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In an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1902/2025), the Milan Local Division dismisses Cardo Systems' application for an alternative method of service (Rule 275 RoP) of its statement of claim on Shenzhen Ziwu Chuangxin Technology and Resosport, based in mainland China and…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 27 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_685/2024 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_157/2025, the Hamburg Local Division holds that Speed Care Mineral's counterclaim succeeds and that Teleflex Life Sciences II's action against the SpeedM haemostatic dressing must…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_871/2026), the President of the Court of First Instance dismisses the application by Esko-Software and Esko-Graphics to change the language of the infringement action brought against them by In(k)control before the Brussels Local Division from…
Read the analysisIn a decision pronounced on 23 April 2026 in the infringement action UPC_CFI_559/2024 and the counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_106/2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division holds that the counterclaim is unfounded and that Quantificare's action against Canfield Scientific and others, directed at the "Vectra…
Read the analysisBy order of 19 May 2026, Panel 2 of the Munich Local Division corrects, on the ground of clerical error, its order of 23 April 2026 in the infringement action brought by Advanced Standard Communication LLC against XIAOMI Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division stayed, at MFCI's request and with the express consent of all other parties, the infringement action brought by 3V Sigma and 3V Chimica Porto Marghera against A.G.A., A.C.E.F.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 21 April 2026, the Milan Local Division ruled on Dainese's infringement action against Alpinestars S.p.A., Alpinestars Research and Motocard Bike, and on the counterclaims for revocation, concerning EP 4 072 364 (an inflatable protective device of the airbag…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisIn a decision on the merits delivered on 16 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_779/2024), in German, the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Brita's indirect infringement action against Wessper, a Polish maker of 'AquaMax' filter cartridges for Brita's 'PerfectFit' jugs, under EP 1 748 830…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 April 2026, issued in Italian in proceedings UPC_CFI_703/2025 and UPC_CFI_1757/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division grants Prinoth a thirty-day extension, to 27 May 2026, of the time limit for its next written pleading in its…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 April 2026 in the joined infringement action (UPC_CFI_819/2024) and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_414/2025), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Corning's EP 3 296 274 B1, concerning a downdraw process for producing alkali-free glass sheets for LCD substrates.
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 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 analysisBy an order of 14 April 2026 in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division orders the proprietor, Establishment Labs, to produce in part evidence on its own earlier 'Motiva SilkSurface' breast implant, which the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_858/2025), the Lisbon Local Division finds under Rule 360 that Boehringer Ingelheim's main action against Zentiva Portugal, brought after provisional measures were granted on appeal against a generic nintedanib product, has become devoid of purpose…
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 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 analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division grants the request of the four Ericsson defendants to align their time limits in the infringement action brought by Shenzhen Transsion Holdings on EP 4 123 910 (UPC_CFI_850/2026).
Read the analysisBy order of 7 April 2026, the President of the Court of First Instance grants the application of Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and Orope Germany, defendants in the infringement action brought by Koninklijke KPN on EP 3 349 412 before the Düsseldorf…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_642/2025), the full panel of the Munich Local Division rejects ScanBelt's second application to postpone the oral hearing set for 8 December 2026 in Laitram's infringement action (EP 3 251 983), and refuses leave to…
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 analysisIn an order of 2 April 2026, issued in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_714/2024 and UPC_CFI_155/2025, the Munich Local Division refuses to stay the case pending the opposition against EP 3 685 783, even though the EPO Opposition Division revoked the patent after…
Read the analysisIn an order of 1 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_1920/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division refuses to dismiss at the outset, under Rule 361 RoP, Illumina's infringement action against Element Biosciences (EP 3 714 978), whose Statement of claim had omitted the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 31 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division sets 11 June 2026 as the single deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation in Nixu FL IP Protection's…
Read the analysisBy decision of 27 March 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permits the withdrawal, agreed by both sides before the close of the written procedure, of Nokia Technologies’ infringement action on EP 4 250 732 against VIMN Germany and eight…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 25 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2107/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH to withdraw their infringement action against A.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 15 June 2026, for all defendants, the Rule 23 RoP time limit for filing the statement of defence in the infringement action brought by 3V Sigma…
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2052/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division sets 15 June 2026 as the Rule 23 RoP deadline for all three defendants to file their Statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_1049/2025), the Hamburg Local Division orders a refund to BTL Medizintechnik of 60% of the court fees for its infringement action against Lexter (EP 4 426 414), the withdrawal of which had been permitted on…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_649/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permits, with the defendant's consent, the withdrawal of Versah's infringement action against Argimiro Antonio Hernandez Suarez (EP 2 919 672), declares the proceedings closed, makes no costs decision following a…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisBy an order of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_770/2024 and UPC_CFI_556/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, after consulting the panel, revisited the adversarial examination of the seized tyre samples planned for the oral hearing: the tyres will be examined without being…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_717/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, acting through the judge-rapporteur, permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action on EP 3 057 321 against Hisense Gorenje Germany and five other companies, which consented, and declared the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_519/2024, with counterclaim UPC_CFI_64/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that ALPINA Coffee Systems infringes claim 2 of CUP&CINO's EP 3 398 487 (producing milk froth at adjustable temperature) with the 'ALPINA Latte Perfetto Duo' frother,…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 March 2026, given in German in UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division upholds Dolby International AB's EP 3 605 534, presented as essential to the Opus audio codec, and finds it infringed by the Grundig smart…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik's infringement action against IPG Laser concerning the 'YLS-AMB' fibre lasers, and on the counterclaim for revocation of claims 1 to 3 of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_2216/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division extended to 25 May 2026 Kaltek's time limit for lodging its statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation, in Biopsafe's action based on three patents.
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 March 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_64/2024 and UPC_CFI_450/2024, the Munich Local Division dismissed both Network System Technologies' infringement action against three Qualcomm companies, based on EP 1 875 683 concerning an integrated circuit with an on-chip communication…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division refused Hologic's request under Rule 36 RoP to file, by 13 March 2026, brief formal comments on Siemens Healthineers' submissions dated 24 September 2025 and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 6 March 2026 (UPC_CFI_141/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed PR Medical's preliminary objection seeking to have KeyMed's infringement action (EP 2 575 590, 'Detecto.' accessory for diagnostic devices) conducted in Italian rather than English.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 February 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division invited SZ DJI Technology, first defendant in Irdeto's infringement action based on EP 2 831 787 (UPC_CFI_344/2025), to pay the fee for its counterclaim for revocation within fourteen…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 24 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_735/2024) and the joined counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_224/2025), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on TRUMPF Laser UK's EP 2 951 625 B1, which concerns a fibre optic laser combiner, asserted…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 February 2026, given in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_26/2025 and UPC_CFI_375/2025), the Vienna Local Division dismissed both Messerle's action and Sabert Corporation Europe's counterclaim concerning EP 3 705 415 B1, which relates to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 February 2026, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_541/2025 and UPC_CFI_1313/2025 concerning EP 3 859 566, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Wizart's request that Leap Tools, a Canadian company with no presence in the UPC territory, provide EUR 300,000 as…
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 analysisBy 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 analysisIn an order of 13 February 2026, made in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_770/2024) and the revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_556/2025) between Pirelli Tyre s.p.a.
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division upholds the infringement action brought by Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Belkin International, Inc., Belkin B.V.
Read the analysisIn a decision on the merits of 11 February 2026, given in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_351/2024) and the joined revocation counterclaim (UPC_CFI_595/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division held Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's EP 3 686 683, on a developer replenishing container, valid and infringed…
Read the analysisIn 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 analysisBy a decision of 28 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_315/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Labrador Diagnostics' infringement action against six bioMérieux group companies, based on unitary patent EP 3 756 767 on modular point-of-care devices and directed at the VIDAS 3 instrument and…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 January 2026 issued after the interim conference (UPC_CFI_727/2024 and UPC_CFI_493/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division set the framework for the oral hearing in Agathon v Intercom and KNARR Vertriebs.
