Outcome base rates
What's normal — PI grant rate, infringement rate, revocation rate, settlement rate. Honest denominators using motion type.
Patentee win rate
Share of merits decisions where the patentee prevailed — infringement cases finding infringement, revocation cases upholding the patent. Settled, withdrawn, and procedural-only outcomes excluded from the denominator.
No merits decisions in the current scope.
PI grant rate
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PI grant rate (conservative)
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Infringement rate
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Revocation rate
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Settlement / withdrawal rate
Settled / withdrawn / dismissed as a share of all non-pending outcomes.
0% 0 / 2
By technology sector
Top sectors by case count (filter scope applied).
By case category
How outcome rates differ across the six L2 buckets.
- Provisional measures4
By division
PI grant rate · infringement rate · revocation rate per division (within scope).
- Mannheim LD4 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: —
Recent decisions
Most recent decisions in scope.
- 2025-12-22UPC_CFI_936/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe 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.
- 2025-11-27UPC_CFI_936/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe 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.
- 2025-08-29UPC_CFI_500/2025Mannheim LDCosts onlyMannheim 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.
- 2025-07-09UPC_CFI_445/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order addressing service of the anti-anti-suit injunction application by InterDigital against Walt Disney entities in proceedings relating to EP 2 465 265, EP 3 259 902, EP 2 080 349, and EP 2 449 782 (video coding SEPs).
- 2024-12-20UPC_CFI_541/2024Mannheim LDPI grantedOrder from the Mannheim Local Division dated 20 December 2024 granting provisional measures requested by G. Pohl-Boskamp GmbH & C. KG against pharma-aktiva GmbH, ALDI SÜD, ALDI Nord, ALDI SE, and Hofer KG (Austria) for alleged infringement of EP 1 993 363 B1 (a composition for combating ectoparasites). The provisional measures order prohibits defendants from manufacturing, offering, distributing, using, importing or stocking the infringing products in Germany (defendants 1–4) and Austria (defendants 1 and 5). A penalty of EUR 100 per item non-compliance was imposed. The respondents were also ordered to surrender products in their possession. Defendants were ordered to pay a preliminary cost reimbursement of EUR 11,000 jointly. The measures are effective immediately and will lapse if Syngenta does not commence main proceedings within 31 calendar days / 20 working days from 20 December 2024.