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UPC CFI 301/2025

Mar 29, 2025·EP2345029 SEP · Method, computer program and device for decoding a digital audio signal

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Case details
Status
Case Closed (No infringement)
Action
Infringement
Category
Main infringement action
Parties
Claimants
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Respondents
Representatives
Division
Paris LD
Judges
Technology
  • Electrical engineering
    Computer technology
Language
English
First decided
Aug 19, 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
Paris LDLockedLocked
Judge Camille LignièresLockedLocked
Judge Carine GilletLockedLocked
Judge Margot KokkeLockedLocked
Judge Alessandro SanchiniLockedLocked

At the UPC: Orange SA (3 cases)·HMD Global Oy (14 cases)

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Decisions
  • 2026-08-19
    InfringementPublic

    Summary: The Paris Local Division found that Orange failed to prove that HMD's Android smartphones and tablets infringe EP 2 345 029 (audio decoding), because the accused USAC/FAC decoding mechanism transmits additional transition information, which falls outside the scope of claims 1 and 6 as the patent teaches avoiding such additional data transmission. The infringement action was dismissed. Because HMD's counterclaim for revocation (UPC_CFI_713/2025) was made conditional on a finding of infringement, and infringement was not found, the Court did not decide the counterclaim, the exhaustion objection, the FRAND defence, or proportionality. Orange was ordered to bear the costs of the proceedings under an agreement between the parties, so no separate costs decision was required.

    Show the legal issues (3)
    • Conditional counterclaim for revocation made contingent on a finding of infringement
    • Burden of proof of infringement
    • Claim construction of an audio transform/CELP transition decoding method (standard-essential patent, USAC)
  • 2026-04-10
    Infringement ActionPublic

    Summary: The Judge-Rapporteur allowed Orange SA to file a supplementary written response on the FRAND defence (pages 14-86 of its 17 March 2026 application) in the interests of fairness and adversarial proceedings. HMD's subsidiary request to respond further to the FRAND defence was denied. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity was made.

    Show the legal issues (4)
    • admissibility of late-filed facts and arguments under R.9.2 RoP
    • right to final reply on FRAND defence under R.36 RoP
    • fairness and adversarial proceedings principle (RoP preamble point 2)
    • scope of front-loaded procedure in FRAND defence context
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Exhibit BP 10_excerpt of HMD website smartphones DE FR and IT2025-04-08Not public
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Exhibit BP-T 5_Android 9 Compatibility Definition Document (excerpt)2025-04-08Not public
Exhibit BP 2_excerpt French patent register2025-04-08Not public
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Accepted arguments
What the court agreed with — by party.

  • A solution requiring the transmission of any additional (corrective) data to manage the transition between transform-based (FD) decoding and CELP decoding goes against the teaching of the patent and is not encompassed within the scope of claims 1 and 6, even though paragraph [0148] refers to transmitting additional transform-coded data.

    RespondentLegal basis: claim construction of EP2345029 claims 1 and 6, read in light of the description

  • It was permissible for HMD to make its counterclaim for revocation conditional on a finding of infringement, so that the Court examines infringement before validity

    RespondentLegal basis: established UPC case law on conditional counterclaims for revocation (e.g. UPC_CFI_180/2025, UPC_CFI_210/2025, UPC_CFI_414/2024, UPC_CFI_628/2024, UPC_CFI_125/2025; confirmed by CoA in UPC-CoA-40/2026, Emboline v AorticLab)
Rejected arguments
What the court did not agree with — and why.

  • The HMD smartphones and tablets running Android 9 or higher necessarily perform the claimed transition from frequency-domain (transform-based) decoding to ACELP decoding, in particular features B, C2 and C3 of claims 1 and 6, via the USAC standard's FAC mechanism

    ClaimantLegal basis: infringement of EP2345029 claims 1 and 6