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By an order of 17 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_252/2023, ACT_551180/2023), the Munich Central Division rejected NanoString Technologies Europe Limited's request to release the EUR 300,000 security for costs it had provided in its action for revocation of EP 2 794 928 against President…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_201/2024, ORD_65555/2024), the presiding judge of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, acting as judge-rapporteur, dismissed Syngenta Limited's application to revoke order ORD 47657/2024 made in favour of Sumi Agro Limited and Sumi Agro…
Read the analysisBy an order of 12 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024), the Paris Central Division refused Microsoft Corporation leave to appeal the order of 26 November 2024 that had allowed Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy to amend its claim (EP 2 671…
Read the analysisBy a decision of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023), the Paris Local Division revoked in its entirety DexCom, Inc.'s EP 3 831 282, on remote monitoring of analyte measurements, on the counterclaim of fourteen Abbott group companies, and accordingly dismissed the infringement…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2023, ACT_582093/2023), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division, reconsidering the matter after remittal by the Court of Appeal, dismissed the request by Meril Life Sciences Pvt Limited and five other defendants to stay Edwards Lifesciences Corporation's…
Read the analysisBy an order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_509/2023, ACT_597615/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division held that the steps already taken to bring air up group GmbH's application for provisional measures (EP 3 897 305) to the attention of Guangzhou Aiyun…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_508/2023, ACT_597609/2023, App_64018/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division treated as good service the steps taken to serve air up group's application for provisional measures on Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology, a Chinese company, where transmission…
Read the analysisBy order of 3 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_140/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division ordered Curio Bioscience, the defendant in 10x Genomics' infringement action based on EP 2 697 391, to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour of the claimant.
Read the analysisBy procedural order dated 27 November 2024 in its heading (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_63173/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (A.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_437/2024, ACT_43382/2024, ORD_59602/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß), in GXD-Bio Corporation's infringement action on EP 3 346 403 against Myriad International GmbH and eight other defendants, ordered the claimant to provide security…
Read the analysisBy order of 26 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_62739/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel presided over by P. Catallozzi) granted Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 671 173 against Microsoft, leave to reduce its…
Read the analysisBy procedural order of 25 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_240/2023, ACT_549550/2023, ORD_62633/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Milan Local Division (A.
Read the analysisBy order of 25 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_62696/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières), in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282 against Abbott Logistics B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 21 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_550/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (T. Pichlmaier), in Collomix's infringement action against Lidl Digital Deutschland, Lidl Dienstleistung and Delta-Sport Handelskontor, ordered the claimant to lodge with the Court a sample of the "PARKSIDE®…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, App_59991/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Judges Thomas, rapporteur, Thom and Bessaud, and technically qualified judge Sanchini) dismissed the application for rectification filed by Magna PT B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_499/2023, App_60996/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division extended to 11 December 2024, over the objection of Abbott Laboratories and the other defendants, DexCom's time limits for its Rejoinder to the counterclaim for revocation of…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, App_59992/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the application for rectification filed by Magna PT B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 18 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_555/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in Malikie Innovations' infringement action against Nintendo based on EP 2 579 551, replaced the designation "Nintendo of Europe AG" with "Nintendo of Europe SE", which had succeeded…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_15/2023, ACT_459987/2023), the Munich Local Division rejected the requests of Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences, defendants to Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 3 646 825, for the Division to ask the European Commission about…
Read the analysisBy order of 15 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_515/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division ordered the reimbursement to Koninklijke Philips of 60% of the court fees, namely EUR 6,600 out of EUR 11,000, after it withdrew its ex parte application for provisional…
Read the analysisBy order of 12 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division, in Headwater Research's infringement action against Samsung Electronics based on EP 2 391 947, ordered Qualcomm, a third party, to produce within seven days an electronic copy of…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_16/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division, in Ortovox's infringement action against Mammut Sports Group AG and Mammut Sports Group GmbH based on EP 3 466 498, joined with a counterclaim for revocation, refused Ortovox's…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_355/2023, App_54506/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (R. Thomas) refused FUJIFILM, claimant in the infringement action on EP 3 594 009 against three Kodak companies, leave to file a further written pleading in reply…
Read the analysisBy order of 25 October 2024 (ORD_55012/2024), the Brussels Local Division (S. Granata, presiding and rapporteur, A.
Read the analysisBy decision of 24 October 2024, the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 22 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_525/2024, App_55164/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), in Visibly's infringement action on EP 3 918 974 before the Hamburg Local Division against Easee B.V., Easee Holding B.V.
Read the analysisBy order of 24 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_427/2024, App_52964/2024, ORD_53290/2024), the presiding judge of the Paris Central Division (F. Butin), sitting alone, dismissed Qualcomm's application for reimbursement of court fees made after the closure of its action against an EPO decision concerning EP…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023, App_46519/2024, ORD_47065/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Judge Böttcher) refused the application by DISH Technologies and Sling TV for the AYLO group companies and two other defendants to produce the source code…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 October 2024 (ORD_47058/2024, UPC_CFI_471/2023, ACT_594191/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division rejected the application of DISH Technologies and Sling TV, which are suing several Aylo companies for infringement of EP 2 479 680, for the defendants operating…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, ACT_567009/2023, App_44953/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2024, ACT_27358/2024, ORD_47273/2024), the Paris Central Division (F. Thomas, presiding, M.
