| — | UPC_CFI_254/2025 | — | — | — | Nur prozessual | Procedural order granting confidentiality request (Rule 262A RoP) filed by Defendant MediaTek Germany GmbH in respect of information in its Statement of Defence (Non-Technical Part), including exclusion of the public from hearings and redaction of the decision for publication. Claimant Huawei confirmed the underlying non-disclosure agreement and did not oppose the request. |
| 2026-02-24 | UPC_CFI_337/2025 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Nichtigkeit (Hauptsache) | Patent aufrechterhalten | The Central Division (Munich) dismissed TCL Europe's revocation action against Corning's EP 3 296 274 (glass composition), finding all invalidity attacks unsuccessful. The patent was maintained as granted; TCL was ordered to bear Corning's legal costs. |
| 2026-02-24 | UPC_CFI_829/2024 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Nichtigkeit (Hauptsache) | Nichtig erklärt | The Central Division (Munich) revoked EP 2 611 800 (sugar compositions) in its entirety for Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden, finding the claims lacked inventive step and the application to amend was dismissed. The defendant bears UPM's costs. |
| 2026-02-24 | UPC_CFI_735/2024 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | outcomeName.other | The Mannheim Local Division issued a decision in TRUMPF Laser UK v. IPG Laser GmbH & Co. KG concerning EP 2 951 625 (optical apparatus for laser light), addressing infringement and a counterclaim for revocation; the outcome on infringement/validity requires additional pages not captured in the excerpt. |
| 2026-02-02 | UPC_CFI_657/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Kosten | Nur Kosten | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a cost decision following the merits judgment of 16 June 2025 (10x Genomics v. Curio Bioscience), apportioning costs of PI proceedings and main action proceedings at a 30%/70% ratio (claimant/defendant) based on the parties' respective success. |
| 2026-02-02 | UPC_CFI_658/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Kosten | Nur Kosten | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a costs decision in the 10x Genomics v Curio Bioscience proceedings (EP 2 697 391), establishing that costs of PI proceedings and main proceedings are capped separately, that mixing of costs between proceedings is inadmissible, and that in partial success the ceiling is reduced proportionally. |
| 2026-01-08 | UPC_CFI_377/2025 | Milan LD | Infringement Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Milan Local Division partially granted Primetals Technologies' application for an order to produce evidence under Art. 59 UPCA / R. 190 RoP, requiring Danieli to disclose documents relating to alleged infringement of EP 2 624 977 in steel coiling installations supplied to Hoa Phat Group in Vietnam. |
| 2025-12-23 | UPC_CFI_538/2025 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Zurückgenommen | Sun Patent Trust withdrew its infringement action concerning EP 2 903 267 against all defendants (Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and associated entities) before closure of the written procedure. Defendants 1-4 and 6-8 consented; Defendant 5 (ASD SAS) was unrepresented. No cost compensation was sought. Sun Patent Trust was ordered a 60% reimbursement of court fees under R.370.9(b)(i) and R.370.11 RoP. |
| 2025-12-22 | UPC_CFI_936/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application for provisional measures | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Mannheim Local Division issued a further procedural order in the InterDigital v. Amazon preliminary measures proceedings, addressing additional case management steps following the oral hearing of 14 November 2025. |
| 2025-12-05 | UPC_CFI_712/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application for provisional measures | Einstweilige Verfügung | PI erteilt | The Düsseldorf Local Division granted a preliminary injunction to Roche against A. Menarini Diagnostics for infringement of EP 1 962 668 B1 (implantable glucose sensor), ordering a recall and seizure of infringing sensors in France, Italy, and Germany, with an order to disclose distribution information and payment of EUR 32,051 provisional costs. |
| 2025-12-01 | UPC_CFI_337/2025 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division (Section Munich) judge-rapporteur issued a Rule 105.5 interim conference order in the revocation action concerning EP 3 296 274, setting procedural timetable, case valuation, and directions for further submissions including responses to an expert opinion. |
| 2025-11-27 | UPC_CFI_936/2025 | Mannheim LD | Request Rop115 | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Mannheim Local Division denied Amazon's request for a full transcript of an audio recording of the oral hearing in InterDigital v. Amazon preliminary injunction proceedings, ruling that R. 115 RoP does not permit full transcripts, especially where confidentiality regimes are in place and the transcript could be distributed in foreign jurisdictions. |
