UPC CFI 364/2025

At the UPC: Belparts Group N.V. (5 cases)·IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland GmbH (2 cases)

• 2026-03-26
  Counterclaim for infringementPublic

  Summary: Decision of the Paris Central Division dated 26 March 2026 declaring the counterclaim for infringement (UPC_CFI_364/2025) closed following an out-of-court settlement between Belparts Group N.V. and IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland GmbH. This is the counterpart order to UPC_CFI_104/2025: the counterclaim for infringement by Belparts was withdrawn simultaneously with IMI's withdrawal of its revocation action following settlement. No cost decision was requested.

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  • Withdrawal of counterclaim for infringement following settlement
  • Stay of proceedings under R. 295(d) RoP
• 2025-12-18
  Counterclaim for revocationPublic

  Summary: The Central Division Paris issued a procedural order following the interim conference of 11 December 2025 in proceedings between IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland GmbH (revocation action) and Belparts Group N.V. (patent proprietor and counterclaim for infringement). The order addresses IMI's request for security for costs of EUR 500,000. The Court applied the test from the CoA decision in Chint v Jingao (July 2025): security requires a legitimate and real concern about recoverability of costs. As Belparts is seated in Belgium (EU member state), IMI had not demonstrated enforcement difficulties, and the security request appears to have been denied. The full dispositif was not captured in the available text extract.

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  • Security for costs under R.158 RoP and Art.69(4) UPCA
  • Standard for ordering security for costs
  • EU-domiciled defendant and enforcement risk
• 2025-11-03
  Revocation ActionPublic

  Summary: The Central Division Paris issued a procedural order under R. 340 RoP joining the counterclaim for revocation from the Munich Local Division to the pending revocation action before the Central Division Paris, to avoid contradictory decisions on EP 3 812 870.

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  • R. 340 RoP connection joinder of revocation and counterclaim
  • Avoiding contradictory decisions
  • Coordination between Local Division and Central Division
• 2025-09-23
  Counterclaim for infringementPublic

  Summary: Single-judge procedural order of the CD Paris judge-rapporteur on Belparts' R.340.1 RoP connection-joinder request to have the CD Paris counterclaim for infringement (CC_19180/2025, within IMI Hydronic Engineering Deutschland GmbH's revocation action ACT_6739/2025) heard together with Belparts' earlier infringement action pending before LD Munich. Rather than granting or denying the request, the judge-rapporteur is inclined to find it would not serve R.340's underlying purpose and questions whether R.340 'hearing together' can effect a referral to another division at all (citing Art. 33 UPCA and CoA UPC_CoA_106/2024), and instead invites the parties to comment and reformulate the request within 10 days.

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  • R.340.1 RoP connection joinder
  • Art. 33 UPCA competence and referral between local/central divisions
  • consolidation of a central division counterclaim for infringement with a local division infringement action