost, interpreters from…
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 a decision of 17 August 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_492/2025 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_1309/2025, the Munich Local Division dismisses the Roborock companies' preliminary objection and then PAPST LICENSING's infringement action based on EP 3 030 943 (a method for…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 August 2026 issued in the infringement action UPC_CFI_86/2025 (EP 2 465 265), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
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 17 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_996/2025, UPC_CFI_737/2026 and UPC_CFI_742/2026, EP 3 003 087), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division provisionally admits Boa Technologies Inc.'s auxiliary requests 1bis to 12bis and defers its application under Rule 30.2 RoP to the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 17 August 2026 issued in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026) concerning EP 3 732 827, the Brussels Local Division refused Barco NV's application to introduce a sixth auxiliary request against Yealink.
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 August 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division rules, in the infringement action on EP 3 107 487 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), on the defendants’ Rule 9 objection to Establishment Labs S.A.’s…
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_2082/2026), the President of the Court of First Instance grants the application of Google LLC and Google Germany GmbH and changes the language of the infringement proceedings brought by BF exaQC AG and ParTec AG…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_452/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_1152/2025 and UPC_CFI_752/2026, EP 3 849 157), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits the withdrawal by Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology and the ASUS companies under Rule 265 RoP and…
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 analysisIn a decision of 29 July 2026, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_515/2026 and counterclaim UPC_CFI_1797/2026 (EP 1 955 151), the panel of the Munich Local Division rejects CA, Inc.'s application for review (Rule 333.1 RoP) of the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order of 22…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 5 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_181/2025, counterclaims UPC_CFI_497/2025 and UPC_CFI_516/2025, EP 2 726 883), the Düsseldorf Local Division, following a settlement, allows the withdrawals by QIAGEN Sciences, LLC and by bioMérieux S.A.
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisIn a decision of 31 July 2026, published on 3 November 2026 (UPC_CFI_565/2025 and UPC_CFI_841/2025), the Mannheim Local Division largely upholds Robert Bosch’s action against OWIM, maker of the Parkside brand, and three companies of the Lidl group.
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_2216/2025 and UPC_CFI_1829/2026), the Milan Local Division dismisses the application for security for costs filed by Kaltek s.r.l.
Read the analysisBy 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 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 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 analysisBy 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 analysisIn 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 analysisBy decision of 29 July 2026, the Lisbon Local Division confirmed, at Ericsson's sole request, the costs agreement reached with ASUSTek in the infringement action concerning EP 2 819 131, and ordered ASUSTek to pay EUR 150,000.
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 July 2026 made of the court's own motion (UPC_CFI_377/2025 and UPC_CFI_702/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division corrects a clerical mistake in his order of 22 July 2026, issued after the interim conference, in the dispute…
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 27 July 2026, issued in cases UPC_CFI_1923/2025 and UPC_CFI_1062/2026, the Düsseldorf Local Division stayed with immediate effect Dolby International's infringement action against Beko Germany and Arçelik (EP 3 079 153), together with the counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 July 2026, given in the joined cases UPC_CFI_87/2025 and UPC_CFI_488/2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division held that eleven Disney group companies infringe, through the Disney+ service, claims 5 and 17 of InterDigital VC Holdings’ EP 2 449 782…
Read the analysisIn an order of 22 July 2026 issued after the interim conference of 9 July 2026 (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division organises the next steps in Primetals Technologies Austria's infringement action against Danieli & C.
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_209/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring LiNA Medical's statement of claim to the attention of Defendants 1 and 2, domiciled in China, constitute good service…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisBy 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 analysisIn a procedural order of 16 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_701/2025, EP 3 548 898), the Düsseldorf Local Division, at BAG Diagnostics' request and with no objection from Imusyn, classified as confidential the settlement reached between the parties in the preliminary injunction proceedings UPC_CFI_550/2025…
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_770/2024 and UPC_CFI_556/2025), the Milan Local Division, at Pirelli Tyre's request and with no observations from Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber, rectified its decision of 26 May 2026 concerning EP 3 519 207.
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisBy order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_998/2025, UPC_CFI_738/2026 and UPC_CFI_743/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division regularised Boa Technologies' pleadings (reply, application to amend EP 3 777 595 and defence to the counterclaim) filed on 4 May 2026 without an electronic…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_672/2026 and UPC_CFI_2175/2026, EP 1 934 794), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the confidentiality request filed by Deutsche Telekom and two group companies with their statement of defence, in the action brought by…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 15 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_996/2025, together with files UPC_CFI_737/2026 and UPC_CFI_742/2026, EP 3 003 087), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division regularised the reply, application to amend the patent and defence to the counterclaim for revocation that…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 14 July 2026, the Lisbon Local Division allowed Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co. Ltd. to withdraw its infringement action on EP 4 123 910 (UPC_CFI_850/2026), before any statement of defence and with the Ericsson companies' consent, and declared the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1902/2025), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division aligns the time limits for the defence of the two defendants to Cardo Systems' infringement action: Shenzhen Ziwu Chuangxin Technology, served on 23 April…
Read the analysisIn a decision by default of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_766/2024), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, presiding, Zana, rapporteur, and Granata) holds that Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology and Hong Kong Yiheng International Technology, which did not appear, directly infringe CARDO Systems' unitary…
Read the analysisFollowing an early interim hearing, the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division set, by order of 8 July 2026 (Rule 105.5), the timetable for Huawei Technologies Co.
Read the analysisIn an order of 8 July 2026, given in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_2051/2025 (infringement action) and UPC_CFI_1653/2026 (counterclaim for revocation), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division stays, at the parties' joint request and under Rule 295(d), the dispute between the Electronics and…
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