Read the analysisBy order of 14 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_327/2024, ACT_36388/2024, ORD_44108/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) partly granted the request of Winnow Solutions, proprietor of EP 3 198 245 on monitoring food waste, for Orbisk to produce evidence on its…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_395/2023, ACT_583778/2023, ORD_53788/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) dismissed the application by the Abbott companies, defendants in DexCom's infringement action on EP 3 831 282, to amend their case to take account…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_292/2023, App_3393/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Pichlmaier) fixed at EUR 200,000 the first-instance costs that SES-imagotag must reimburse to the four Hanshow companies following the dismissal of its application for provisional measures.
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_300/2023, CC_597425/2023), the Munich Local Division (panel 2, presided by U. Voß) drew the consequences of the final revocation of EP 3 225 320 B1 by the EPO Board of Appeal on 4 July 2024 (T…
Read the analysisBy order of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_512/2024, ACT_50223/2024, App_54390/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division (Dr Thom) rejected CAN Srl Airxcel Europe's requests to extend to 30 October 2024 the time limit for a Preliminary Objection and to 30 December 2024…
Read the analysisBy decision of 11 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_193/2024, ACT_22922/2024), the Munich Local Division (panel 2: U. Voß, presiding judge and rapporteur, D.
Read the analysisBy order of 10 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_373/2023, ACT_580849/2023, App_55249/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, presiding, Dr Thom, Kupecz) dismissed Aarke's request to adjourn the oral hearing in SodaStream Industries' infringement action on EP 1793917 pending the Court of Appeal's order on the…
Read the analysisBy order of 8 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, ORD_55287/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi) rejected Edwards Lifesciences' request to align the time limit for its rejoinder to 25 October 2024 in the revocation action on EP 4 151…
Read the analysisBy preliminary order of 7 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_430/2023, ACT_588346/2023, ORD_55063/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (K. Härmand, panel presided by S.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023, ORD_54526/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, U.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (ORD_46842/2024, registered under ACT_595922/2023, although the operative part refers to proceedings UPC_CFI_153/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, D.
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_54/2024, ACT_7603/2024, ORD_45269/2024, App_40280/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 1, M. Zigann) ordered Headwater Research to provide, within three weeks, security for costs of EUR 100,000 by deposit into the UPC account, in…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_153/2024, ACT_16417/2024, ORD_46985/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (panel 2, D. Voß) admitted Access Advance, administrator of an HEVC standard-essential patent pool, as an intervener in support of NEC in its infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 October 2024 (ORD_46866/2024, UPC_CFI_498/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division admitted Access Advance, administrator of the HEVC standard essential patent pool to which NEC contributed EP 3 057 321, as an intervener in support of NEC in…
Read the analysisBy order of 1 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_51903/2024, App_40442/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 1 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2024, ORD_52068/2024), the Milan Central Division (A. Postiglione, presiding and judge-rapporteur, A.-L.
Read the analysisBy order of 27 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_164/2024, ACT_18406/2024, ORD_45914/2024, App_42517/2024), the Paris Central Division (panel 2, presided by P. Catallozzi) ordered Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing, claimant in the infringement action on EP 2 671 173, to provide security for Microsoft's…
Read the analysisBy an order of 26 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_220/2023, ACT_545619/2023, APP_31889/2024, ORD_39681/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division referred to the panel the request by Xiaomi Inc.
Read the analysisBy order of 26 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_226/2024, ACT_26489/2024, ORD_53245/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division (Thomas, presiding and judge-rapporteur, Dr Thom, Kokke) permitted, with the defendants' consent, Dolby International's withdrawal of its infringement action on EP 3 605 534 against the Optoma companies, made…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_347/2024, ACT_37931/2024, ORD_53404/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Düsseldorf Local Division set out, ahead of the oral hearing of 8 October 2024, the evidence regime for the application for provisional measures brought by Valeo Electrification…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_340/2024, ACT_36792/2024, App_52697/2024), the Düsseldorf Local Division, on the parties' joint application, stayed under Rule 295(d), from 25 September to 15 November 2024, the action brought by Innovative Sonic Corporation for infringement of EP…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 25 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_114/2024, UPC_CFI_448/2024, ACT_13227/2024, ORD_36668/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division partly admitted the amendment of claim sought by Heraeus Electronics GmbH & Co.
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 24 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_494/2023, ACT_596431/2023, ORD_52883/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division held that Rule 263 did not apply to the auxiliary requests amended by Unilever France, the defendant in the action brought by I.G.B.
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023, App_52033/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (P. Tochtermann) rejected the application by Panasonic Holdings Corporation to have its own party expert heard as a witness at the oral hearing…
Read the analysisBy a procedural order of 17 September 2024 (ACT_586899/2023, ORD_52140/2024), the judge-rapporteur of The Hague Local Division (E. Brinkman) granted Dexcom leave to amend its counterclaim for revocation of EP 4 070 727 B1 by adding a request for a declaration of…
Read the analysisBy an order of 17 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_189/2024, ACT_22275/2024, App_45333/2024, ORD_45922/2024), the judge-rapporteur of panel 2 of the Paris Central Division (P.
