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By an order of 9 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_491/2025, App_35786/2025), the Munich Local Division rejected the application for extension of time limits filed by ECOVACS Europe, second defendant in the infringement action brought by Papst Licensing on European patent EP 3 494 446.
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_495/2025, App_34320/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, granted the application of HMD Global Oy, defendant to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action on European patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 8 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_337/2025, App_36126/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Central Division rejected TCL Europe's request for a two-week extension, to 24 September 2025, of the time limit for its reply to the defence to revocation and its…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_629/2025, App_34566/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_202/2025, App_30486/2025), the Milan Local Division confirmed the settlement reached between Edwards Lifesciences and Sintec and Value Med in provisional measures proceedings based on European patent EP 3 646 825, and ordered only the redacted…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_551/2025, App_34568/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, after consulting the panel of the Hamburg Local Division, changed the language of the proceedings from German to English, the language of grant of European…
Read the analysisBy an order of 5 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024 and UPC_CFI_729/2024, App_34668/2025), the Mannheim Local Division rejected Keysight Technologies' application to stay Centripetal's infringement action on European patent EP 3 821 580, and the counterclaim for revocation, pending the outcome of the EPO…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_610/2025), the presiding judge of the Munich Local Division, acting for the judge-rapporteur, granted the request of Xiaomi Technology Germany, the fifth defendant in UERAN Technology's infringement action (EP 2 385 739), to set a…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_552/2025, ORD_36084/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Central Division declared inadmissible the request for a decision by default made by Gilead Sciences in its revocation action against the Academy of Military Medical Sciences' patent EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_247/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, claimant in the infringement action on European patent EP 3 567 731, to provide security for costs of EUR 100,000 in favour of MediaTek…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_801/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division dismissed Belparts' application to have its action for infringement of EP 3 812 870 against IMI Hydronic International and IMI Hydronic Engineering AB heard together with the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 3 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_449/2025, App_33210/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division granted Hewlett-Packard Development provisional measures against Andreas Rentmeister e.K., a German reseller of type 937 ink cartridges, on the basis of European patents EP 2 826 630 and EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_119/2025 and UPC_CFI_401/2025, ORD_35979/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the request of parties negotiating a settlement, stayed the Jinko companies' infringement action against the LONGi companies and two other defendants (EP 4…
Read the analysisBy an order of 2 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_380/2023), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division dismissed the requests for rectification filed by Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants against the decision on the merits of 21 July 2025 in favour of Edwards Lifesciences (EP…
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 September 2025 (UPC_CFI_848/2024 and UPC_CFI_612/2025), the standing judge of the Munich Local Division, with Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany's consent, extended to 5 September 2025 KNAPP Smart Solutions' time limits for the reply, the defence to the counterclaim…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_807/2024 and UPC_CFI_334/2025, App_28536/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division denied Wonderland Nurserygoods' application for leave to change its claim in its action for infringement by equivalence of EP 1 905 615 against Cybex…
Read the analysisBy an order of 28 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_500/2025, ORD_35704/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division refused Faro Technologies reimbursement of 60% of the court fees attributable to its application for provisional measures (EP 4 001 835), withdrawn on 26 August 2025…
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_453/2025, ORD_35458/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, with the parties' agreement, harmonised the time limits in Eyesmatch's infringement action against five Samsung companies (EP 2 936 439).
Read the analysisBy an order of 27 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_521/2024, ORD_35195/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, at Decathlon's request, disregarded the part of the rejoinder filed by the defendants OWIM, Lidl and Kaufland in the application to amend proceedings that addressed the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_559/2025, ORD_35509/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, on the joint application of Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development and the LONGi and Energy3000 companies, which are negotiating a settlement, stayed the infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_248/2025, ORD_33901/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Huawei Technologies, a claimant established in China, to provide MediaTek Germany with security for costs of EUR 150,000 within six weeks in the infringement action…
Read the analysisBy an order of 25 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_688/2025, ORD_35448/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Johansson) refused to allow MED-EL's statement of claim in its infringement action concerning EP 4 074 373 to be served on Zhejiang Nurotron Biotechnology through…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 22 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_459/2023, App_35225/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, with the agreement of all parties, stayed the proceedings on Inventronics' application for access to the file under Rule 262.1(b) in the case between Tridonic and CUPOWER Shenzhen…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_580/2025, App_35159/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed Tridonic's infringement action against Inventronics concerning EP 2 011 218 in view of ongoing settlement discussions.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024, ORD_35239/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman) rejected Black Sheep Retail Products' application to deposit two physical objects (exhibits BB38) in HL Display's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_386/2024 and UPC_CFI_610/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division dismissed the request by Black Sheep Retail Products, defendant to HL Display's infringement action (EP 2 432 351), to deposit three physical objects.
