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UPC CFI 64/2024

1. März 2024·EP1875683 · INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND IC DESIGN METHOD

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Verfahrensdetails
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Case Closed (Keine Verletzung)
Verfahrensart
Verletzung
Kategorie
Hauptverletzungsklage
Parteien
Kläger
Vertreter
Division
Munich LD
Richter
Technologie
  • Electrical engineering
    Digital communication
Sprache
English
Erste Entscheidung
11. März 2026
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Vor dem UPC: Network System Technologies LLC (77 Verfahren)·Samsung Group (57 Verfahren)

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Entscheidungen
  • 2026-03-11
    Infringement ActionÖffentlich

    Zusammenfassung: The Munich Local Division (Panel 2) dismissed Network System Technologies' infringement action against Qualcomm's NoC-based chips under EP 1875683, finding that the Arteris-derived width converters and rate adapters relied on do not delay whole data packages by M*N clock cycles as required by claims 1 and 8, and rejecting infringement by equivalence and the request to order production of Qualcomm's source code under R.190 RoP. On the linked counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_450/2024), the Court rejected Qualcomm's added-matter, novelty (over “Bertozzi”) and inventive-step attacks and held the patent valid as granted.

    Rechtsfragen anzeigen (7)
    • Claim construction of ‘M*N data storage elements’ introducing a delay of M*N clock cycles on the first communication channel (feature group 4)
    • Non-infringement: width converters and rate adapters do not delay whole data packages by M*N clock cycles
    • Infringement by equivalence rejected for failure to identify a specific substitute means, its function and technical effect
    • Request to produce evidence (source code) under Art. 59(1) UPCA / R.190 RoP rejected as an impermissible ‘fishing expedition’
    • Added matter / inadmissible extension (intermediate generalisation), Art. 65(2) UPCA, Art. 138(1)(c) EPC, Art. 123(2) EPC
    • Novelty over “Bertozzi” (“Xpipes: A Network-on-Chip Architecture for Gigascale Systems-on-Chip”), Art. 54 EPC
    • Inventive step, Art. 56 EPC
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Angenommene Argumente
Was das Gericht akzeptiert hat — nach Partei.

  • Width converters and rate adapters used in the accused NoC architecture do not delay whole data packages by M*N clock cycles as required by feature group 4 of claim 1 (and correspondingly claim 8); each data element is delayed by a different number of clock cycles, and data packages of varying size have no fixed correspondence to a fixed number of M*N data storage elements.

    BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: Non-infringement – claim construction of feature group 4 of claim 1 / claim 8

  • The patent-in-suit is not inadmissibly extended: the requirement that a complete data package is transmitted within N clock cycles is implicit in (a clear and unambiguous consequence of) the application as filed, so the amendment of claims 1 and 8 during examination is not an impermissible intermediate generalisation.

    KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 65(2) UPCA in conjunction with Art. 138(1)(c) EPC / Art. 123(2) EPC (added matter)

  • The claimed subject matter is novel over “Bertozzi” and involves an inventive step, because “Bertozzi” is not a suitable/realistic starting point in the prior art and does not point the skilled person toward the claimed solution.

    KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 54 EPC (novelty), Art. 56 EPC (inventive step)
Zurückgewiesene Argumente
Was das Gericht nicht akzeptiert hat — und warum.

  • The Arteris NoC Chapter, together with Qualcomm's acquisition of Arteris technology and personnel, plausibly evidences that the accused NoC ICs use M*N data storage elements to delay whole data packages, warranting an order to produce Qualcomm's source code and technical documents.

    KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Art. 59(1) UPCA, R.190.1 RoP – rejected for lack of plausible evidence in support of the claim and as amounting to a US-style ‘fishing expedition’

  • In the alternative, the Qualcomm NoC ICs infringe feature group 4 by equivalence.

    KlägerRechtsgrundlage: Doctrine of equivalence – rejected because the Claimant did not specifically explain which feature is realised by which substitute means, its function and its technical effect

  • The amendment of claims 1 and 8 during examination constitutes an inadmissible intermediate generalisation of the application as filed, and the claims lack novelty over “Bertozzi” and lack an inventive step.

    BeklagterRechtsgrundlage: Art. 138(1)(c) EPC / Art. 123(2) EPC (added matter); Art. 54 EPC (novelty); Art. 56 EPC (inventive step) – all rejected, patent maintained as granted