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Overview · Filed: Jul 25, 2024

UPC_CFI_433/2024

METHOD AND MEANS FOR BROWSING BY WALKING

Parent infringement case:UPC_CFI_164/2024

RevocationCounter Claim for RevocationParis CDCounter claim for revocationOral Phase
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Parties

Claimants

  • Microsoft Corporation
Reps: Tilman Müller-Stoy (Bardehle Pagenberg); Nadine Westermeyer (Bardehle Pagenberg)

Respondents

  • Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy
Reps: Petri Eskola (Backström & Co)
Judges

French-seated division — individual judges anonymized.

  • Panel member (anonymized)
  • Panel member (anonymized)
  • Panel member (anonymized)
Patents
  • EP2671173
  • EP 2 671 173
CPC codes: G06F16/951, G06F16/24578, G06Q30/0619, G06F16/9537, H04W4/02, G06F16/24575, H04W4/029

Technology area: Software & Computing · Mobile Apps/UX

Sector: Computing & AI

Outcome
RevokedRevoked in full
Filed: Jul 25, 2024
First decided: Jan 7, 2026
Language: English

Decision of the Paris Central Division (Panel 2) dated 7 January 2026 on Microsoft Corporation's counterclaim for revocation of EP 2 671 173 (mobile location-based search technology) owned by Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy. The court found the patent invalid for lack of inventive step over prior art documents BP07 and BP08. Auxiliary Requests I through further auxiliary requests were examined: Auxiliary Request I was found inadmissible or failed on added subject-matter; subsequent auxiliary requests lacked clarity or were inadmissible. The patent was thus revoked. The decision also addresses the requirements for admissible patent amendment applications under R. 30 RoP.

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Claims
At issue1, 6, 10, 12
Revokedall
Notes: EP 2 671 173 entirely revoked; claim 1 invalid for added subject-matter and lack of inventive step; Auxiliary Request I (amending claims 6, 10, 12) could not remedy defect; ARs II-XVII inadmissible.