Read the analysisBy an order of 21 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_494/2025, ORD_34789/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division (Judge Schilling) rejected HMD Global's application for a one-month extension of the time limit for its statement of defence in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's infringement action concerning EP 2…
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_131/2025, ORD_35065/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Brussels Local Division (Judge Granata), on the application of OrthoApnea and Vivisol B, corrected a calculation error in the total of the costs decision of 25 July 2025.
Read the analysisBy an order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_452/2025, ORD_34904/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 30 September 2025 the time limit for the statement of defence of five ASUS group companies, defendants to Wilus Institute of Standards…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 19 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_666/2024 and UPC_CFI_199/2025, ORD_34921/2025), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (Judge Brinkman), with no objection from the Walt Disney group defendants, granted Adeia Guides' application of 5 August 2025, made because exhibits 8…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 14 August 2025, issued in the joined infringement action and counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 3 605 534 (UPC_CFI_135/2024 and UPC_CFI_477/2024, App_4256/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division allowed Dolby International to file a further written pleading on the FRAND…
Read the analysisBy order of 14 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_151/2024, App_44034/2024), Judge Schilling, judge rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, released to UEFA, Kinexon and Kinexon Sports & Media the EUR 56,000 security provided by Ballinno under Rule 158 RoP, ordered its transfer to Kinexon's…
Read the analysisBy 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…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 12 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_496/2025, ACT_26508/2025, App_34519/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the joint application of Headwater Research and the five defendant Samsung Electronics companies, replaced German with English, the language in which EP 3 110 072 was granted,…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_114/2025, ACT_7504/2025), Judge Pichlmaier, judge rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, ordered Syntorr, a Cypriot company and claimant in the action for infringement of EP 3 835 470, to provide security for costs of EUR…
Read the analysisBy an order of 11 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_358/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered Syntorr, claimant in an infringement action against three Arthrex companies (EP 2 670 898), to provide security for the defendants' costs of EUR 2,000,000 in total…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_66435/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) dismissed the AYLO defendants' application to fix the lawyers' fees incurred in responding to the appeal, eventually withdrawn, that DISH Technologies and Sling…
Read the analysisBy order of 5 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_807/2024 and UPC_CFI_334/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Schumacher as judge rapporteur, Judge Bessaud and technically qualified Judge Roselinger) decided, with the parties' consent, to hear both Wonderland Nurserygoods' infringement action against Cybex…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_550/2025, ACT_29036/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division, through its presiding judge and judge rapporteur, Judge Thomas, asked the President of the Court of First Instance, with the parties' consent, to add to the panel a technically qualified…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_162/2024, ACT_17365/2024, App_33935/2025), the judge rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) extended to 20 August 2025 the time allowed to NUC Electronics to comment on Hurom's request for a penalty payment, which alleges insufficient…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_829/2024, ACT_67479/2024), the judge rapporteur of the Munich Central Division (Judge Kupecz) refused UPM-Kymmene, claimant in the revocation action against International N&H Denmark concerning EP 2 611 800, a further exchange of written pleadings after the…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_123/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division fixed the costs recoverable by Samsung Bioepis NL from Alexion Pharmaceuticals for the provisional measures proceedings dismissed on 26 June 2024 (EP 3 167 888, Epysqli).
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_414/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal's request of 25 July 2025 under Rule 36 for leave to file a further written pleading in its infringement action against Keysight Technologies, Inc.
Read the analysisBy an order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_197/2025, App_33539/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division postponed until after the oral hearing the decision on the conditional request for a stay filed by Anker Innovations Technology and the other defendants in Powermat…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 August 2025 (UPC_CFI_99/2024 and UPC_CFI_392/2024, ACT_11910/2024 and CC_40010/2024), Judge Thomas, presiding judge and judge rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, found Ona Patents' account of its title to EP 2 263 098 B1, asserted against five Apple companies,…
Read the analysisBy 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.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division extended to 12 August 2025, for both parties, the time limit for comments on a third party's (Taylor Wessing) request for access under Rule 262.1(b)…
Read the analysisBy an order of 31 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_361/2023, App_30331/2025), the Paris Central Division (Judges Zhilova, Haedicke, judge-rapporteur, and Matter, technically qualified judge) allowed Toyota Motor Europe to withdraw its revocation action against Neo Wireless (EP 3 876 490) and closed the proceedings,…
Read the analysisBy an order of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_213/2025, App_33426/2025), the presiding judge of the Düsseldorf Local Division panel, acting as judge-rapporteur, attached a penalty payment of up to EUR 30,000 per day to the information obligation imposed on 10 July 2025 on…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 30 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_201/2023), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, presiding, Thom, judge-rapporteur, Agergaard and Hedberg, technically qualified judge), with the defendant's consent, allowed N.V.
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_761/2024, App_24515/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division dismissed Oerlikon Textile's application under Rule 353 RoP to rectify the costs decision of 9 May 2025 against Bhagat Textile Engineers (EP 2 145 848).