| 2025-11-21 | UPC_CFI_829/2024 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division (Munich) issued an order following the interim conference under Rule 105.5 RoP in UPM-Kymmene's revocation action against International N&H Denmark ApS, setting the case value at EUR 1,000,000 and confirming the oral hearing date of 15 January 2026. |
| 2025-11-20 | UPC_CFI_836/2024 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Nichtigkeit (Hauptsache) | Teilweise nichtig | The Munich Central Division partially revoked EP 4 019 790 B1 for 17 Member States in revocation proceedings brought by BAUSSMANN against Raimund Beck, upholding the patent only as amended per Auxiliary Request III (with claims 5 and 6 unchanged), and dismissing the remaining revocation claim; costs were split 70/30 in favour of the claimant. |
| 2025-11-11 | UPC_CFI_879/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application For Costs | Kosten | Zurückgenommen | The Mannheim Local Division permitted the withdrawal of Faro Technologies' application for cost assessment (Kostenfestsetzung) against Blankenhorn GmbH following an out-of-court settlement between the parties, with no costs order. |
| 2025-11-05 | UPC_CFI_461/2024 | Hamburg LD | Infringement Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Hamburg Local Division correction order (R. 353 RoP) correcting several errors in the judgment of 5 November 2025 in Dolle v. Fakro concerning EP 2 476 814 B1. Corrections included party representative name, address, patent claim reference number errors, and addition of the defendants' counterclaims relating to conditional auxiliary requests. |
| 2025-11-05 | UPC_CFI_461/2024 | Hamburg LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Verletzt | Hamburg Local Division found that Fakro entities infringed Dolle A/S's European Patent EP 2 476 814 B1 (roof window with priority claim). The Court granted an injunction, recall of infringing products, removal from distribution channels, provision of information and damages assessment deferred. Fakro's counterclaim for revocation was rejected. The Court confirmed that 'the same invention' in Art. 87 EPC is interpreted by the direct-and-unambiguous disclosure standard. |
| 2025-10-31 | UPC_CFI_630/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application for provisional measures | Einstweilige Verfügung | PI abgelehnt | The Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed the application for provisional measures filed by Occultech GmbH against Lepu Medical (Europa) Cooperatief U.A. and others concerning EP 1 998 686 B2. The court found that the requirements for a preliminary injunction were not met (infringement not established with sufficient certainty), and ordered the applicant to bear the costs. The case value was provisionally set at EUR 1,000,000. |
| 2025-10-30 | UPC_CFI_361/2025 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Abgewiesen | The Paris Local Division (full panel: Lignieres, Kupecz, Gillet) rejected Vivo's preliminary objection challenging UPC jurisdiction and the internal competence of the Paris Local Division in Sun Patent Trust's SEP/FRAND infringement action concerning EP 3 852 468. The Court held that UPC jurisdiction is established under Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA because an allegedly infringing Vivo product was offered and delivered to a French customer via Fnac.com, constituting a harmful event in France. Vivo's additional argument that only a FRAND defence (not a FRAND main claim) falls within UPC jurisdiction was deferred to the main proceedings under R. 20.2 RoP. |
| 2025-10-30 | UPC_CFI_362/2025 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Preliminary objection (R.19 RoP) decided by the Paris Local Division. The court rejected the jurisdictional challenge raised by Vivo (that the UPC lacks jurisdiction over an active FRAND determination request as the main claim), holding that the UPC has jurisdiction to hear the infringement action including FRAND aspects, and that the Paris Local Division is internally competent under Art.33.1(a) UPCA on the basis of alleged infringing sales in France. The preliminary objection was deferred/rejected and the case proceeds on the merits. |
| 2025-10-28 | UPC_CFI_729/2025 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division ordered Claimant 2 (ParTec AG) to provide security for costs of EUR 85,000 in favour of the defendants, finding insufficient evidence of ParTec's financial capacity; the application against Claimant 1 (BFexaQC AG) was rejected for lack of any financial information. |
