| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_35051/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Court of Appeal order on a confidentiality application (R. 262A RoP) filed by Kodak (appellants/defendants) in appeal proceedings concerning Fujifilm's infringement action. The order addresses confidentiality of trade secrets and commercially sensitive information in the grounds of appeal, confirming that the requirements of the Court's electronic case management system do not override the Rules of Procedure and the Court's case law. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_35194/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Court of Appeal order denying Yealink's request for simultaneous interpretation at the oral hearing in provisional measures proceedings. The Court held that a party must justify the need for court-ordered simultaneous interpretation; the fact that the defendant is based in a non-English speaking country or that company officials will have difficulties following proceedings does not generally justify such an order. The same applies to interpretation at the parties' own cost. A party may instead engage a private interpreter at its own expense with two weeks' notice to the Registry (R. 109.4 RoP). |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_26908/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Beweis | Nur prozessual | The Hague Local Division dismissed Black Sheep Retail Products B.V.'s application to deposit three physical objects as late exhibits in the infringement and counterclaim for revocation proceedings against HL Display AB (UPC_CFI_386/2024, EP 2 432 351). The Court rejected the application because no explanation was given as to why the physical objects could not have been filed together with the rejoinder of 20 February 2025. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_34189/2025 | Paris CD | Generic application | Prozessual | Vergleich | Paris Central Division ordered the release of a EUR 25,000 security for procedural costs deposited by Ballinno B.V. (the defendant in a revocation action) to Kinexon Sports & Media GmbH (the claimant), following a settlement agreement between the parties. The main revocation action had been decided on 30 April 2025 (EP 1 944 067 revoked). The court applied Rule 352.2 RoP by analogy, noting the conclusion of the proceedings and the settlement. |
| 2025-08-21 | ACT_30657/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division granted a joint application by both parties to stay the infringement proceedings under R.295(d) and R.296.2 RoP pending ongoing settlement negotiations. The stay was granted until reinstitution of proceedings at the request of either party. This is the underlying infringement action UPC_CFI_580/2025 (Tridonic v. Inventronics). |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_33358/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop313 | Prozessual | Zurückgenommen | The UPC Court of Appeal granted the withdrawal of an intervention application filed by LIFE 365 S.R.L. and LIFE 365 ITALY S.P.A. in an appeal (LAMA v Hewlett-Packard) concerning patents EP2089230 and EP1737669, as the underlying appeal had already been closed before the intervention request was filed. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_33358/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop313 | Prozessual | Zurückgenommen | Court of Appeal granted the application by Life 365 S.r.l. and Life 365 Italy S.p.A. to withdraw their application to intervene (R. 313 RoP), following a settlement between LAMA and HPDC in the underlying appeal proceedings. The parties in the main appeal had already withdrawn all their claims by decision of 24 July 2025. |
| 2025-08-20 | UPC_APP_34743/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Mannheim Local Division (full panel) rejected Centripetal Limited's request for a further written pleading after defendants' rejoinder, confirming the judge-rapporteur's order that admitting a new infringement reading would necessitate an additional defendant brief incompatible with the scheduled oral hearing timetable. |
| 2025-08-20 | ORD_34687/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division order (judge-rapporteur Kupecz) in provisional measures proceedings by Occlutech GmbH against Lepu Medical entities concerning EP 1 998 686 (medical device / patent). The order appoints a technically qualified judge (TQJ) under Art. 8(5)(2) UPCA and R. 34 RoP for the PI proceedings, as the panel considers it necessary to assess the validity of the patent at issue. No substantive ruling. |
| 2025-08-19 | ORD_35092/2025 | Munich LD | Rule 264 Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division judge-rapporteur ordered separation of proceedings, directing that the action against defendants 1 and 2 (represented defendants) be separated from the main proceedings, with all procedural time limits as in the original action. |
| 2025-08-19 | UPC_APP_34857/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order granting the defendants' request to extend the time period for their statement of defence and counterclaim for revocation following their access to the unredacted version of a confidential exhibit under a R.262A RoP pre-order. |
| 2025-08-19 | UPC_APP_34490/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order of the Hague Local Division granting a deadline extension for the defendants (Walt Disney Company entities) in infringement proceedings concerning a patent for electronic programme guide technology owned by Adeia Guides Inc. |
