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 Settled, withdrawn, and procedural-only outcomes excluded from the denominator.
25%patentees prevail on the merits
4 merits decisions; 9 inconclusive cases excluded (small sample)
1 won · 3 lost · Insufficient prior-period data
Win rate by year
Patentee win rate by year of first decision.
- 2025: 0% (0/3)
- 2026: 100% (1/1)
Win rate by division
Top divisions by merits-decision volume.
- Mannheim LD100%(n=1)
- Munich LD0%(n=2)
- Dusseldorf LD0%(n=1)
When patentees lose, why?
Of 3 losses…
100%
Patent invalidated — 3 (100%)No infringement found — 0 (0%)
PI grant rate
—
PI grant rate (conservative)
—
Infringement rate
100%
1 infringed · 0 not infringed
Revocation rate
100%
1 revoked / partially · 0 maintained / amended
Settlement / withdrawal rate
Settled / withdrawn / dismissed as a share of all non-pending outcomes.
57% 4 / 7
Outcomes by category (detailed)
Stacked breakdown using sharper outcome enums — revocation cases split into revoked_full / revoked_partial / maintained_as_*, etc.
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When settled or withdrawn cases actually closed — relative to procedural milestones.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.
- Infringement47
- Revocation18
- Other13
- Provisional measures3
By division
PI grant rate · infringement rate · revocation rate per division (within scope).
- Dusseldorf LD27 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: —
- Mannheim LD24 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: 100%Revocation rate: —
- Hamburg LD15 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: —
- Munich LD8 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: 100%
- Copenhagen LD7 casesPI grant rate: —Infringement rate: —Revocation rate: —
Recent decisions
Most recent decisions in scope.
- 2026-02-25UPC_CFI_1927/2025Dusseldorf LDProcedural onlyDüsseldorf Local Division issued a preliminary procedural order scheduling an oral hearing in the provisional measures proceedings by Ottobock against BrainPortfolio Inc. and BrainRobotics Inc. for 22 April 2026. The order set filing deadlines for the parties' written submissions in preparation for the hearing and invited parties to notify participants. This is a case management order with no substantive ruling on the merits.
- 2026-01-30UPC_CFI_365/2023Mannheim LDoutcomeName.otherThe Mannheim Local Division confirmed the earlier imposition of penalties order of 20 January 2026 against Kodak GmbH and related entities for non-compliance with a final judgment requiring provision of financial and technical information to FUJIFILM Corporation (EP 3 511 174). The Court rejected Kodak's challenge and upheld the maximum daily penalty as justified given the extent and seriousness of the non-compliance. Leave to appeal was granted to develop UPC case law on enforcement measures.
- 2026-01-26UPC_CFI_2045/2025Mannheim LDProcedural onlyOrder of the President of the Court of First Instance granting Amazon's application under R.323 RoP to change the language of proceedings from German to English (the language in which the patent was granted). The court found that none of the defendants is based in Germany, that they all require English for internal coordination, and that the circumstances of the case and fairness under Art.49(5) UPCA justified the change.
- 2025-12-19UPC_CFI_494/2025Hamburg LDProcedural onlyHamburg Local Division procedural order on HMD Global's request for production of licence agreements (R. 190 RoP) in Fraunhofer's SEP infringement action. The Court granted partial disclosure: HMD's request regarding the AAC Patent License Agreement with a named third party (whose identity is redacted) was granted subject to a confidentiality declaration, as Fraunhofer had consented. The request regarding a second bilateral agreement was not yet ripe for determination.
- 2025-12-19UPC_CFI_494/2025Hamburg LDProcedural onlyDuplicate of the Hamburg Local Division order (19 December 2025) on HMD Global's request for production of licence agreements under R. 190 RoP in Fraunhofer's MPEG-4/AAC SEP infringement proceedings against HMD Global.
- 2025-12-12UPC_CFI_766/2025Milan LDProcedural onlyThe Milan Local Division ordered alternative service on Shenzhen Asmax Infinite Technology Co. under the Hague Service Convention after two failed service attempts (rejected by Chinese authorities due to incorrect reference to Hong Kong), applying Art. 15(2) of the Convention.
- 2025-12-09UPC_CFI_432/2025Dusseldorf LDWithdrawnThe Düsseldorf Local Division permitted Headwater Research's withdrawal of its patent infringement action against Apple entities and the corresponding withdrawal of Apple's counterclaim for revocation of EP 3 107 243, with no costs order by agreement of the parties.
- 2025-10-10UPC_CFI_688/2024Munich LDRevokedThe same Munich Local Division decision as UPC_CFI_303/2024, in the associated counterclaim proceedings: EP 3 972 309 revoked for added matter and infringement action dismissed.