| 2025-04-16 | UPC_APP_16059/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from Munich Local Division Panel 1 (Heraeus Electronics/Precious Metals v. Vibrantz GmbH, EP 3 215 288) on a time-period extension request by claimant Heraeus. The court corrected the start date of Heraeus's reply deadline to 18 March 2025 (the date the UPC representative was granted access to unredacted documents) rather than 17 March. The extension request citing confidentiality-club members' vacation was rejected: it is the free decision of members to be absent, and this cannot affect procedural deadlines. Vibrantz's request for clarification of its own deadline was addressed. |
| 2025-04-14 | ORD_17984/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division procedural order (judge-rapporteur Dr. Zigann) in an infringement action by Shanghai Jinko Green Energy Enterprise Management Co. / Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co. against LONGi and other solar energy defendants concerning EP 4 372 829 (solar panel technology), addressing service issues for defendants who had not yet appointed UPC representatives. The order sets out the service status for each defendant and takes steps to ensure proper service on unrepresented defendants (including Soltech Energy GbR, which had failed to collect a Deutsche Post notification). |
| 2025-04-14 | UPC_APP_16679/2025 | Munich LD | Notice of intention to enforce (RoP118.8) | Enforcement | Procedural only | Munich Local Division procedural order (judge-rapporteur Dr. Zigann) in a separate costs/enforcement proceedings following the Edwards Lifesciences v. Meril infringement decision of 4 April 2025 (ORD_598588/2023, UPC_CFI_501/2023, concerning EP 3 669 828). Edwards notified the court of its intention to enforce parts of that decision (R. 118.8 RoP) and requested an authentic certified paper copy. The parties agreed Meril would not request a translation; the court ordered the Registry to issue an authentic paper copy to Edwards. The parties also agreed on extended timelines for Meril to comply with specific obligations. |
| 2025-04-14 | ORD_16018/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division order (judge-rapporteur Zigann) in infringement proceedings by Jinko Solar entities against LONGi and other solar companies concerning EP 4 372 829. The order addresses service on defendants domiciled outside Germany and the EU, including follow-up steps for defendants not yet served. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |
| 2025-04-14 | UPC_APP_15498/2025 | Munich LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division order on Syngenta's application (R. 263 RoP) for leave to amend its claim in infringement proceedings concerning a pesticide patent to extend the territorial scope of its claim to Poland, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. Sumi Agro opposed the amendment. The order addresses the conditions for late amendment of claim and territorial expansion under R. 263 RoP. |
| 2025-04-11 | UPC_APP_17187/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ruled on continuation of written proceedings in the 10x Genomics v. Bruker infringement action, holding that four auxiliary requests is a reasonable number under Rule 30.1(c) RoP and authorising continuation of the written procedure following the EPO Opposition Division's decision maintaining the patent in limited form. |
| 2025-04-09 | UPC_APP_60159/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division judge-rapporteur issued a procedural order dealing with Meril's applications for cost reimbursement and confidentiality protection (R. 262A RoP) in the Edwards Lifesciences v. Meril proceedings. Following the judge-rapporteur's guidance, Meril withdrew the cost reimbursement applications. The order addressed the scope of confidentiality protection for legal fee invoices and related documents. |
| 2025-04-09 | UPC_APP_59832/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Munich Local Division in Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences concerning costs and confidentiality applications arising from a third-party access-to-file application by Erik Krahbichler (KIPA AB). Following withdrawal of Krahbichler's access application, Meril applied for a costs decision. The court dismissed Meril's costs application because a costs decision from the Central Division Paris on a related matter had already been issued, and because proceedings about access applications under R. 262.1(b) do not automatically give rise to separate costs decisions. |
| 2025-04-04 | UPC_CFI_501/2023 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Infringed | Infringement action by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation against Meril GmbH, Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd, and Meril Italy S.r.l. concerning transcatheter heart valve (Myval THV) and EP 3 669 828. The court found infringement, dismissed the invalidity counterclaim (patent valid), and ordered: injunction, recall, seizure and destruction, disclosure of sales data, provisional damages of EUR 663,000, publication of decision in five media outlets. Decision immediately and directly enforceable from date of service. Key headnotes: jurisdiction for multiple defendants with commercial relationship; problem-solution approach for inventive step; cease-and-desist without penalty clause insufficient. |