| 2025-10-13 | UPC_CFI_362/2025 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Paris Local Division (judge-rapporteur Camille Lignieres) issued a preliminary order refusing Vivo's request to postpone the deadline for filing the Statement of Defence pending the outcome of Vivo's preliminary objection on UPC jurisdiction in the SEP/FRAND case (EP 3 407 524). The Court held that R. 19.6 RoP provides that the filing of a preliminary objection should not slow down the main proceedings in the absence of exceptional circumstances. Since Vivo would raise a FRAND defence in any event, no exceptional circumstances were established. The Statement of Defence remained due on 28 November 2025. |
| 2025-10-10 | UPC_CFI_280/2025 | Munich CD | Revocation Action | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Central Division Munich (judge-rapporteur Kupecz) issued an order following the interim conference in the Wirplast v Vilpe revocation action concerning EP 2 649 380, permitting the defendant to re-order its auxiliary requests and setting procedural deadlines. |
| 2025-10-07 | UPC_CFI_216/2024 | Brussels LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Vergleich | The Brussels Local Division confirmed the settlement (dadingsovereenkomst) between Cretes NV and Hyler BV in the infringement action and counterclaim for revocation proceedings, and ordered partial reimbursement of court fees under R. 370(9)(c) and (e) RoP. |
| 2025-10-01 | UPC_CFI_712/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division (judge-rapporteur Dr. Schumacher) issued a confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP in the infringement proceedings brought by F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG and Roche Diabetes Care GmbH against A. Menarini Diagnostics entities concerning EP 1 962 668 B1 (glucose sensor). |
| 2025-09-01 | UPC_CFI_848/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Nur prozessual | Procedural order from Munich Local Division dated 1 September 2025 granting KNAPP Smart Solutions GmbH's application for a 6-day extension of the deadline for its reply to the defence and the response to the counterclaim for revocation (including any patent amendment application) to 9 September 2025. The extension was justified by mutual vacation absences among involved persons and consented to by the defendant Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH. The order notes that irregularities in the CMS upload dates caused uncertainty about the exact deadline. |
| 2025-08-29 | UPC_CFI_500/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 360 | — | Nur Kosten | Mannheim Local Division declared the provisional measures proceedings against Blankenhorn GmbH (defendant 2) terminated due to both parties agreeing the matter was resolved, and ordered Blankenhorn to bear the costs of that part of the proceedings. The Court found that Blankenhorn had not formally submitted to the claims before the application was served, and therefore bears costs. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_33511/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division ruled on Taylor Wessing LLP's application for access to written pleadings and evidence under Rule 262.1(b) RoP in NEC Corporation's infringement action against TCL entities concerning EP 2 645 714. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_CFI_362/2025 | Paris LD | Generic application | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Paris Local Division granted a three-week extension to Vivo entities for filing their Preliminary Objection and Statement of Defence in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action concerning EP 3 407 524, following the delay caused by confidentiality proceedings and the parties' voluntary agreement to grant access to unredacted files. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_CFI_248/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | — | Nur prozessual | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order in Huawei's infringement action against MediaTek entities (Dimensity-series 5G chips, EP 3 905 840 B1) concerning a confidentiality protection application (R. 262A RoP) in relation to a request for production of licence agreements (R. 190 RoP). The order dealt with the treatment of confidential information submitted alongside a FRAND/compulsory licence antitrust defence. |
| 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. |
