| 2025-09-08 | UPC_APP_36126/2025 | Munich CD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division (Section Munich) judge-rapporteur refused the claimant's application for a two-week extension of the deadline to reply to the defence to revocation, finding that the claimant had not demonstrated sufficient diligence in commencing technical testing. |
| 2025-09-04 | ACT_35974/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application for an Order for inspection pursuant to RoP199 | Beweis | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division granted Ecovacs Robotics an ex parte inspection and evidence preservation order against Roborock (HK) Limited at the IFA 2025 trade fair in Berlin, concerning EP 3 808 512 B1 (robot vacuum cleaner). |
| 2025-09-02 | ACT_32548/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division judge-rapporteur issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP in preliminary injunction proceedings, restricting access to certain confidential technical and commercial information of the respondents to a limited circle of persons. |
| 2025-08-18 | UPC_APP_33094/2025 | The Hague LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Hague Local Division (18 August 2025) confirmed the preliminary objection order upholding UPC jurisdiction over multiple Moderna entities (including Moderna Spain and Moderna Norway) in infringement actions concerning COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax. The panel dismissed all Moderna's grounds challenging international jurisdiction under Brussels Regulation Art. 7(2) and 8(1) and the Lugano Convention. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_33353/2025 | Munich CD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division (Munich) ruled on UPM-Kymmene's Rule 36 RoP request to file further written pleadings in its revocation action against International N&H Denmark ApS regarding EP 2 611 800. |
| 2025-07-25 | ACT_7974/2025 | Brussels LD | Application For Costs | Kosten | Nur Kosten | Decision of the Brussels Local Division on costs (Rule 156 RoP) following dismissal of infringement claims in the main proceedings (UPC_CFI_376/2023) brought by a claimant against OrthoApnea S.L. and Vivisol B BV. The Court set out principles for cost recovery including timing of requests for ceiling adjustments, burden of proof for claimed costs, and excluded translation costs and certain security-related costs as non-recoverable. |
| 2025-07-21 | UPC_APP_18982/2025 | Paris LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Paris Local Division granted Sun Patent Trust's application for confidentiality protection (Rule 262A RoP) over parts of the statement of claim and exhibits in this SEP infringement action against Vivo entities, while denying certain broadly framed requests. |
| 2025-07-15 | UPC_APP_29243/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order on BioNTech/Pfizer's R. 262A RoP application to extend confidentiality protection to certain information in the Promosome LLC v. BioNTech/Pfizer infringement proceedings concerning EP 2 401 365. The court largely denied the extension, finding that the information was already covered by an existing confidentiality order of 10 March 2025. |
| 2025-06-13 | UPC_APP_25818/2025 | Munich CD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Central Division (13 June 2025) admitted late-filed pleadings (including new added matter arguments and a Swedish Patent Office consulting report) submitted by TCL in the revocation action against Corning's EP 3 296 274, following a party agreement, and extended the deadline for Corning's Defence to Revocation by two weeks. |
| 2025-05-26 | ORD_25044/2025 | Munich CD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Central Division issued a procedural order in revocation proceedings (EP 4 019 790) requiring the parties to upload written submissions in the patent amendment workflow, and granting Baussmann leave to file a further reply on the scope of the counterclaim and the patent amendment request. |
| 2025-04-11 | UPC_APP_17187/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division ruled on continuation of written proceedings in the 10x Genomics v. Bruker infringement action, holding that four auxiliary requests is a reasonable number under Rule 30.1(c) RoP and authorising continuation of the written procedure following the EPO Opposition Division's decision maintaining the patent in limited form. |
| 2025-04-09 | UPC_APP_11272/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division issued an order on Promosome LLC v. BioNTech/Pfizer infringement proceedings (EP 2 401 365), addressing security for costs applications by both BioNTech/Pfizer groups. The court determined the appropriate amount of security, accepting the claimant's willingness to provide security by deposit. The court fixed the security amount based on the recoverable costs ceiling rather than the defendants' requested EUR 5,000,000. |
| 2025-04-03 | UPC_APP_11372/2025 | Munich LD | Procedural Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division order on BioNTech/Pfizer's application under R. 190 RoP for production of detailed materials, methods and raw data underlying an expert report (Exhibit VB 6) submitted by Promosome LLC (claimant) in mRNA patent infringement proceedings. The order addresses what supporting data must be disclosed when an expert report is filed as evidence. |
