Decisions of the Unified Patent Court recorded under "Standard-essential patents and FRAND" in UPC Litigation Watch, the case law database maintained by Dhenne Avocats.
Decisions of the Unified Patent Court concerning standard-essential patents and FRAND commitments: infringement notices, offers and counteroffers, willingness to take a licence, comparable licences, confidentiality of agreements, injunctions and provisional measures.
205 decisions recorded
By an order of 11 December 2024 (UPC_CFI_791/2024, ACT_65376/2024), the presiding judge of panel 1 of the Munich Local Division, sitting as single judge, prohibited Netgear Inc., Netgear International Limited and Netgear Deutschland GmbH, without hearing them, from pursuing the anti-suit and…
In a decision of 22 November 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the Mannheim Local Division ruled on Panasonic Holdings Corporation’s infringement action against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany, based on EP 2 568 724 (allocation of sounding reference signals, SRS, in the LTE…
In an order of 29 October 2024 (UPC_CoA_549/2024), the Court of Appeal granted partial suspensive effect to Belkin’s appeal against the Munich Local Division’s decision on the merits of 13 September 2024 finding infringement of Philips’ EP 2 867 997.
By order of 15 October 2024 (UPC_CFI_317/2024, ACT_35572/2024), the Lisbon Local Division (R. Lopes, presiding and rapporteur, S.
By 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.
By 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.
By 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…
By 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…
In an order of 24 September 2024 in three joined appeals (UPC_CoA_298/2024, UPC_CoA_299/2024 and UPC_CoA_300/2024), the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals of Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications and OROPE Germany against the Mannheim Local Division’s orders of 16 May 2024 refusing to…
By 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…
By an order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_219/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division organised the oral hearing in Panasonic's infringement action against four Xiaomi companies, Odiporo and Shamrock Mobile concerning EP 2 568 724, and set the…
By an order of 16 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_210/2023), the presiding judge and judge-rapporteur of the Mannheim Local Division organised the oral hearing in Panasonic's infringement action against OROPE Germany and Guangdong OPPO concerning EP 2 568 724, and set the value in…
By a decision on the merits of 13 September 2024 (UPC_CFI_390/2023), the Munich Local Division ruled on Koninklijke Philips' infringement action against Belkin GmbH, Belkin International, Belkin Limited and several of their officers concerning EP 2 867 997 (wireless inductive power transfer,…
By 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,…
By 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.
By order of 14 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_498/2023, ACT_596658/2023, ORD_41184/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) granted the confidentiality application (No.
By order of 14 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_487/2023, ACT_595922/2023, ORD_41183/2024), the judge-rapporteur of the Munich Local Division (U. Voß) granted the confidentiality application (No.