| 2025-08-06 | UPC_CFI_195/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | — | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division granted the claimants' request to stay infringement proceedings (and the related counterclaim for revocation) concerning EP 4 252 857 pending the outcome of the appeal against the first-instance decision in related case UPC_CFI_505/2024 (concerning EP 3 536 712). The court found that both cases involve the same factual and legal infringement questions and that a stay serves efficient use of judicial and party resources. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_CFI_519/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Düsseldorf Local Division issued a procedural order on the handling of multiple related infringement actions and counterclaims for revocation concerning three patents, deciding on the approach under Art. 33(3)(a) UPCA before close of written procedure. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_CFI_54/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Nichtig erklärt | Munich Local Division found that European Patent 2 391 947 (Headwater, relating to Android device network management) is invalid in all forms including as amended. The panel cancelled the second oral hearing planned for September 2025, indicating the patent was found invalid both as granted and in all amended forms proposed by Headwater. The infringement action was therefore dismissed. |
| 2025-07-21 | UPC_CFI_361/2025 | Paris LD | Application RoP262A | Prozessual | Nur prozessual | Procedural order on Sun Patent Trust's application for confidentiality protection (Rules 262.2 and 262A RoP) of highly confidential information in its infringement action against Vivo. The court set conditions for access by Vivo's representatives and named in-house employees to the unredacted statement of claim, rejecting certain overly restrictive constraints proposed by the claimant. |
| 2025-06-16 | UPC_CFI_140/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Infringement Action | — | Verletzt | Decision of the Düsseldorf Local Division finding that Curio Bioscience infringes EP 2 697 391 B1 owned by 10x Genomics. The court ordered: (A) cessation of the infringing acts in UPC member states; (B) recall from distribution channels; (C) permanent removal from distribution channels; (D) rendering of accounts; (E) damages for acts after 30 November 2019; (F) periodic penalty payments of up to EUR 100,000 per day. The action was dismissed in other respects. Costs: borne 30% by claimant, 70% by defendant. Value in dispute set at EUR 3,000,000; ceiling for recoverable representation costs EUR 400,000. |
| 2025-05-27 | UPC_CFI_11/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | — | Nur prozessual | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a rectification order (R. 353 RoP) correcting obvious errors in the operative part of the decision issued on 8 May 2025 in the infringement action by Grundfos Holding A/S against Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump Co., Ltd. concerning EP 2 778 423 B1. The corrections addressed typographical cross-referencing errors in the accounting and rendering of accounts obligations. The defendant did not oppose the rectification. |
| 2025-05-13 | UPC_APP_45185/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Kosten | Nur Kosten | Düsseldorf Local Division determined costs in UPC_CFI_7/2023 (Franz Kaldewei GmbH & Co. KG v Bette GmbH & Co. KG, first-ever UPC decision on the merits). The court ordered Bette (the unsuccessful defendant) to reimburse Kaldewei EUR 84,950 in total costs, rejecting Bette's challenge to the reasonableness of the amount. The court noted the extra effort required for the first substantive UPC decision as a justification for higher costs. |
| 2025-05-02 | UPC_CFI_131/2025 | Brussels LD | Application For Costs | Kosten | Nur Kosten | Provisional Procedural Order IV in the costs proceedings brought by OrthoApnea S.L. and Vivisol B BV against an anonymised defendant. The Judge-Rapporteur suspended the costs proceedings pending the outcome of the defendant's appeal against the merits decision (UPC_CFI_376/2023 / UPC_CoA) on grounds of fairness, since the costs outcome depends on the appeal outcome. |
| 2025-05-02 | UPC_CFI_131/2025 | Brussels LD | Application For Costs | Kosten | Nur Kosten | The Brussels Local Division (judge-rapporteur Samuel Granata, in Dutch) issued Provisional Procedural Order IV, suspending the costs proceedings (ACT_7974/2025, requesting EUR 92,814.62 in costs from the anonymised defendant) pending the Court of Appeal's decision on the merits of the underlying dispute. The order instructs the successful party to notify the judge-rapporteur of the outcome once the Court of Appeal has decided, so that a final costs decision can be rendered. |
| 2025-04-18 | UPC_CFI_526/2024 | Munich CD | Generic Order | — | Nur prozessual | Case management order in a revocation action. The court noted the written pleadings have been exchanged and set the further procedural steps. The claimant seeks full revocation of EP 3 767 151; the defendant seeks dismissal and, in the alternative, maintenance of the patent in amended form across 80 auxiliary requests. |
