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UPC CFI 67/2025
Jan 29, 2025·EP3610762: DEVICE FOR TREATING A LIQUID, IN PARTICULAR MILK, WITH INTEGRATED RINSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RINSING
Parent infringement case:UPC CFI 519/2024
- Case details
- StatusInterim PhaseActionCounterclaim for revocationCategoryCounter Claim for Revocation
- Parties
- ClaimantsReps: Martin Wirtz (Boehmert & Boehmert Anwaltspartnerschaft mBB); Michal Rüberg (Boehmert & Boehmert Anwaltspartnerschaft mBB); Tarik Kapic (BOVARD Patentanwälte)RespondentsReps: Markus Gangl (self / independent (Wilhelm-Greil-Straße 16, Innsbruck))
- Division
- Dusseldorf LD
- Technology
- Consumer Goods · Kitchen Appliances · Furniture & Household
- Language
- German
- First decided
- Apr 28, 2026
Decisions
- 2026-04-28Counterclaim for revocation
The court issued a procedural case management order under Rule 332 RoP setting out directions for the parties ahead of the oral hearing. The order addressed issues of claim construction, the burden of pleading inventive step, the presentation of auxiliary requests, and set a schedule of written submissions through 19 June 2026. No substantive patent ruling was made.
Legal issues:claim construction (infringement and validity)inventive step pleading standardsequivalence (clarity of pleading)auxiliary requests format and substantiationcase management / written procedure schedule
Documents
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| Receipt | 2026-05-15 | Not public |
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| Submission Defendant | 2026-05-15 | Not public |
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| Submission Defendant | 2026-05-15 | Not public |
| Submission Defendant | 2026-05-15 | Not public |
| action.issueOrder.order | 2026-04-29 | Not public |
| Order | 2026-04-29 | Public |
| action.summons.oralHearing | 2026-03-05 | Not public |
| Summons | 2026-03-05 | Public |
| Receipt | 2026-02-20 | Not public |
| Cover sheet | 2026-02-20 | Not public |
| Submission Claimant | 2026-02-20 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2026-02-19 | Not public |
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| Submission Claimant | 2026-02-19 | Not public |
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| Submission Claimant | 2026-02-19 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2026-02-10 | Not public |
| Cover sheet | 2026-02-10 | Not public |
| Other document Claimant | 2026-02-10 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Cover sheet | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Other document Claimant | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Other document Claimant | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| action.phaseChange.interimPhaseOpen | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Other Documents | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Other Documents | 2026-02-03 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2026-01-26 | Not public |
| Cover sheet | 2026-01-26 | Not public |
| Further pleadings | 2026-01-26 | Not public |
| Panel-Appointment | 2025-09-16 | Not public |
| Hearing-Dates | 2025-08-04 | Not public |
| R. 28 RoP Anordnung | 2025-08-04 | Public |
| Hearing-Dates | 2025-08-04 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2025-07-25 | Not public |
| Urkundenvorlage | 2025-07-24 | Not public |
| Replik zur Klageerwiderung und Klageerwiderung zur Nichtigkeitswiderklage | 2025-07-24 | Not public |
| Receipt | 2025-07-23 | Not public |
| Duplik auf die Replik auf die Erwiderung der Inhaberin (Änderungsantrag) | 2025-07-23 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-06-26 | Not public |
| Rejoinder | 2025-06-25 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-05-26 | Not public |
| REPLIK AUF DIE ERWIDERUNG AUF DIE WIDERKLAGE | 2025-05-26 | Not public |
| Outcome of the Order | 2025-04-10 | Not public |
| Inkorrekter Workflow | 2025-04-10 | Public |
| Receipt | 2025-04-08 | Not public |
| Bestaetigung | 2025-04-07 | Not public |
| 96835 Antrag Geheimnisschutz | 2025-04-07 | Not public |
| Formal-checks_Notification-of-positive-outcome | 2025-03-06 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-03-06 | Not public |
| Statement to court fees and request of defendant regarding status of small enterprise | 2025-03-06 | Not public |
| Document from EPO | 2025-01-31 | Not public |
| Panel-Appointment | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| EPO-Request-for-case-pending | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Acknowledgement-of-lodging | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Formal-checks_Notification-of-positive-outcome | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Darstellung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Datenblatt | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Entgegenhaltung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
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| Bestaetigung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Ventilfotos | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
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| Zahlungsbestaetigung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Entgegenhaltung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Replik und Nichtigkeitswiderklage | 2025-01-29 | Not public |
| Entgegenhaltung | 2025-01-29 | Not public |