| 2025-03-10 | UPC_APP_15/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division granted Promosome LLC's application under Rule 262A RoP for confidentiality protection of certain exhibits (VB 4a and VB 4b) in its infringement action against BioNTech and Pfizer entities. |
| 2025-03-10 | UPC_APP_15/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP in the infringement action by BioNTech/Pfizer entities against Promosome LLC (EP 2 401 365). The order protected specific exhibits (VB 4a and VB 4b) containing confidential licensing information, granting access only to named representatives and specified individuals from each party. The preliminary protection from a prior order was lifted to the extent superseded. |
| 2025-02-28 | UPC_APP_7719/2025 | Munich CD | Application Rop305 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division (Munich) granted Virdia Inc.'s application to substitute International N&H Denmark ApS as the defendant in UPM-Kymmene's revocation action, following assignment of EP 2 611 800 to the new entity. |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_608/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division panel reviewed the judge-rapporteur's decision to grant only 40% court fee reimbursement (rather than 60% sought by Panasonic) following settlement-based withdrawal of the infringement actions and counterclaims. |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_619/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Nur Kosten | Munich Local Division panel order reviewing (R. 333 RoP) the judge-rapporteur's earlier decision to refund only 40% of court fees following withdrawal of infringement actions and counterclaims (after out-of-court settlement) in patent proceedings by Panasonic Holdings Corporation against Xiaomi entities (UPC_CFI_220/2023) and Guangdong OPPO Mobile (UPC_CFI_221/2023) concerning EP 3 024 163. Panasonic argued a 60% refund was due. The panel confirmed the 40% refund rate, finding the withdrawals occurred after closure of the written procedure (R. 370.9(b)(ii) RoP). |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_516/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Vergleich | Munich Local Division order reviewing (under R. 333 RoP) an earlier order that granted only 40% court fee reimbursement following the parties' settlement and mutual withdrawal of infringement action and revocation counterclaims. The parties had agreed on settlement in late 2024 after intensive proceedings in a complex SEP case (OPPO vs Panasonic re EP 2 197 132). The claimant challenged the 40% reimbursement, arguing that 60% should apply, contending the case qualified as exceptional under R. 370.9(e) RoP given the extraordinary amount of work the court had performed (far above average). The order addresses what constitutes an 'exceptional case' permitting reduction of the standard fee refund schedule. |
| 2025-02-24 | UPC_APP_7141/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order following an interim conference in the Hand Held Products v. Scandit infringement action, addressing issues including partial withdrawal of claims for direct infringement, Rule 36 requests, and workflow obligations under the case management system. |
| 2025-02-20 | UPC_APP_6987/2025 | Brussels LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Brussels Local Division (20 February 2025) ruled on HYLER BV's contested addition of new non-infringement arguments and a new document in its rejoinder. The panel rejected the primary request, upheld the alternative request in part, and excluded certain paragraphs of HYLER's rejoinder (paragraphs 506–510) from consideration, finding they introduced new arguments not justified by Cretes' reply submissions. The request for an extra week to respond was also rendered moot. |
| 2025-02-11 | UPC_APP_3915/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 365 | Prozessual | Vergleich | Infringement action by BSN Medical GmbH against Brightwake Ltd. and Advancis Medical entities for infringement of EP 3 831 350 and EP 3 033 058 concluded by court-confirmed settlement. The parties reached a settlement agreement filed on 07 February 2025. The order confirms the settlement and addresses a confidentiality request. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_2192/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Prozessual | Zurückgenommen | Decision by Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_487/2023, 24 January 2025) permitting withdrawal of TCL defendants' counterclaims for revocation and FRAND-licence offer. 60% of court fees were reimbursed for the revocation counterclaim. The court held that court fees are payable for FRAND-licence offer counterclaims by analogy under R. 370 RoP, and that such fees had been properly paid so no full refund was warranted. |
| 2025-01-17 | UPC_APP_2273/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Prozessual | Vergleich | Decision from the Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_498/2023) declaring the infringement action by NEC against TCL entities closed following a contractual settlement reached before closure of the written proceedings. NEC withdrew the infringement action (R. 265 RoP) and requested 60% reimbursement of court fees, relying on the settlement. The Court confirmed each party would bear its own costs and addressed the fee reimbursement request. |