| 2025-04-02 | UPC_APP_13067/2025 | Munich LD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division rejected Ascendis Pharma's preliminary objection to jurisdiction in the infringement action brought by BioMarin Pharmaceutical concerning EP 3 175 863 (C-Type Natriuretic Peptide variants for achondroplasia treatment). The court found that the opt-out withdrawal was effective and that sufficient acts of infringement were alleged in Germany. |
| 2025-04-01 | UPC_APP_15347/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Munich Local Division in Headwater Research v Samsung (EP 2 391 947) granting Samsung's requests (with Headwater's consent) to extend the deadlines for filing comments on pending applications (application to review case management order, generic application, application to amend pleadings) from 3 April 2025 to a later date. |
| 2025-03-31 | UPC_APP_7618/2025 | Munich LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division granted JingAo Solar Co., Ltd.'s application to amend its patent claims under R. 30 RoP in response to counterclaim for revocation, clarifying that the patentee is not restricted to amending only claims directly targeted by invalidity grounds and that EPO-amended claim versions may be introduced into UPC proceedings. |
| 2025-03-20 | ORD_13670/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a one-paragraph order correcting a typographical error in a scheduling order for the oral hearing in the Adeia Guides v. Walt Disney patent infringement case concerning EP 2 793 430. |
| 2025-03-19 | UPC_APP_11680/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_146/2024, 26 March 2025) granting Medac's application to withdraw its third-party access application, ordering deletion of a confidential Sanofi letter that Medac had uploaded without authorisation, imposing the deletion costs on Medac, and issuing a formal warning to Medac's representative for negligent conduct in uploading a privileged document. The court declined to award costs in the R.262(1)(b) application. |
| 2025-03-18 | UPC_APP_12933/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Local Division Munich allowed the withdrawal of both the infringement action and the counterclaim for revocation filed by consent of both parties, terminated the proceedings, and ordered a partial refund of court fees to Scandit. No cost order was made between the parties. |
| 2025-03-18 | ACT_59975/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural scheduling order in Adeia Guides Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) B.V. et al. at Munich Local Division (EP 2 793 430). The panel decided to hear both infringement and counterclaim for revocation jointly. Interim conference set for 4 December 2025; oral hearing scheduled for 15 January 2026. Parties summoned. Written procedure to end 10 September 2025. |
| 2025-03-17 | UPC_APP_66581/2024 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Costs only | The Local Division Munich issued a combined order on a cost decision application, a confidentiality request (R.262A RoP) regarding the cost decision documents, and a request to amend pleadings (R.263 RoP), determining the scope of confidentiality protection for fee schedules and invoices in Edwards Lifesciences vs. Meril cost proceedings. |
| 2025-03-13 | UPC_CFI_665/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a scheduling order in the Adeia Guides v Walt Disney Company patent infringement proceedings (EP 2 793 430), setting dates for interim conference and oral hearing, and proceeding with both infringement action and counterclaim for revocation. |
| 2025-03-11 | UPC_CFI_201/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Procedural only | Order from Munich Local Division dated 11 March 2025 on procedural matters arising from a preliminary injunction dispute between Syngenta and Sumi Agro. The panel upheld the judge-rapporteur's earlier order dismissing Sumi Agro's application to revoke provisional measures (which had been granted on 27 August 2024). The panel held that Syngenta had filed and paid court fees for the main proceedings in time to satisfy R. 213(1) and R. 15(2) RoP, confirming that payment does not require receipt by the court before the deadline, only that the fee was paid. Syngenta's application for re-establishment of rights was also dismissed as unfounded. Leave to appeal was granted given the fundamental interpretive issues involved. |
| 2025-03-03 | UPC_CFI_54/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Procedural only | Procedural order issued by the Munich Local Division following the Interim Conference of 28 February 2025 in two consolidated infringement actions by Headwater Research LLC against Samsung. The order addressed procedural matters including inadmissibility of Samsung's invalidity attack under Art. 138(1)(e) EPC, the standing-to-sue issue, treatment of a witness statement, and admissibility of late-filed documents ZP8-ZP9. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |
| 2025-02-26 | UPC_APP_2369/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 362 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a corrective order amending the operative part of a prior decision to reflect the substitution of the party in the revocation counterclaim proceedings, and deferred ruling on an application to bar proceedings under Rule 362 RoP until the main hearing. |
| 2025-02-26 | ORD_9486/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Munich Local Division in infringement and revocation counterclaim proceedings concerning a metal sintering preparation patent. The order addresses: (1) correction of a prior order of 2 December 2024 by adding an operative clause ordering the substitution of the counter-claimant in the revocation proceedings from Heraeus Precious Metals to Heraeus Electronics; (2) request for review by the panel under R. 333 RoP; and (3) a claimant application regarding the counterclaim under R. 362 RoP concerning the German designation of the patent. |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_608/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division panel reviewed the judge-rapporteur's decision to grant only 40% court fee reimbursement (rather than 60% sought by Panasonic) following settlement-based withdrawal of the infringement actions and counterclaims. |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_619/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Costs only | Munich Local Division panel order reviewing (R. 333 RoP) the judge-rapporteur's earlier decision to refund only 40% of court fees following withdrawal of infringement actions and counterclaims (after out-of-court settlement) in patent proceedings by Panasonic Holdings Corporation against Xiaomi entities (UPC_CFI_220/2023) and Guangdong OPPO Mobile (UPC_CFI_221/2023) concerning EP 3 024 163. Panasonic argued a 60% refund was due. The panel confirmed the 40% refund rate, finding the withdrawals occurred after closure of the written procedure (R. 370.9(b)(ii) RoP). |
| 2025-02-25 | UPC_APP_516/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Settled | Munich Local Division order reviewing (under R. 333 RoP) an earlier order that granted only 40% court fee reimbursement following the parties' settlement and mutual withdrawal of infringement action and revocation counterclaims. The parties had agreed on settlement in late 2024 after intensive proceedings in a complex SEP case (OPPO vs Panasonic re EP 2 197 132). The claimant challenged the 40% reimbursement, arguing that 60% should apply, contending the case qualified as exceptional under R. 370.9(e) RoP given the extraordinary amount of work the court had performed (far above average). The order addresses what constitutes an 'exceptional case' permitting reduction of the standard fee refund schedule. |
| 2025-02-24 | UPC_APP_7141/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order following an interim conference in the Hand Held Products v. Scandit infringement action, addressing issues including partial withdrawal of claims for direct infringement, Rule 36 requests, and workflow obligations under the case management system. |
| 2025-02-19 | UPC_APP_5727/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | The Munich Local Division granted Dyson Technology Limited's withdrawal of its infringement action and SharkNinja's withdrawal of its counterclaim for revocation following an out-of-court settlement, with 60% of court fees to be reimbursed to each withdrawing party and no cost applications to be filed. |
| 2025-02-19 | UPC_CFI_322/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | — | Settled | The Munich Local Division declared both the infringement action (by Dyson Technology Limited against SharkNinja Europe Limited and SharkNinja Germany GmbH concerning EP 2 043 492) and the defendants' counterclaim for revocation closed, following an out-of-court settlement. Dyson withdrew the infringement claim and SharkNinja withdrew the revocation counterclaim, both waiving their respective claims. Each party was ordered to receive 60% reimbursement of the relevant court fees. |
| 2025-02-19 | UPC_CFI_156/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | — | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division granted Chainzone Technology's application for access to the court file under Rule 262.1(b) RoP in evidence-preservation proceedings. Access was granted following SWARCO's lack of objection, noting that Chainzone had been admitted as an intervener in parallel proceedings before the Vienna Local Division. |
| 2025-02-19 | UPC_CFI_156/2024 | Munich LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | — | Procedural only | Order of the Munich Local Division (full panel) in evidence-preservation proceedings brought by SWARCO FUTURIT Verkehrssignalsysteme against Yunex GmbH concerning EP 2 643 717 (traffic signal systems). Following resolution of the evidence-preservation application, the court addressed procedural questions: (1) Rule 360 RoP applies by analogy to evidence-preservation proceedings; (2) Rule 198.1 RoP applies by analogy in cases of resolution of an evidence-preservation application; (3) costs are reserved for the main proceedings. The order also addressed standards for specific and substantiated denial of facts (Regel 171.2 and 284 RoP). |
| 2025-02-17 | UPC_APP_66551/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division rejected Meril's application for rectification of an infringement decision (ORD_598479/2023) under R. 353 RoP, finding that the alleged inaccuracies in the statement of facts did not constitute clerical errors or obvious slips warranting correction. |
| 2025-02-12 | ACT_53813/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural scheduling order in Syngenta Limited v Sumi Agro Europe Limited and Sumi Agro Limited (UPC_CFI_566/2024, EP 2 152 073), setting the interim conference for 6 October 2025 and the oral hearing for 10 December 2025. The Court also requested the assignment of a technically qualified judge and invited Syngenta to submit observations on case management. |
| 2025-02-10 | UPC_CFI_640/2024 | Munich LD | Application For Costs | — | Costs only | Decision of the Munich Local Division on a costs assessment (Kostenfestsetzung) following withdrawal of an application for provisional measures by SSAB Europe Oy and SSAB Swedish Steel GmbH against Tiroler Rohre GmbH after the oral hearing. The first-instance court had previously ordered Tiroler Rohre (the unsuccessful PI applicant) to bear costs including preparation of the protective brief. The costs decision addressed the reasonableness of hours billed by claimants' legal representatives, making deductions for excessive time entries across multiple tasks (protective brief, main PI proceedings, e-mail correspondence). Allowable costs were calculated for one attorney-at-law, one patent attorney, and a second patent attorney. |
| 2025-02-05 | ACT_597277/2023 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a scheduling order summoning the parties to the oral hearing on 11 February 2025 in the infringement action (with counterclaim for revocation) brought by Edwards Lifesciences against Meril entities concerning EP 3 669 828. |
| 2025-01-30 | UPC_APP_4703/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Munich Local Division (presiding judge Zigann) granting Disney defendants' request to set a uniform deadline of 11 March 2025 for filing the Statement of Defence with Counterclaim for Revocation for all three Disney defendants in Adeia Guides Inc.'s infringement action concerning EP 2 793 430. The request was agreed between the parties, with Defendants accepting virtual service of the Statement of Claim, and was justified by the substantial workload from parallel proceedings and upcoming business travel. |
| 2025-01-27 | ORD_4350/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division (27 January 2025) procedural order deciding that the panel will hear the infringement action and the counterclaim for revocation together, and requesting assignment of a technically qualified judge. |
| 2025-01-27 | UPC_CFI_302/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Munich Local Division dated 27 January 2025 issued by the judge-rapporteur setting the timetable for infringement proceedings brought by Lenovo (Singapore) against ASUSTek Computer Inc. and related entities regarding EP 3 682 587. The order schedules an interim conference via videoconference on 25 September 2025 and an oral hearing in person in Munich on 19 November 2025. |
| 2025-01-27 | UPC_CFI_244/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | — | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ordered a small company (claimant in infringement proceedings, Snowpixie Co., Ltd.) to provide security for costs under Rule 158 RoP based on its operating losses and insufficient assets. The court reduced the security amount to reflect equity principles ensuring effective access to justice. The court also denied legal aid (Prozesskostenhilfe) to the claimant, finding it had sufficient resources given it was supported by a litigation funder. |
| 2025-01-27 | UPC_CFI_244/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | — | Procedural only | Procedural order requiring SnowPixie Co., Ltd. (defendant/applicant) to provide security for costs pursuant to Rule 158 RoP, in an amount below the EUR 260,000 demanded by the opposing party (claimant), taking into account SnowPixie's status as a small enterprise and equity considerations. The application for legal aid (Prozesskostenhilfe) was rejected. |
| 2025-01-27 | UPC_CFI_52/2023 | Munich LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order (in German) granting patent attorney Christian Läufer of Fuchs Patentanwälte access to the written submissions and exhibits of the counterclaim for revocation proceedings (CC_581177/2023) in the case of Avago Technologies v Tesla, for professional/educational purposes. Neither party opposed. Access limited to the revocation counterclaim workflow. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_66588/2024 | Munich LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order dealing with Samsung's application challenging Headwater Research's standing and patent ownership, and Headwater's applications to revoke earlier orders and amend its pleadings. |
