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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 a procedural order of 30 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2660/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered service of the statement of claim for infringement of EP 3 574 526 on the representative of Lexar Europe B.V., which accepted it.
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 30 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1646/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division dismisses Rakuten’s application for Helios Streaming to provide EUR 200,000 as security for costs.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
Read the analysisIn an order of 29 October 2026 under Rule 353 RoP (UPC_CFI_1357/2025 and UPC_CFI_629/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, seized the same day by the defendants with Establishment Labs’ agreement, rectifies para.
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 analysisBy procedural order of 19 October 2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division confirms the oral hearing of 3 November 2026 in the dispute over EP 3 732 827, after the Court of Appeal finally upheld, on 16 October 2026, the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026, published in the infringement action (UPC_CFI_806/2025) and in the counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_185/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, Samuel Granata, closes the interim procedure in the dispute between Barco N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1209/2025, counterclaim for revocation UPC_CFI_731/2026), Matthias Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1a of the Munich Local Division acting as judge-rapporteur, closes the interim procedure in the action brought by Steindl Krantechnik Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CoA_145/2026), given without an oral hearing with the parties’ consent (Article 52(3) UPCA), the Court of Appeal dismissed Barco’s appeal against the order of the Brussels Local Division of 17 August 2026, which had refused…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_307/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Aesculap’s application to rectify its decision on the merits of 1 September 2026 concerning EP 2 892 442 B1.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 October 2026 (UPC_CoA_97/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Court of Appeal dismissed the application by Alpinestars S.p.A., Alpinestars Research S.p.A.
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 October 2026 following the interim conference (Rule 105.5 RoP), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division, in the dispute between Illumina, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 15 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_1901/2026 and UPC_CFI_3259/2026), the Paris Local Division, sitting as a full panel presided over by Camille Lignières, referred Viatris Santé’s counterclaim for revocation to the Paris Central Division, in the dispute concerning Merz’s patent EP…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 October 2026, issued in German, the Munich Local Division arranged service on Sercomm Italia SRL of two orders in its dispute with Huawei Technologies over EP 3 611 989 B1.
Read the analysisIn an order of 9 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_2434/2026), published on 22 October 2026, the panel of the Milan Local Division dismissed the application by Amazon Web Services, Inc., Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, AWS European Sovereign Cloud GmbH and Amazon Data Services…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_676/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants the request of the four Xiaomi defendants in AX Wireless, LLC's infringement action on EP 3 072 324 for a refund of EUR 4,900 overpaid on…
Read the analysisIn an order of 28 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_703/2025 and UPC_CFI_1757/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division answers the court expert’s request for clarification in the dispute between Prinoth and Xelom over EP 2 507 436 and…
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 analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_319/2024 and UPC_CFI_728/2024), presiding judge and judge-rapporteur Pierluigi Perrotti of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against…
Read the analysisIn an order of 21 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_318/2024 and UPC_CFI_730/2024), judge-rapporteur Alima Zana of the Milan Local Division sets the conduct of the hearing of 24 and 25 September 2026 in Ericsson’s action against ASUSTek and Arvato…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 September 2026 published on 29 October 2026 (UPC_CFI_766/2024), the Milan Local Division grants Cardo Systems’ application to rectify its decision by default of 10 July 2026 against Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology and Hong Kong Yiheng International Technology.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2026 (UPC_CFI_2437/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division rejected BMS Innovations' application to declare inadmissible, or to stay, the action for a declaration of non-infringement brought by six BYD companies in respect of EP 2 937…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the release to Topsoe of the experts' detailed description drawn up after the inspection and preservation order of 25 and 26 November 2025, executed at SYPOX's…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_2665/2026 and UPC_CFI_539/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division stayed Ericsson's applications against ASUSTek for re-establishment of rights (Rule 320 RoP) and for costs (Rule 150 RoP), pending the Court of Appeal's decision on the…
Read the analysisOn Micron’s application for protection of technical information on the Z01M chip, produced in support of a prior user right, the Local Division refuses an attorneys’ eyes only regime (paras.
Read the analysisIn an order of 13 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_256/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division designates as confidential, under Art. 58 UPCA and Rule 262.2 RoP, the passages of the cost-fixing submissions concerning hourly rates, billing and time spent by the parties'…
Read the analysisBy order of 13 August 2026, issued in German (UPC_CFI_256/2025), the presiding judge, acting as judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, set the value of the provisional measures proceedings UPC_CFI_486/2024 at EUR 1,000,000 and stayed the cost-fixing proceedings brought by Light Guide…
Read the analysisIn an order of 11 August 2026 under Rule 105.5 RoP following the interim conference (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division organises the damages proceedings brought by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 6 August 2026 (UPC_CFI_1569/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division fixes the costs recoverable by Niche Biomedical, Inc. (ANEUVO) from ONWARD Medical N.V.
