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UPC CFI 251/2025

Mar 29, 2025·EP2061230 · Portable terminal, information processing apparatus and content display system

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Case details
Status
Case Closed (No infringement)
Action
Infringement
Category
Main infringement action
Parties
Claimants
Representatives
Respondents
Representatives
Division
The Hague LD
Judges
Technology
  • Electrical engineering
    Audio-visual technology · Telecommunications · Computer technology
Language
English
First decided
Dec 10, 2025
Last decision
Aug 10, 2026
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.
Infringement foundMedian days to first decision
All UPC53% (62/117)124
The Hague LDLockedLocked
Judge Edger BrinkmanLockedLocked
Judge Margot KokkeLockedLocked
Judge Stefan JohanssonLockedLocked
Judge Dennis KretschmannLockedLocked

At the UPC: Maxell, Ltd. (11 cases)·Samsung Group (57 cases)

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UPC CoA 178/2026·UPC CoA 179/2026·UPC CFI 665/2025·UPC CFI 196/2025·UPC APP 19188/2025

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Decisions
  • 2026-08-10
    InfringementPublic

    Summary: The Court dismissed Maxell's infringement action against Samsung's Galaxy devices under EP 2 061 230 and, on Samsung's counterclaim, revoked the patent in its entirety for France, Germany and the Netherlands for lack of inventive step, since the claimed combination amounted to a mere aggregation of routine, non-synergistic modifications. Maxell was ordered to pay Samsung EUR 200,000 in costs in each of the two actions.

    Show the legal issues (5)
    • inventive step / obviousness
    • aggregation of features (lack of synergistic effect)
    • auxiliary requests - progressive claim limitation
    • patent revocation
    • confidentiality under R.262.2 RoP
  • 2026-04-10
    Infringement ActionPublic

    Summary: The judge-rapporteur issued an interim conference order under R.105.5 RoP following a video conference on 10 April 2026. The order set the case values (EUR 1,500,000 for infringement; EUR 2,000,000 for counterclaim), clarified the parties' requests, excluded new invalidity attacks raised in Samsung's Rejoinder, and established a procedural timetable for narrowing invalidity attacks, auxiliary requests, and pleading at the oral hearing.

    Show the legal issues (7)
    • R.105.5 RoP interim conference order
    • Case value setting for infringement action and counterclaim
    • Clarification of parties' requests
    • Admissibility of new invalidity attacks in Samsung's Rejoinder to Application to Amend
    • De-facto FRAND defence admissibility
    • Confidentiality order under R.262.2 RoP
    • Timetable for narrowing invalidity attacks and auxiliary requests before oral hearing
  • 2025-12-10
    Infringement ActionPublic

    Summary: The Hague Local Division issued a case management order addressing Maxell's 44 conditional auxiliary requests in infringement proceedings against Samsung concerning EP 2 061 230, requesting clarification on the reasonable number of auxiliary requests per R. 30.1(c) RoP.

    Show the legal issues (3)
    • Case management (R. 9 RoP)
    • Reasonable number of auxiliary requests (R. 30.1(c) RoP)
    • Extension of deadlines
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Accepted arguments
What the court agreed with — by party.

  • A plurality of routine, non-interdependent modifications lacking a synergistic effect amounts to a mere aggregation of features and is therefore obvious

    RespondentLegal basis: inventive step (obviousness)
Rejected arguments
What the court did not agree with — and why.

  • The auxiliary requests, which progressively limit the scope of protection, render the claimed subject-matter inventive

    ClaimantLegal basis: inventive step (obviousness) - auxiliary requests