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UPC CFI 2/2023

Jun 1, 2023·EP4108782 Unitary patent · COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR ANALYTE DETECTION

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Case details
Status
Case ClosedSet aside on appeal, Mar 11, 2024
Action
Provisional measures
Category
Provisional measures
Parties
Claimants
Representatives
Respondents
Representatives
Division
Munich LD
Judges
Technology
  • Instruments
    Analysis of biological materials
  • Chemistry
    Biotechnology
Language
German
First decided
Jun 23, 2023
Last decision
Dec 5, 2023
EPO Opposition
Appealed
How this compares
The court's record for this kind of case, counted in first-instance rulings. A figure in brackets is the number of rulings a rate rests on.
Preliminary injunction grantedMedian days to first decision
All UPC54% (38/70)124
Munich LDLockedLocked
Judge Matthias ZigannLockedLocked
Judge Tobias PichlmaierLockedLocked
Judge András KupeczLockedLocked
Judge Eric EnderlinLockedLocked

At the UPC: 10x Genomics, Inc. (40 cases)·NanoString Group (21 cases)

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More cases: Munich LD·2023

Decisions
  • 2023-12-05
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division imposed a penalty payment of EUR 100,000 on NanoString Technologies entities for non-compliance with a preliminary injunction under Article 62 UPCA, clarifying that no separate enforcement order is required under Article 82(4) UPCA and that national enforcement law requirements do not apply.

    Show the legal issues (3)
    • Penalty payment for violation of provisional injunction (Art. 82(4) UPCA)
    • No separate enforcement order required
    • Rule 118.8 RoP inapplicable to Art. 62 orders
  • 2023-09-19
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division granted provisional measures to 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College against NanoString Technologies (EP 4 108 782 — spatial genomics), prohibiting NanoString from offering, selling or delivering MERSCOPE decoder probes, with penalty of up to EUR 250,000 per violation; the amount in dispute was set at EUR 7 million.

    Show the legal issues (5)
    • Provisional measures Art. 62 UPCA
    • Prima facie validity unitary patent
    • Delay in seeking provisional measures
    • Indirect patent infringement
    • Enforcement of unitary patent vs. European patent
  • 2023-09-19
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: HEADNOTES SHEET ONLY (Leitsaetze, Lokalkammer Muenchen), one page, image-only with no text layer. It states three legal principles on provisional measures under Art. 62 UPCA and contains NO operative part, no parties and no order. It is the headnote page of the 2023-09-19 provisional-measures ruling on this docket, whose two other PDFs are already extracted as preliminary_injunction_granted. The outcome fields are set to MATCH those siblings so that collapseDecisionVariants folds this variant into the same ruling; they are NOT read from the face of this document, which decides nothing.

    Show the legal issues (3)
    • preponderant likelihood sufficient for validity conviction under Art. 62 UPCA
    • unreasonable delay in seeking provisional measures runs from knowledge of infringement
    • enforcement of a non-unitary European patent is not equivalent to enforcing a unitary patent
  • 2023-07-10
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division granted a deadline extension in the 10x Genomics/Harvard v. NanoString preliminary injunction proceedings following a request by the respondent side.

    Show the legal issues (1)
    • Deadline extension Rule 9.3 RoP
  • 2023-07-06
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division issued an order under Rule 7.1 RoP determining that translations of English-language exhibits were not required in the 10x Genomics/Harvard v. NanoString preliminary injunction proceedings.

    Show the legal issues (1)
    • Translation of exhibits Rule 7.1 RoP
  • 2023-06-30
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division issued a supplementary procedural order correcting an earlier scheduling order to require that the defence include the arguments from the protective brief (Schutzschrift) in German, the language of proceedings.

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    • Language of defence
    • Protective brief (Schutzschrift)
    • Procedural correction
  • 2023-06-23
    Application for provisional measuresPublic

    Summary: The Munich Local Division issued a scheduling and briefing order for the oral hearing in 10x Genomics and Harvard's preliminary injunction application against NanoString Technologies.

    Show the legal issues (2)
    • Preliminary injunction scheduling
    • Oral hearing
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250514withdrawal PI damages request 9111-20252025-05-14Not public
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deadline extension2025-05-14Public
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deadline extension2025-05-14Public
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Time extension - Request of 10x Genomics2025-05-12Not public
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Plain-English summary

10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College obtained provisional measures against NanoString Technologies before the Munich Local Division for infringement of unitary patent EP 4108782 covering spatial genomics analyte detection methods. The court found preponderant likelihood of validity and infringement, and granted an injunction against MERSCOPE decoder probes covering both direct and indirect infringement, with EUR 250,000-per-violation penalties. In subsequent penalty proceedings, the court imposed a EUR 100,000 penalty for NanoString's failure to promptly update its website in compliance with the order, clarifying that no separate enforcement order is needed under Art. 82(4) UPCA for Art. 62 provisional measures.

Accepted arguments
What the court agreed with — by party.

  • Prima facie validity of unitary patent EP 4108782 established at preponderant likelihood standard

    ClaimantLegal basis: Art. 62 UPCA

    Note: No relevant prior art was presented by NanoString; court found preponderant likelihood of validity sufficient.

  • NanoString MERSCOPE decoder probes directly and indirectly infringe EP 4108782 (spatial genomics method patent)

    ClaimantLegal basis: Art. 62 UPCA; Art. 64 UPCA

    Note: Court found both direct infringement by applying the patented method and indirect infringement through supply of decoder probes as essential components.

  • Urgency: enforcement of European patent without unitary effect in all member states separately is not an equivalent remedy to UPC enforcement; delay assessed from when UPC enforcement became possible

    ClaimantLegal basis: Art. 62 UPCA

    Note: Court accepted that prior national enforcement steps do not amount to unreasonable delay for UPC provisional measures purposes.

Rejected arguments
What the court did not agree with — and why.

  • Applicants delayed unreasonably in seeking provisional measures

    RespondentLegal basis: Art. 62 UPCA

    Reason: Delay must be assessed from when infringement became known and from when UPC enforcement was available; prior enforcement of European patents nationally is not equivalent and does not start the delay clock for UPC measures.

Key legal principles
Doctrines and rules cited in the reasoning.
Preponderant likelihood of validity is necessary and sufficient for provisional measures under Art. 62 UPCADelay for provisional measures purposes runs from when UPC enforcement of the unitary patent became possible, not from when the patentee first became aware of infringement generallyEnforcement of national European patents piecemeal is not equivalent to UPC unitary patent enforcement; therefore prior national enforcement steps do not constitute unreasonable delayNo separate enforcement order under Art. 82(4) UPCA is required before imposing penalty for breach of Art. 62 UPCA provisional measures orderNational enforcement law requirements of contracting member states do not apply to penalty enforcement of UPC provisional measures orders

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Claim construction notes

The Munich Local Division construed claim 1 of EP 4108782 (a spatial genomics method for analyte detection using decoder probes). The court found that NanoString's MERSCOPE decoder probes fell within the claim scope for both direct and indirect infringement. The court also addressed indirect infringement, finding that decoder probes are essential components for application of the patented method.