| 2024-12-17 | UPC_APP_56792/2024 | Munich CD | Generic application | Kosten | Nur prozessual | Order of the Central Division (Munich Section) on a request by NanoString Technologies Europe Limited to release a security for legal costs imposed under Rule 158 RoP. The Court confirmed it has power to release security under Rule 352.2 RoP and set out the conditions for doing so, examining whether the reasons for imposing the security had ceased to exist following a final non-appealable judgment. |
| 2024-10-25 | ORD_55012/2024 | Brussels LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Brussels Local Division procedural order (full panel: Granata, Kupecz, Voss) in infringement proceedings by Cretes NV against Hyler BV concerning EP 3 993 602 and EP 4 284 152, deciding under R. 37(2) RoP to handle both the infringement action (ACT_25743/2024) and the revocation counterclaim (CC_53420/2024) jointly for reasons of efficiency, consistent with the parties' wishes. The joint treatment ensures uniform patent interpretation by the same panel. |
| 2024-10-22 | UPC_APP_47163/2024 | Munich CD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Order from the Central Division Munich (UPC_CFI_1/2023) on Dehns' application under R. 262.1(b) RoP for access to all written pleadings and evidence in the combined revocation and counterclaim for revocation proceedings (Sanofi v Amgen, EP 3 666 797). The Court granted partial access to case documents, subject to conditions proposed by Sanofi, to enable Dehns, a firm of UPC representatives, to better understand the Court's procedures. |
| 2024-09-11 | UPC_APP_36483/2024 | Milan LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | Beweis | Nur prozessual | The Milan Local Division granted Primetals Technologies Austria's ex-parte application for an order to preserve evidence at Danieli's premises concerning steel strip coiler driver technology allegedly infringing EP 2 624 977, ordering inspection, photography, document access and computer forensics assistance. |
| 2024-09-09 | ACT_50855/2024 | Unknown | — | Einstweilige Verfügung | PI erteilt | The Hamburg Local Division granted a preliminary injunction (interim measures) to Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Shenzhen Yunding Information Technology Co., Ltd., ordering the immediate seizure of infringing oral cleaning system products at the IFA 2024 trade fair in Berlin. The order was based on alleged direct infringement of EP 3 197 316. |
| 2024-09-02 | UPC_APP_33757/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop305 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division considered Panasonic's application to extend the infringement action to add OTECH Germany GmbH as an additional defendant, with defendants opposing the late amendment request under Rule 305 RoP. |
| 2024-07-25 | UPC_APP_42900/2024 | Munich CD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Central Division issued a procedural order in NanoString's revocation action against Harvard's EP 2 794 928, addressing the impact of the German Federal Patent Court's revocation decision (May 2024) on the parallel UPC proceedings and granting Harvard's request for expert evidence on auxiliary requests. |
| 2024-07-19 | ORD_42503/2024 | Brussels LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Brussels Local Division (full panel) dismissed the respondents' application for review under R. 333 RoP of an earlier judge-rapporteur order that had denied their objection against the claimant's equivalence arguments introduced in the reply. The panel upheld the judge-rapporteur's finding that introducing an infringement argument based on equivalence in the reply did not constitute a fundamental new ground requiring prior leave under R. 263.1 RoP. |
| 2024-07-10 | UPC_APP_39247/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division procedural order granting OPPO's request for an extension of the deadline for filing its rejoinder (Duplik) in infringement proceedings concerning a telecommunications patent owned by Panasonic. |
| 2024-07-08 | UPC_APP_37702/2024 | Brussels LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order of the Brussels Local Division in an infringement action concerning EP 2 331 036. The order addresses whether the claimant was permitted to supplement the factual basis and add equivalence infringement arguments in the Reply to the Statement of Defence, and whether the request/claims could be adapted. The order ruled on the admissibility of equivalence arguments raised at the reply stage. |
| 2024-05-09 | UPC_APP_26104/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division procedural order (judge-rapporteur Zigann) in infringement proceedings by NEC Corporation against TCL/TCT Mobile entities concerning EP 3 057 321. The order addresses a request by defendants to compel the claimant to supply the HEVC standard version referenced in the statement of claim. The order likely resolves this document disclosure issue procedurally. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |