UPC CFI 860/2025
Sep 15, 2025·EP2223589 · Beet enclosure with a lockable sheet metal strip
- Case details
- StatusCase Closed (Patent upheld as amended)ActionRevocationCategoryMain revocation action
- Parties
- Claimants
- LS 9 GmbHOther / unknown
Representatives- Matthias Geitz-LS-MP von Puttkammer Berngruber Loth Spuhler
Respondents- bellissa HAAS GmbHOperating co.
Representatives- Thomas Daub-Daub PartG mbB
- Thomas Adrian-Daub PartG mbB
- Division
- Milan CD
- Technology
- Mechanical engineeringOther special machines
- Language
- German
- First decided
- May 27, 2026
- Last decision
- Aug 19, 2026
| Patent revoked | Median days to first decision | |
|---|---|---|
| All UPC | 37% (34/91) | 124 |
| Milan CD | Locked | Locked |
| Judge Andrea Postiglione | Locked | Locked |
| Judge Anna-Lena Klein | Locked | Locked |
| Judge Max Tilmann | Locked | Locked |
At the UPC: LS 9 GmbH (1 case)·bellissa HAAS GmbH (8 cases)
6 other defendants litigating the same or a related patent
UPC CFI 3360/2026·UPC CoA 894/2025·UPC CFI 1187/2025·UPC CFI 778/2024·UPC CFI 338/2024 and 1 more
- 2026-08-19RevocationPublic
Summary: The Central Division (Milan) dismissed LS9's isolated revocation action in so far as EP 2 223 589 is maintained in the version amended by auxiliary request 1, with effect for Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. Both sides partly succeeded, so each bears its own costs and half the court fees.
Show the legal issues (7)
- standing in revocation actions (Art. 47(6) UPCA)
- lis pendens
- novelty
- prior use
- inventive step
- late-filed submissions
- amendment of the patent
- 2026-05-27Revocation ActionPublic
Summary: The rapporteur issued a Rule 105 procedural order following an interim hearing held on 13 May 2026. The order sets out the court's preliminary views on admissibility, the prior art attacks, and the likely success of auxiliary request 1, and directs the parties to take preparatory steps before the oral hearing scheduled for 9 July 2026.
Show the legal issues (7)
- Admissibility of revocation action (standing under Art. 47.6 UPCA)
- Lis pendens / anderweitige Rechtshängigkeit
- Admissibility of prior art filed with the reply (D6-D8) as to claims not newly introduced
- Novelty of claim 1 in light of D1 (feature 2.3.2 / purpose indication)
- Validity of auxiliary request 1 (based on dependent claim 6)
- Case value and recoverable costs
- Representation change under Rule 293 RoP
| Document title | Date | Public |
|---|---|---|
| Receipt | 2026-09-18 | Not public |
| Cover sheet | 2026-09-18 | Not public |
| Application document Applicant | 2026-09-18 | Not public |
| Publication of decision | 2026-08-19 | Not public |
| Decision | 2026-08-19 | Public |
| Case closed | 2026-08-19 | Not public |
| Oral procedure closed | 2026-08-19 | Not public |
| Decision | 2026-08-19 | Not public |
| Decision | 2026-08-19 | Not public |
| Communication | 2026-08-18 | Not public |