UPC CFI 65/2024

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 1552399 (a patent that had already expired on 7 October 2023), finding that the Arteris NoC's QoS signalling (the ‘prs’ and ‘Tag’ signals) does not request, determine, notify or establish a ‘connection’ via a communication manager and a resource manager as required by claim 1, and again rejecting the R.190 RoP request to order production of Qualcomm's source code. On the linked counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_451/2024), the Court rejected Qualcomm's novelty and inventive-step attacks (including combinations of ‘Goossens’/‘Goossens 2’/‘Rijpkema 2’ with ‘Drake’) and held the patent valid as granted, refusing a stay pending the German Federal Patent Court's parallel national revocation of the German part of the patent.

  Rechtsfragen anzeigen (6)

  • Claim construction of ‘connection’ established via a communication managing means and a resource managing means (claim 1)
  • Non-infringement: Arteris NoC's QoS / ‘prs’ / ‘Tag’ signalling does not request, determine, notify or establish a claimed ‘connection’
  • Request to produce evidence (source code) under Art. 59(1) UPCA / R.190 RoP rejected as an impermissible ‘fishing expedition’
  • Novelty, Art. 54 EPC
  • Inventive step over combinations of ‘Goossens’ / ‘Goossens 2’ / ‘Rijpkema 2’ with ‘Drake’, Art. 56 EPC
  • Stay of proceedings under R.295(a) RoP pending the German Federal Patent Court's national nullity decision – refused