UPC CFI 240/2023

At the UPC: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & CO KG (13 cases)·Himson Engineering Private Limited (6 cases)

• 2024-12-17
  Infringement ActionPublic

  Summary: Procedural order (interim conference summary) of Milan Local Division in Oerlikon Textile v Himson Engineering (EP 2 145 848). The order summarises the procedural history (evidence preservation order, infringement and revocation counterclaim), the issues discussed at the interim conference (settlement proposals, claim construction, auxiliary requests) and confirms procedural arrangements for the oral hearing. Seven auxiliary requests remain before the court.

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  • Interim conference procedure under R. 105 RoP
  • Auxiliary requests (patent amendment applications)
  • Admissibility of revocation grounds
• 2024-11-25
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  Summary: The Milan Local Division issued a case management order ahead of the oral hearing, addressing agenda items including settlement prospects, translation errors in the Italian validation of the patent, the counterclaim for revocation, auxiliary requests, and infringement evidence.

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  • Case management interim conference
  • Counterclaim for revocation scope
  • Auxiliary requests
  • Infringement evidence (video)
• 2024-09-17
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  Summary: The Milan Local Division refused Oerlikon's request to admit an eighth auxiliary request to amend EP 2 145 848 B1, finding that AR8 did not constitute an effective response to the new prior art relied upon and that it introduced an inadmissible intermediate generalisation contrary to Art. 84 EPC.

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  • admissibility of subsequent auxiliary request R.30.2 RoP
  • intermediate generalisation Art. 123(2) EPC
  • clarity Art. 84 EPC
• 2024-07-23
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  Summary: Procedural order of the Milan Local Division (in Italian) in Oerlikon Textile v Himson Engineering (EP 2 145 848) granting Oerlikon's application for a confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP over financial information provided in reply to a R. 158 RoP request. The court constituted a confidentiality club comprising only legal representatives of Himson (not the party itself), consistent with the financial sensitivity of the documents.

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  • Confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP
  • Confidentiality club – access restricted to lawyers only, excluding party itself
  • Withdrawal of document from the file as alternative
• 2023-09-27
  Infringement ActionPublic

  Summary: The Milan Local Division rejected a Rule 262.1(b) request for case file access filed by a lawyer claiming to represent Himson Engineering, holding that a lawyer who is party-affiliated (even without formal appearance) is not a 'third party' within the meaning of Rule 262.1(b) and cannot access the file before service is complete.

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  • Rule 262.1(b) RoP access request
  • Third-party status for file access
  • Pre-service access
• 2023-07-21
  Infringement ActionPublic

  Summary: The Milan Local Division ordered that the Statement of Claim be served on the defendants without transmitting copies of the approximately 2,000 pages of attached exhibits, with the claimant's prior consent.

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  • Service without exhibits
  • Procedural efficiency