| 2025-08-19 | UPC_CFI_131/2025 | Brussels LD | Generic Order | Kosten | Nur prozessual | Final rectification order from the Brussels Local Division dated 19 August 2025 pursuant to R. 353 RoP, correcting a material error (arithmetic mistake) in an earlier costs order. The order clarifies that a rectification under R. 353 RoP is limited to correcting material errors, clerical mistakes and arithmetic errors, and cannot be used to reopen the reasoning of the earlier decision. The court also held that a rectification order does not affect the time limits for appeal relating to alleged legal errors in the original decision. |
| 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. |
| 2025-08-18 | UPC_APP_33670/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | motionName.jurisdictional | Nur prozessual | President of the UPC Court of First Instance granted defendants' application to change the language of proceedings in UPC_CFI_460/2025 from the language of the statement of claim to English (the language in which the patent EP 2 765 731 was granted). The order found that the balancing of interests, including the defendants' internal communication needs, favoured a change to English. A separate request that the oral hearing be held in German was dismissed as premature; this may be discussed with the Judge-rapporteur. |
| 2025-08-15 | UPC_APP_34722/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Court of Appeal denied Sun Patent Trust's application for suspensive effect of a confidentiality order, holding that an application for suspensive effect cannot be made before lodging a Statement of Appeal; the standing judge dismissed the application as inadmissible. |
| 2025-08-15 | UPC_APP_34897/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Hague Local Division granted parties' mutual request to stay the infringement proceedings until 13 February 2026 under Rule 295(d) RoP, following a joint application indicating settlement discussions. |
| 2025-08-15 | UPC_APP_34719/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The UPC Court of Appeal dismissed Sun Patent Trust's application for suspensive effect of two appeals concerning confidentiality orders in infringement proceedings against Vivo entities (EP3407524 and EP3852468), because a statement of appeal had not yet been lodged as required by R.223.1 and R.224.1 RoP. |
| 2025-08-15 | UPC_APP_34336/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Kosten | Vergleich | The Court of Appeal granted the release and transfer of a security deposit of EUR 25,000 (provided by Ballinno for Kinexon's legal costs in the appeal proceedings) following a settlement agreement between the parties. The appeal had been adjudicated on 26 June 2025 and thereafter the parties entered into a settlement. The security was ordered to be transferred to Kinexon Sports GmbH. |
| 2025-08-15 | UPC_APP_34714/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Court of Appeal refused Rivolution's application for suspensive effect of its appeal against Munich Local Division's preliminary injunction granted to Cilag and Ethicon for infringement of EP 2 515 768. The Court held that in the absence of the grounds for decision, manifest error can only be established if the operative part pronounces a legal consequence not derived from the UPCA or RoP. No such manifest error was found. |
| 2025-08-14 | ORD_34872/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic Order | Kosten | Nur Kosten | Hamburg Local Division (14 August 2025) ordered that the EUR 56,000 security for procedural costs provided by Ballinno B.V. be released to the defendants (Kinexon companies), constituting a partial settlement of the pending costs application, and declared the costs application (App_44034/2024) closed. |
| 2025-08-14 | UPC_APP_16918/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Court of Appeal issued an order in Barco v. Yealink proceedings concerning an application for leave to change the claim (R. 263 RoP) and a request for further written pleadings (R. 36 RoP). The court denied leave to introduce a subsidiary claim that broadened the previous claim scope without justification for the late filing. The court also addressed the boundaries of permissible references to first-instance oral hearing statements on appeal. |
| 2025-08-13 | UPC_APP_11672/2025 | The Hague LD | Procedural Order | Prozessual | Nicht verletzt | The Hague Local Division dismissed Winnow Solutions' infringement action against Orbisk B.V. (food waste monitoring system, EP 3 198 245), finding no infringement. The patent was partially revoked and Winnow was ordered to pay EUR 112,000 in legal costs. |
| 2025-08-13 | UPC_APP_34218/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Hague Local Division considered Genevant/Arbutus's applications to extend deadlines for filing their reply to the defence and statement of defence in counterclaim, following delayed access to confidential information in the Moderna mRNA patent infringement proceedings. |
| 2025-08-12 | UPC_APP_19218/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Local Division Düsseldorf amended a prior confidentiality order under R.262A RoP after the defendants withdrew their objection to the natural person identified by the claimant, adjusting the confidentiality club composition and the scope of protected technical information relating to surf wave machine technology. |
| 2025-08-12 | UPC_APP_33761/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Court of Appeal (12 August 2025) extended the deadline for Cisco to file its response to Lionra's appeal and any cross-appeal by two weeks (to 3 October 2025), finding a full month extension too long and one week too short given that Cisco had only recently obtained access to Lionra's unredacted appeal grounds (which contained confidential source code material). |