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1064/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of Nordmeccanica, defendant to Bobst Manchester's infringement action before the Munich Local Division (EP 3 067 437, vacuum coating method), and changed the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_2045/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted the request of six Amazon companies, defendants to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings' infringement action before the Mannheim Local Division (EP 2 803 191, image coding),…
Read the analysisBy an order of 20 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_1506/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance changed the language of Nagravision's infringement action against three Pinterest companies before the Munich Local Division from German to English, the language of EP 3 965…
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 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 analysisBy a decision of 15 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_100/2024 and the joined counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_411/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed both claims in the dispute between Ona Patents and Google Ireland and Google Commerce over EP 2 263 098,…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 13 January 2026 in infringement action UPC_CFI_628/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_125/2025, the Munich Local Division dismissed Emboline's action against AorticLab based on EP 2 129 425 (embolic protection device), directed at the "FLOWer" device.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 January 2026 (UPC_CFI_377/2025 and UPC_CFI_702/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division rejected Primetals Technologies Austria's request under Art.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 30 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_648/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 3258692, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Canon Kabushiki Kaisha's request for simultaneous interpretation from English into Japanese at the oral hearing in its action…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_501/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 057 321 brought by NEC against Shenzhen Transsion and seven other defendants, following a settlement reached before the…
Read the analysisIn ZTE Corporation’s action for infringement of EP 3 905 730 against six Samsung group companies (UPC_CFI_850/2024), coupled with a FRAND counterclaim by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_499/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted NEC Corporation to withdraw its infringement action against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and seven other defendants, based on EP 2 645 714, and declared the proceedings closed.
Read the analysisBy order of 23 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_683/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of the infringement action on EP 3 471 419 brought by Huawei Technologies against Shenzhen Transsion and five other defendants, following a settlement reached before…
Read the analysisSeised by Valeo Systèmes d’Essuyage of an action for infringement of EP 2 671 766 against six Bosch group companies (UPC_CFI_809/2025), the Paris Central Division upholds the preliminary objection of four of them, which are established in Contracting Member States.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_660/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_134/2025, the Mannheim Local Division revoked in full, for France and Germany, Centripetal's patent EP 3 652 914 on accelerating cyberanalysis workflows, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_437/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_681/2024, the Munich Local Division revoked GXD-Bio's patent EP 3 346 403 for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, dismissed the application to…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 December 2025, made in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_494/2025 and UPC_CFI_495/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division ruled on HMD Global's request for production of licences in support of its FRAND defence, in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's actions based on…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 18 December 2025, given in infringement action UPC_CFI_716/2024 and counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_205/2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed the counterclaim by Bekaert Combustion Technology and NV Bekaert against Polidoro's patent EP 2 037 175 (premixed burner, especially for…
Read the analysisThe Munich Local Division revokes Sanofi’s European patent EP 2 493 466 in its entirety. The patent covers cabazitaxel in combination with prednisone or prednisolone for treating metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer previously treated with a docetaxel-based regimen.
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division, acting on delegation from the panel, declared that the steps taken to serve Cardo Systems' statement of claim (EP 4 240 194) on Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology amount…
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 a decision of 5 December 2025, the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Keysight Technologies Deutschland (UPC_CFI_414/2024) based on EP 3 821 580 B1 on network protection.
Read the analysisBy order of 5 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Centripetal's request to reopen the oral hearing in its infringement action on EP 3 821 580 against Keysight Technologies, together with its auxiliary request for an expert to examine the…
Read the analysisThe Brussels Local Division closes the proceedings on Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenged its territorial competence (Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA) in BARCO’s infringement action on EP 3 732 827 (UPC_CFI_806/2025).
Read the analysisIn a decision of 28 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_425/2024 and UPC_CFI_751/2024, the Munich Local Division held EP 2 787 541 (solar cell with a tunnelling layer, TOPCon technology) valid and infringed by the Chint/Astronergy group's ASTRO N modules in Germany,…
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 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 analysisBy order of 26 November 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division stays Yealink’s preliminary objection, which challenges the division’s territorial competence under Art.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 19 November 2025, given in Italian, the Milan Local Division held by default that Gastroteam Abbe and the sole trader Marciuliano Attrezzature infringe EP 3 691 454, Morello Forni's unitary patent for a method and machine for shaping…
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