UPC CFI 64/2024

Vor dem UPC: Network System Technologies LLC (77 Verfahren)·Samsung Group (57 Verfahren)

• 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