Read the analysisBy decision of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_412/2023, ACT_585518/2023, ORD_51965/2024), the Paris Central Division (P. Catallozzi, presiding and judge-rapporteur, T.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_88/2024, ACT_10800/2024, ORD_28786/2024), the Hamburg Local Division (S. Klepsch, presiding and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_5/2023, ACT_459762/2023, ORD_50820/2024), the presiding judge of Panel 1 of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Philips IP Ventures B.V.'s infringement action on EP 2 372 863 against Belkin and other defendants, postponed the oral…
Read the analysisBy order of 9 September 2024 (ACT_459771/2023, ORD_50813/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann), in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on EP 3 611 989 against Netgear, set aside point 3 of his order of 30 August 2024 appointing a…
Read the analysisBy order of 4 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_400/2024, ORD_45723/2024, App_45575/2024), the Milan Local Division (P. Perrotti, presiding, A.
Read the analysisBy order of 3 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023, App_49142/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division (Tochtermann) disregarded the rejoinder submissions of Xiaomi Technology Germany and the other defendants concerning two third-party licences, in the action brought by Panasonic Holdings…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2024 (ACT_545620/2023, ORD_40296/2024), the Munich Local Division (Zigann, Kupecz, Pichlmaier, Roselinger) refused Panasonic Holdings Corporation's application to extend its infringement action on EP 3 024 163, brought against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany among others,…
Read the analysisBy order of 2 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_368/2024, ACT_39183/2024, App_48679/2024), the Deputy President of the Court of First Instance (C. Lignieres), on behalf of the President, dismissed the Magna companies' application for review of the allocation of the technically qualified judge in the…
Read the analysisBy order of 30 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_9/2024, ACT_459771/2023, ORD_49424/2024), issued after the interim conference of 29 August, the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (Zigann) organised the final stage of the interim procedure in Huawei Technologies' infringement action on…
Read the analysisBy order of 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_48649/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) granted Hewlett-Packard Development Company's request to hear, at the oral hearing of 2 October 2024, a witness employed by the HP…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes) allowed Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, in its application for provisional measures on EP 2 819 131 against ASUSTek Computer, Digital River Ireland and Arvato Netherlands, to…
Read the analysisBy order of 23 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_336/2024, ACT_36426/2024), the President of the Court of First Instance (F. Butin), after consulting the panel of the Düsseldorf Local Division, granted the request of Aiko Energy Germany, Solarlab Aiko Europe and five other defendants to…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_230/2024, ACT_27358/2024, ORD_43896/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Paris Central Division (M. Haedicke) dismissed the request of Ballinno, proprietor of EP 1 944 067 and defendant to the revocation action brought by Kinexon Sports & Media, to…
Read the analysisBy order of 21 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023, ACT_578697/2023, ORD_47694/2024), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Paris Local Division (C. Lignières) excluded from the proceedings most of the brief filed on 15 July 2024 by Hewlett-Packard Development Company and of the brief…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2023, ACT_582093/2023, ORD_14940/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Johansson, Härmand, Bessaud, Wilhelm) dismissed the request of Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants for Edwards Lifesciences, based in the United States, to provide security of EUR 800,000…
Read the analysisBy order of 20 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_380/2023, ACT_582093/2023, ORD_16663/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (Johansson, Härmand, Bessaud, Wilhelm) dismissed the request of Meril Life Sciences and five other defendants to stay the infringement action on EP 3 769 722 brought by Edwards Lifesciences…
Read the analysisBy order of 16 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024, App_41354/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, S.
Read the analysisBy order of 16 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_8/2023, ACT_459769/2023, ORD_44404/2024), the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division set the timetable for resuming Edwards Lifesciences' infringement action on EP 2 628 464 against Meril Lifesciences and other defendants, together with the counterclaims for revocation.
Read the analysisBy order of 15 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_22/2023), the judge-rapporteur of the Hamburg Local Division, in the infringement action brought by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against Vizgen on EP 4 108 782, accepted that an application for production…
Read the analysisBy decision of 13 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_513/2023, ACT_597691/2023, ORD_39075/2024), the Munich Local Division permitted Network System Technologies to withdraw its infringement action on EP 1 552 669 against Texas Instruments Incorporated and Texas Instruments Deutschland, following a settlement.
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_41/2024, ACT_5324/2024, ORD_25797/2024), the Munich Local Division (M. Zigann, presiding judge and judge-rapporteur, P.
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (ORD_27411/2024, UPC_CFI_42/2024, ACT_5326/2024), the Munich Local Division refused Motorola Mobility leave to change its claims, in its action for infringement of EP 3 342 086 against Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Ericsson GmbH, so as to add…
Read the analysisBy order of 6 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_67/2024, ACT_8805/2024, CC_28486/2024, ORD_40041/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) dismissed the request by Manfred Sauer GmbH and Mr Manfred Sauer, defendants in Qufora's infringement action on EP 2 911 727, to be…
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