| 2025-04-09 | UPC_CFI_846/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Nur prozessual | Procedural order on applications by BioNTech and Pfizer defendants for security for costs of EUR 5,000,000 each (total EUR 10,000,000) against Claimant Promosome LLC under Rule 158 RoP. The court considered whether Promosome's financial position gave legitimate and real concern that a costs order would not be recoverable. |
| 2025-04-03 | UPC_CFI_846/2024 | Munich LD | Procedural Order | — | Nur prozessual | Procedural order on defendants' application (Rule 190 RoP) for production of detailed experimental materials and raw data underlying an expert report submitted by the claimant. The court ordered disclosure of additional supporting data and methodology to enable the defendants to assess the accuracy and reliability of the claimant's test results. |
| 2025-03-03 | UPC_CFI_54/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Nur prozessual | Procedural order issued by the Munich Local Division following the Interim Conference of 28 February 2025 in two consolidated infringement actions by Headwater Research LLC against Samsung. The order addressed procedural matters including inadmissibility of Samsung's invalidity attack under Art. 138(1)(e) EPC, the standing-to-sue issue, treatment of a witness statement, and admissibility of late-filed documents ZP8-ZP9. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |
| 2025-01-28 | UPC_CFI_421/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | — | Vergleich | Decision from Munich Local Division dated 28 January 2025 permitting withdrawal of the patent infringement action filed by Qualcomm against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and related entities. The withdrawal followed a settlement between Qualcomm and Defendant 1 (Transsion). The court allowed 60% reimbursement of court fees pursuant to R. 370.9(b)(i) RoP, as the withdrawal occurred before closure of the written procedure. Defendants 1–4 consented to withdrawal; Defendant 6 did not comment. No cost order was required. |
| 2025-01-17 | UPC_CFI_487/2023 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | — | Vergleich | The Munich Local Division confirmed the withdrawal of NEC Corporation's patent infringement action against TCL entities concerning EP 2 645 714. The parties had reached a contractual agreement before closure of the written procedure. The court granted the withdrawal and ordered 60% reimbursement of court fees to the claimant. Each party bears its own costs; no cost decision was issued. |
| 2025-01-17 | UPC_CFI_376/2023 | Brussels LD | Infringement Action | — | Nicht verletzt | Decision on the merits by the Brussels Local Division (full panel) in an infringement action concerning a patent on a medical device (sleep apnea treatment). The court dismissed both the literal infringement claim and the infringement-by-equivalence claim against OrthoApnea S.L. and Vivisol B BV. On literal infringement, the court interpreted the patent claims in light of the claim as a whole and found the accused products did not meet all claim features. On equivalence, the court found no functional equivalence regardless of which equivalence test was applied. The court also lifted the earlier evidence-preservation order (seizure) and ordered the claimant (unnamed, anonymized) to pay the defendants' costs. A key procedural holding addressed the temporal conditions for bringing main proceedings following evidence preservation. |
| 2025-01-16 | UPC_CFI_627/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Abgewiesen | President of the UPC Court of First Instance dismissed NVIDIA's application to change the language of proceedings from German to English under Art. 49(5) UPCA and R.323 RoP. The President found that NVIDIA had not demonstrated significant impairment in organising its defence due to the German language chosen by the claimants, who are domiciled in German-speaking countries. |
| 2025-01-16 | UPC_CFI_33/2024 | Vienna LD | Infringement Action | Verletzung (Hauptsache) | Verletzt | Vienna Local Division found that Strabag Infrastructure & Safety Solutions GmbH infringed SWARCO FUTURIT's European Patent EP 2 643 717. The Court granted an injunction, recall of infringing products from distribution channels, provision of information and destruction of infringing products. Damages were referred to a separate assessment procedure. A validity defence was not considered as no counterclaim for revocation was filed. SWARCO's request to publish the judgment was rejected; Strabag and the intervener were ordered to bear costs. |
| 2025-01-13 | UPC_CFI_298/2023 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | — | Nur prozessual | Munich Local Division issued a revised order modifying a previous case management order (of 14 October 2024) to require claimant Harvard College to submit its auxiliary requests (in the application to amend the patent) within 20 days after the decision of the EPO Opposition Division, rather than at a fixed date, in light of a pending EPO opposition with oral proceedings scheduled. |