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_566/2024 and UPC_CFI_39/2025), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, at the parties' joint request (Rule 295(d) RoP), stayed Syngenta's infringement action against Sumi Agro and Sumi Agro Europe (EP 2 152 073) and the…
Read the analysisBy an order of 29 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_79/2025, App_31764/2025), the Mannheim Local Division (Judges Tochtermann, presiding, Böttcher, judge-rapporteur, and Rinkinen) dismissed the application by Discord Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 28 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_492/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, granted the request of the defendants Beijing Roborock Technology, Roborock Germany and Roborock International, sued for infringement of EP 3 030 943 by PAPST…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_733/2024 and UPC_CFI_255/2025), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judge Thom, for Presiding Judge Thomas, Judge Schumacher as judge-rapporteur, and Judge Agergaard) decided to hear both TRUMPF Laser- und Systemtechnik's infringement action against IPG Laser on EP 2…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), Judge Tochtermann, judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, rejected Centripetal's request for a penalty payment against Palo Alto Networks and for an order requiring it to report any deletion or change of technical documentation, following…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_850/2024), Judge Böttcher, judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division, confirmed his order of 20 June 2025 on the value in dispute in ZTE's infringement action against Samsung Electronics and five European subsidiaries on EP 3 905…
Read the analysisBy order of 24 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_381/2025), Presiding Judge Zigann of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, ruled on the request of Cilag GmbH International and Ethicon, in proceedings against RiVOLUTiON on EP 2 515 768, to be assisted at their…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_181/2025), Judge Schumacher, judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, extended to 15 September 2025 the time limits for the reply and the defence to the counterclaim for revocation of QIAGEN Sciences, which is suing bioMérieux and…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_63/2025, App_23201/2025), the Munich Local Division (Presiding Judge Zigann, Judge Pichlmaier as judge rapporteur, and Judge Schober) dismissed ALD Vacuum Technologies' application to revoke the order for preservation of evidence and inspection granted to Nanoval on…
Read the analysisBy order of 22 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_132/2025), the Paris Local Division (Presiding Judge Lignières as judge-rapporteur, Judges Gillet and Lopes, and technically qualified Judge Fulconis) joined TIRU's infringement actions against MAGUIN and against VALINEA ENERGIE, based on EP 3 178 578 (waste…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_79/2025 and UPC_CFI_605/2025, ORD_33008/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) rejected Malikie Innovations' request to align on 10 September 2025 its time periods for the defence to Discord's counterclaim for revocation and for an application…
Read the analysisBy decision of 18 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_8/2023, ORD_32871/2025), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division confirmed the settlement reached on 10 July 2025 between Edwards Lifesciences and Meril Lifesciences, Meril GmbH, SMIS International and Sormedica, ending the infringement action under EP 2 628 464 and…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 18 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_359/2023), the Mannheim Local Division dismissed FUJIFILM's infringement action against three Kodak companies in respect of the UK part of EP 3 476 616, which concerns a lithographic printing plate precursor.
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_351/2025, APP_30013/2025), the President of the Court of First Instance, Florence Butin, after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the application of POSITEC Germany, defendant in Husqvarna's infringement action under EP 3 978…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_750/2024, ORD_32720/2025), the judge rapporteur Böttcher (Mannheim Local Division) extended to 11 August 2025, over Fingon's objection, the time periods for Samsung Electronics' rejoinder in the infringement action under EP 2 839 403 and its reply…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_302/2024 and UPC_CFI_667/2024), Judge Zigann, presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, summoned Lenovo (Singapore) and the ASUSTek companies to a further interim hearing on FRAND, set for 21 July 2025, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_771/2024), the Milan Local Division confirmed the settlement concluded on 25 February 2025 between Pirelli Tyre and Kingtyre Deutschland in the action for infringement of EP 2 519 412, the action continuing against Tianjin Kingtyre Group.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_770/2024, App_26266/2025), the Milan Local Division (Judges Perrotti, Zana and Knijff) dismissed Sichuan Yuanxing Rubber's request for re-establishment of rights, made in order to challenge out of time the ex parte seizure of tyres at the…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 June 2025 (UPC_CFI_636/2025), made without hearing the defendant after referral back by the Court of Appeal, Judge Tochtermann (Mannheim Local Division) granted Centripetal a saisie targeting Palo Alto Networks' network security solution at its Munich branch office.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_292/2025, App_22463/2025), Florence Butin, President of the Court of First Instance, changed the language of InterDigital VC Holdings' infringement action against eleven Disney companies before the Mannheim Local Division from German to English, the language in…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 July 2025 (UPC_CFI_178/2024 and UPC_CFI_432/2024), the judge rapporteur Perrotti (Milan Local Division) set the value of Progress Maschinen & Automation's infringement action against AWM and Schnell at EUR 2,000,000, and the same for the revocation counterclaim, the parties…
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