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, App_57167/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants a lawyer, as a member of the public, access to the statement of claim and part of the exhibits in Dolby International's action against three…
Read the analysisBy an order lodged on 28 July 2026 and published on the register on 14 October 2026, the Milan Local Division stayed proceedings UPC_CFI_2297/2026 and UPC_CFI_2300/2026 between Pirelli Tyre and Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber, following a worldwide settlement reported by the parties.
Read the analysisIn an order of 24 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, App_11638/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants the firm Vereenigde Octrooibureaux, as a member of the public, limited access to the statement of claim in Dolby International's action against three Optoma companies…
Read the analysisIn an order of 23 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_7/2023, App_44641/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division grants a law firm, as a member of the public, access to the pleadings and evidence of the action for infringement of EP 3 375 337…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 July 2026 (UPC_CFI_1968/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division orders the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), proprietor of EP 3 854 403, to pay Gilead Sciences EUR 800,000 in recoverable costs within four weeks of…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 9 July 2026, given in cost proceedings UPC_CFI_1849/2026 and UPC_CFI_1861/2026, the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division orders Teleflex Life Sciences II to reimburse Speed Care Mineral EUR 211,000 (EUR 200,000 in representation costs, the applicable ceiling, and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1160/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division grants Edwards Lifesciences, in the damages proceedings brought against Meril after the infringement decision of 4 April 2025 (EP 3 669 828), a two-day extension, until 1…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_1230/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division orders EOFLOW to pay Insulet EUR 14,000 for the costs incurred in the application for leave to appeal (UPC_CFI_1167/2025) and in the appeal concerning a penalty payment…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 8 June 2026 (UPC_CFI_2046/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division sets at EUR 62,359.32 the costs that Gastroteam Abbe AB and Salvatore Marciuliano (Marciuliano Attrezzature) must reimburse, within thirty days, to Morello Forni Italia and Morello Forni…
Read the analysisBy decision of 12 May 2026 in the joined proceedings UPC_CFI_775/2025, UPC_CFI_776/2025 and UPC_CFI_777/2025, the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division permitted, after a settlement, the cross-withdrawals by Edwards Lifesciences and the Meril group of their applications for cost decisions following the decision on the…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 7 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_2265/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division assesses, under Rule 150 RoP, the costs owed by Barco to Yealink after the dismissal of the applications for provisional measures based on EP 3 732 827…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_336/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Hurom to withdraw its application for a costs decision against NUC Electronics Europe and WARMCOOK, after the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of 11 March…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_335/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division permitted Hurom to withdraw its application for a costs decision against NUC Electronics Co., after the Court of Appeal set aside the decision of 11 March 2025 and…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_885/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division sets aside the order for inspection and preservation of evidence it had granted on 22 September 2025 without hearing STEROS GPA Innovative, since OTEC Präzisionsfinish brought no action on the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1696/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division rules on SYPOX's request for review (Rule 197.3 RoP) and its request to recuse the experts, both directed at the order for inspection and preservation of evidence issued without hearing…
Read the analysisIn an order of 4 May 2026 (UPC_CFI_1167/2026), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division corrects a clerical mistake (Rule 353 RoP) in the name of one of Genentech and F.
Read the analysisIn an order of 30 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_840/2026), the Milan Local Division allows Guala Pack to have its statement of claim served on LD Packaging (Foshan), a Chinese company, at its stand at the Interpack trade fair in Düsseldorf from 7 to…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 10 April 2026 (UPC_CFI_480/2025), the Milan Central Division revokes in its entirety, for all UPC Contracting Member States, Flexicare's unitary patent EP 4 185 356 on a nasal cannula, in a revocation action brought by Fisher & Paykel…
Read the analysisBy an order of 18 March 2026, made in the infringement action on EP 3 107 487 (UPC_CFI_1357/2025) and the related counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_629/2026), the Brussels Local Division ordered Establishment Labs, a Costa Rican company, to provide security of EUR 600,000…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 February 2026, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_407/2025 and UPC_CFI_408/2025 (EP 3 401 335 B1), Judge Granata, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division, ordered the Registry to release to Genentech and F.