| 2025-08-12 | UPC_APP_34519/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division order (judge-rapporteur Thomas) changing the language of proceedings from German to English in infringement proceedings by Headwater Research LLC against Samsung Electronics entities concerning EP 3 110 072. Both parties requested the change to the language in which the patent was granted (English), pursuant to Art. 49(3) UPCA and R. 321 RoP. The order was granted. |
| 2025-08-11 | UPC_APP_23444/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order in an infringement action concerning security for costs (Art. 69.4 UPCA, R. 158 RoP). Defendants requested the claimant (a Cypriot entity) provide security of EUR 3.3 million total (EUR 1.1 million per defendant). Claimant opposed or sought a lower amount with insurance as alternative security. The order addresses the competing requests for security for costs but the operative decision text was not fully reproduced in the excerpt. |
| 2025-08-11 | UPC_APP_20446/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division ordered claimant Syntorr LP to provide security for costs to defendants Arthrex Inc., Arthrex GmbH, and Arthrex Distribution Hub EMEA B.V. in the total amount of EUR 2,000,000 by 30 September 2025, either by bank guarantee or deposit. The court rejected Syntorr's litigation insurance policy as adequate security under Rule 158(1) RoP but set the amount at the regular ceiling of EUR 2,000,000 rather than the EUR 3,300,000 requested. Defendants' request for EUR 3,300,000 was dismissed. |
| 2025-08-08 | UPC_APP_28086/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Panel review under Rule 333 RoP of a judge-rapporteur order (App_22065/2025) that had dismissed a defendant's application to admit a new novelty attack based on new prior art (EP 3 868 480) into the counterclaim for revocation. The order concerned whether leave to amend the counterclaim should be granted under Rule 263 RoP. |
| 2025-08-06 | UPC_APP_66435/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Kosten | Nur Kosten | The Mannheim Local Division ruled that a separate costs assessment procedure under R.150 RoP is not available for costs incurred in applications for procedural orders such as security for costs (R.158 RoP), and that such costs will instead be assessed as part of the overall costs assessment following the final decision on the merits. |
| 2025-08-06 | UPC_APP_20207/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order granting in part Hurom's R. 262A RoP application for protection of confidential information (legal fee invoices) in the cost proceedings (UPC_CFI_159/2024, UPC_CFI_336/2025) between Hurom and WARMCOOK/NUC Electronics concerning EP 2 028 981. The court granted confidentiality protection for detailed billing information but denied the requested access restriction to lawyers only, as this required party consent under R. 262A.6 RoP. |
| 2025-08-05 | UPC_APP_32878/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Endgültige Untersagung | Düsseldorf Local Division (5 August 2025) issued a default judgment (Versäumnisentscheidung) against Whale Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. finding infringement of EP 3 912 243 B1 (cable protection guide for cleanroom applications) and ordering a permanent injunction, recall and withdrawal of infringing products, disclosure of financial information, and damages assessment. The defendant failed to appear. Costs awarded to igus GmbH; dispute value set at EUR 500,000. |
| 2025-08-05 | ORD_33920/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division decided to proceed with both the infringement action and the counterclaim for revocation jointly (Art. 33(3)(a) UPCA) in Wonderland Nurserygoods Co., Ltd. v. Cybex GmbH et al. (EP 1 905 615). Both parties consented to the joint hearing. The early decision on the bifurcation issue was taken under R. 37.2 RoP for reasons of efficiency and to allow uniform interpretation of the patent. |
| 2025-08-05 | UPC_APP_33060/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP in the costs proceedings between 10x Genomics Inc. and Curio Bioscience Inc. (arising from main infringement proceedings UPC_CFI_140/2024 over EP 2 697 391 B1). The order classified certain sections of Curio's submission as confidential trade secrets and restricted access to named representatives and specified individuals on the 10x Genomics side. |
| 2025-08-04 | ORD_33845/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division requested the President of the Court of First Instance to appoint an additional technically qualified judge with expertise in the field of the patent (IPC: G01N) for the provisional-measures panel in the case brought by Imusyn GmbH & Co. KG against BAG Diagnostics GmbH, with the agreement of both parties. |
| 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. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_35230/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order granting an application for protection of confidential information (R. 262A RoP) concerning the patent EP 2 697 391 in infringement proceedings between 10x Genomics and Curio Bioscience. The court granted the confidentiality application subject to conditions, restricting access to specified cost items to a limited number of persons. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_32590/2025 | The Hague LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Local Division The Hague issued a confidentiality order under R.262A RoP based on an agreement reached between Moderna entities and Arbutus Biopharma/Genevant, establishing a confidentiality club for technical information disclosed in infringement proceedings concerning mRNA vaccine patents. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_33935/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Mannheim Local Division extended the time period for NUC Electronics Co., Ltd. to comment on a penalty payment request by Hurom Co., Ltd. by two weeks (until 20 August 2025) in enforcement proceedings concerning EP 2 028 981. The full extension of three weeks requested by NUC was rejected. Defendant's vacation-related and logistical reasons were insufficient to justify the full extension. The extension of the comment period does not affect the defendant's obligation to provide information in due time, nor the amount of any potential penalty. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_32667/2025 | The Hague LD | Amend Document | Prozessual | Abgewiesen | Application to amend the statement of claim (to base claims on B2 version of patent instead of B1) was dismissed as devoid of purpose. The judge-rapporteur held that under Art. 68 EPC the B2 version of the patent retroactively replaced the B1 version from the date of grant, so the statement of claim already relied on the B2 version as a matter of law. The revised statement of claim (annexes TW04/TW05) was admitted into proceedings for reference. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33556/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division partially granted MediaTek Germany GmbH's application for document production of licence agreements under R. 190 RoP in Huawei's infringement proceedings, classifying specified portions of the application relating to licence negotiations as confidential under R. 262A RoP. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33556/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP and Rule 190 RoP in Huawei v MediaTek Germany infringement proceedings (EP 4 142 215). The order established a confidentiality club for license agreement documents sought in discovery, in accordance with the parties' agreed NDA. Access was restricted to named representatives and in-house counsel. Further confidentiality measures for oral hearing, judgment publication, and a separate production request were deferred. |
| 2025-08-01 | ORD_34168/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a procedural order requiring the claimant (Ona Patents SL) to clarify ambiguities in patent assignment documentation and to submit additional documents to establish standing to sue in the proceedings concerning EP 2 263 098 B1 against Apple entities. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_19218/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Order of the Düsseldorf Local Division on an application under Rule 262A RoP for confidentiality protection of technical details of the challenged embodiment submitted by the defendants WhiteWater West Industries Ltd., Endless Surf Ltd. and White Water Era GmbH in infringement proceedings against Surftown GmbH. The Court granted the confidentiality order for technical design details not publicly available, setting the restricted access circle under Rule 262A.6 RoP. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33807/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Hague Local Division issued a procedural order in two related provisional measures proceedings brought by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. against Menarini and Sinocare concerning different patents but the same product (the GlucoMen iCan CGM system). The court addressed postponement of the oral hearing and various procedural measures given the related nature of the two applications. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33206/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Abgewiesen | Mannheim Local Division dismissed Centripetal Limited's request under R. 36 RoP for permission to file an additional written pleading introducing a new infringement reading in proceedings against Keysight Technologies entities (EP 3 821 580). The court held: (1) introducing a new infringement reading at this stage would require a further brief from defendants and could not be prepared before the October 2025 oral hearing; (2) defendants' rejoinder was a proper reaction to claimant's new reading in the Reply, not new independent arguments; (3) the front-loaded UPC procedure does not allow new infringement readings to be added progressively; (4) claimant had known about the disputed functionality from 2023 ITC proceedings. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33539/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Order of the Mannheim Local Division in Powermat Technologies v Anker Innovations rejecting the defendants' conditional request to stay the infringement proceedings (R. 295 RoP) pending a final decision on their FRAND counterclaim before the Munich Local Division. The court denied the stay at this stage. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33544/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order by Munich Local Division Panel 2 in Huawei Technologies v MediaTek (EP 4 142 215) granting MediaTek Germany's confidentiality application under R. 262A RoP over the non-technical part of its defence (Klageerwiderung), based on an extra-judicial NDA concluded between the MediaTek group and Huawei on 11 July 2025. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_25317/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Court of Appeal (Second Panel) ruled on Strabag's and Chainzone's applications for confidentiality orders under R. 262A RoP in their appeal of the Swarco v. Strabag infringement decision from Vienna Local Division. The Court partly granted and partly rejected the applications, confirming that product characteristics not readily accessible to third parties constitute trade secrets, but rejected applications for information already submitted at first instance without a timely R. 262A request. |