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No merits decisions in the current scope.

• Procedural & sub-applications36

• Mannheim LD31 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: —
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• 2025-11-11UPC_CFI_879/2025Mannheim LDWithdrawnThe 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.
• 2025-10-02UPC_CFI_636/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order under R. 333 RoP reviewing the earlier rejection of Centripetal Limited's saisie application against Palo Alto Networks concerning EP 3 281 580 (network security), upholding the rejection for failure to submit sufficient facts about the infringing system.
• 2025-10-02UPC_CFI_636/2025Mannheim LDoutcomeName.otherThe Mannheim Local Division granted Palo Alto Networks' request to review and revoked the ex-parte saisie (evidence preservation) order of 3 June 2025 (amended 9 July 2025) issued in favour of Centripetal Limited concerning EP 3 281 580. The Court found that the saisie order should not have been issued because it was not apparent from the ex-ante perspective that the Munich branch office premises (a co-working sales space) contained staff with access to the technical network security system Centripetal sought to inspect. The Court held that a saisie order cannot require a defendant to increase employee access rights or bring equipment not ordinarily present at the premises. The Court also noted that Centripetal had an ongoing duty of candour to update the Court on new material facts. Confidentiality measures from the original order remained in force.
• 2025-09-11UPC_APP_33378/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe Mannheim Local Division issued a provisional order classifying certain technical information in MediaTek's defence pleading as confidential under Rule 262A RoP, restricting access to designated persons including named in-house counsel of the claimant.
• 2025-09-04UPC_APP_33309/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe Mannheim Local Division considered MediaTek Germany's application for security for legal costs from Huawei (a Chinese entity), addressing whether the enforcement of a costs order against a non-EU-resident claimant justified requiring security.
• 2025-07-25UPC_APP_32933/2025Mannheim LDDismissedThe Mannheim Local Division rejected Centripetal Limited's application for penalty payments against Palo Alto Networks for alleged non-compliance with the saisie (evidence preservation) order of 3 June 2025 (amended 9 July 2025) concerning EP 3 281 580. The Court found that Palo Alto was not obliged to provide access rights to its German branch office's sales-only staff beyond their ordinary duties, and was not required to bring hardware or increase employee access to the encrypted network security system. The premises to be inspected only contained sales and marketing personnel who had no access to the technical network system. Key holding: the inspection order does not compel a defendant to set up, bring or otherwise create access to items not ordinarily available at the inspected premises; it only requires passive toleration of inspection of what is already there.
• 2025-07-11UPC_CFI_636/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyMannheim Local Division (upon referral from Court of Appeal) granted Centripetal Limited's application for preservation of evidence (saisie) against Palo Alto Networks' network security solution for alleged infringement of EP 3 281 580 B1. An independent court expert (Prof. Dr. Christoph Krauß) was appointed to monitor and examine the defendant's systems at its premises.
• 2025-07-02UPC_APP_31707/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyThe Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order in the Corning v Hisense/TCL/LG Electronics infringement action concerning EP3296274, granting a time limit extension for the defendants to file their statements of defence.