Read the analysisBy decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_658/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division fixed the costs Curio Bioscience must reimburse to 10x Genomics for the provisional measures proceedings and the main action on EP 2 697 391, following the decision of…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_515/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division held that publishing on the Court's website its provisional measures order of 19 December 2025, granted to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Read the analysisIn a decision of 2 February 2026 (UPC_CFI_657/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered 10x Genomics, Inc. to reimburse EUR 180,000 in costs to Curio Bioscience Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 19 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_834/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on Roborock (HK)'s request for review under Rule 197.3 RoP, revoked in full and with retroactive effect the ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence granted to Ecovacs Robotics…
Read the analysisIn an order of 12 December 2025, the Munich Local Division ordered ASUS Technology Licensing, a claimant seated in Taiwan, to provide EUR 200,000 security for costs within six weeks in its infringement action on EP 3 346 616 against Guangdong OPPO…
Read the analysisIn an order of 10 December 2025 made by Judge-rapporteur Schumacher after the interim conference of 4 December (Rule 105.5), in UPC_CFI_351/2024 and UPC_CFI_595/2024 between Canon and Katun, the Düsseldorf Local Division required English translations of all exhibits and a preliminary estimate…
Read the analysisIn a procedural order of 4 December 2025 (UPC_CFI_307/2025, EP 2 892 442 B1), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, set the oral hearing of Aesculap's action against Shanghai Bojin Medical Instrument and other defendants for 17…
Read the analysisIn an order of 27 November 2025, made in provisional measures proceedings brought by InterDigital against Amazon, the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division allowed the defendants' representatives to listen to the recording of the hearing of 14 November 2025 at the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 20 November 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's request for a further exchange of written pleadings against Katun and General Plastic Industrial (EP 3 686…
Read the analysisIn an order of 19 November 2025, made in proceedings UPC_CFI_87/2025 and UPC_CFI_488/2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed InterDigital VC Holdings to respond, by 20 November 2025, to the non-infringement and FRAND arguments raised by The Walt Disney Company…
Read the analysisBy an order of 7 November 2025 (UPC_CFI_1041/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division extended to 16 March 2026 the time limit for the defence, and any counterclaim for revocation, of the four Micron companies sued by Yangtze Memory Technologies for…
Read the analysisBy decision of 17 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_404/2025 and UPC_CFI_405/2025, EP 3 669 828), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences and Meril Italy to pay Edwards Lifesciences EUR 771,649.56 in costs within 20 days, in the…
Read the analysisIn an order of 16 October 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring Hewlett-Packard's application for provisional measures to the attention of the Chinese company Zhuhai ouguan Electronic Technology constitute good service under Rule 275.2, effective…
Read the analysisIn an order of 15 October 2025, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Leap Tools to serve its statement of claim of 13 June 2025 on the second defendant, Wizart LLC, a Delaware company that could not be found at…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 15 October 2025, given in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_115/2024 and UPC_CFI_377/2024, the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed Hartmann Packaging's infringement action against two Omni-Pac companies and partly allowed their counterclaim for revocation of EP 2 755 901, which concerns a…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 October 2025, given in proceedings UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024 (patent EP 3 605 534), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the application of Beko Germany and Arçelik and after hearing Dolby International, cancelled the oral hearing set for 16…
Read the analysisIn an order of 14 October 2025, given in joined proceedings UPC_CFI_100/2024 and UPC_CFI_411/2024, the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the unsolicited submission filed by Ona Patents on 1 September 2025 against Google Ireland and Google Commerce (patent EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 2 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_496/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, of its own motion and under Rule 353, rectified paragraph 6 of the operative part of its decision of 29 September 2025, which contained a clerical error and a calculation…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), the Mannheim Local Division, on Palo Alto Networks' request for review under Rule 197.3, revoked the order to preserve evidence granted without hearing the defendant on 3 June 2025 in favour of Centripetal (EP…
Read the analysisIn an order of 26 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_315/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division summoned Labrador Diagnostics and the six bioMérieux defendants under Rule 108 to the oral hearing of the infringement action on EP 3 756 767, set for 27…
Read the analysisIn a decision of 25 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_323/2025), issued in French, the Paris Central Division confirmed under Rule 365 the settlement concluded on 22 September 2025 between Scantrust and Advanced Track And Trace, ending the revocation action against EP 2 364 485…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 18 September 2025, the Düsseldorf Local Division, with the parties' consent, stayed the infringement actions and revocation counterclaims between Atlas Global and TP-LINK CORPORATION PTE.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, App_36172/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered reimbursement to the Apple companies of 40% of the court fees paid for their revocation counterclaim against Ona Patents and Ekahau (EP 2 263 098), namely…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_297/2025 and UPC_CFI_651/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division decided, with the parties' consent, to hear together InterDigital CE Patent Holdings' infringement action against eleven Disney group companies (EP 2 080 349) and the revocation counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 16 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025, App_33294/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division partly granted MediaTek Germany's request for production of documents (Rule 190) in Huawei's infringement action (EP 3 567 731).
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 15 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, App_36556/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Dolby International to engage, at its own cost, a simultaneous interpreter from German into English for the hearing of 16 October 2025…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on the single pleading filed on 25 August 2025 by TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik in the revocation counterclaim and the amendment proceedings, in its dispute with…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_481/2025, App_34862/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance granted HMD Global's application and changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language in which EP 3 667 981 was granted,…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 12 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division refused to admit the new auxiliary requests to amend EP 2 624 031 filed late by TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik (Rule 30.2), together with the further pleading…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, App_35855/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered reimbursement to Ona Patents of 40% of the court fees paid for its infringement action against the Apple companies (EP 2 263 098), namely EUR 20,000,…
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…
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