View all cases
UPC APP 30013/2025
—
- Case details
- Status—ActionProcedural applicationCategoryOther Procedural
- Parties
- Respondents—Reps:
- Division
- Dusseldorf LD
- Judges
- Florence Butin · President of the UPC Court of First Instance
- Language
- —
- First decided
- Jul 16, 2025
Decisions
- 2025-07-16JurisdictionalGeneric application
President of the UPC Court of First Instance granted POSITEC Germany GmbH's application to change the language of proceedings to English (the patent grant language) in Düsseldorf Local Division proceedings. The order followed established case law on language change applications, found the balancing of interests favoured English, and was not conditional on translation/interpretation arrangements. Costs were to be assessed with the merits proceedings.
Legal issues:Change of language of proceedings under Art. 49(5) UPCA and Rule 323 RoPBalancing of interests in language change applications
Documents
- ECD018A7C8BC9F90A2F85B5A398B5F0F_de.pdf2025-07-16DE