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 Settled, withdrawn, and procedural-only outcomes excluded from the denominator.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
—
PI grant rate (conservative)
—
Infringement rate
100%
1 infringed · 0 not infringed
Revocation rate
—
Settlement / withdrawal rate
Settled / withdrawn / dismissed as a share of all non-pending outcomes.
57% 8 / 14
Settlement timing
When settled or withdrawn cases actually closed — relative to procedural milestones.
By technology sector
Top sectors by case count (filter scope applied).
By case category
How outcome rates differ across the six L2 buckets.
- Procedural & sub-applications67
By division
PI grant rate · infringement rate · revocation rate per division (within scope).
- Dusseldorf LD67 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: 100%Revocation rate: —
Recent decisions
Most recent decisions in scope.
- 2026-01-23UPC_CFI_1325/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division issued a further order in the Van Loon v. Inverquark evidence preservation proceedings, addressing the release of the expert's detailed description and a request for a supplementary expert opinion following the Aquanale Köln inspection.
- 2025-12-19UPC_CFI_834/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division revoked an earlier ex parte evidence preservation order against Roborock, finding that Ecovacs (the applicant) had violated the duty of complete and truthful disclosure under R. 192.3 RoP, rendering the order unlawful in its entirety.
- 2025-12-19UPC_CFI_1598/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division ordered disclosure of the expert's report from the MEDICA trade fair inspection to LiNA Medical, after Schultz Medical failed to appoint a UPC representative and thus could not assert confidentiality interests before the disclosure deadline.
- 2025-11-18UPC_CFI_1598/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division granted an ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence at Schultz Medical's exhibition booth at the MEDICA trade fair in Düsseldorf, to establish whether the 'MORCELLIX' morcellator implements the claims of LiNA Medical's EP 2 593 025 B1.
- 2025-11-17UPC_CFI_1589/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division granted an ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence at the PRODUCTRONICA trade fair in Munich regarding a wire processing machine 'BZW-3005' by Jiangsu BOZHIWANG, prior to a main infringement action by Komax.
- 2025-10-30UPC_CFI_1325/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division granted an ex parte order for inspection and preservation of evidence at the Aquanale trade fair in Cologne regarding the defendants' 'InverJet' counter-current swimming device, in anticipation of a main infringement action.
- 2025-09-18ORD_29532/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyDüsseldorf Local Division (18 September 2025) stayed the proceedings against TP-Link Corporation PTE. LTD. (defendant 1) by consent of the parties pending the outcome of EPO opposition appeal proceedings (R. 295(a) RoP), extending a prior stay already in place against defendants 2–4.
- 2025-09-12UPC_APP_35497/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyThe Düsseldorf Local Division (full panel) issued a procedural order in the infringement action (with counterclaim for revocation) between TRUMPF and IPG Laser concerning EP 2 624 031. The order addressed the admissibility of new auxiliary requests filed by the claimant under R. 30.2 RoP as part of the application to amend the patent.