| 2025-01-24 | ACT_13227/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_114/2024 and UPC_CFI_448/2024) rescheduling the interim conference between Heraeus Electronics and Vibrantz concerning EP 3 215 288 from 23 May 2025 to 28 May 2025 due to a scheduling conflict, while confirming the oral hearing date of 1 July 2025. |
| 2025-01-23 | UPC_APP_2875/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Costs | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division dismissed Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd.'s application to partially stay cost-assessment proceedings pending the outcome of a Court of Appeal case, finding that R. 295(d) RoP allows only a full stay at the joint request of both parties and does not authorise a partial stay. |
| 2025-01-23 | UPC_APP_2876/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Costs | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ordered a stay of cost decision proceedings (App_66577/2024) and confidentiality protection proceedings (App_66581/2024) pending a decision by the Court of Appeal in APL_1926/2025, at the joint request of the parties. The stay did not extend to the costs of representation element of the cost application. |
| 2025-01-23 | UPC_APP_3108/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Costs | Procedural only | Munich Local Division procedural order (judge-rapporteur Dr. Zigann) granting Meril's application to extend the deadline for commenting on Edwards Lifesciences Corporation's costs application (App_66577/2024) until after the judge-rapporteur decides on Edwards's confidentiality application (App_66581/2024). The extension was granted under R. 9.3(a) RoP given the exceptional circumstances: Meril cannot properly assess the redacted cost application until confidentiality is resolved. This follows the final merits decision of 15 November 2024 in the main Edwards v. Meril infringement case (UPC_CFI_15/2023). |
| 2025-01-23 | ORD_3866/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Costs | Procedural only | Munich Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Dr. Zigann) issued a procedural order in the costs determination proceedings of Edwards Lifesciences v Meril (UPC_CFI_815/2024, infringement action previously resolved). The order invited Edwards to comment within 10 days on the proposed confidentiality arrangement (Rule 262A/262.2 RoP) for the costs application, indicating that Meril would likely be given unlimited access to the costs documents under Rule 262.2 RoP (protection against third parties only). Various stay applications were addressed in separate orders. |
| 2025-01-22 | ORD_3577/2025 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a case-management order following a preliminary interim conference in Sanofi's infringement actions (four separate cases) against multiple generic-drug defendants (Accord, STADA, Dr. Reddy's, Zentiva), setting the value of infringement claims and counterclaims, directing Sanofi to remedy formal deficiencies in its pleadings, and waiving all other outstanding deadlines pending clarification. |
| 2025-01-21 | UPC_APP_64021/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Munich held that where formal service of the provisional measures application under R.274 RoP was impossible, a subsequent decision by default need not be re-attempted under R.274 before proceeding to an order under R.275.2 RoP, in order to preserve the right to effective judicial protection. |
| 2025-01-21 | UPC_APP_64978/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division order on service of a decision by default on a Chinese defendant (Guangzhou Aiyun Yanwu Technology) in provisional measures proceedings brought by air up group GmbH. Service under R. 274 RoP via the Hague Service Convention through Chinese authorities had failed after more than six months (Chinese authority seriously and definitively refusing to process the service). The court held that (1) service rules must be interpreted in accordance with effective legal protection principles, so it must always be possible to establish good service under R. 275.2 RoP; (2) where R. 274 service has failed for the original application, there is no need to attempt R. 274 service again for the subsequent default decision before ordering alternative service under R. 275.2 RoP. |
| 2025-01-17 | UPC_APP_907/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop305 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order in multiple related infringement actions by Sanofi against various generic manufacturers (Accord, STADA, Dr. Reddy's, Zentiva) concerning EP 2 493 466. The order addressed the substitution of Sanofi Mature IP by Sanofi SA as new patent proprietor following Sanofi Mature IP's dissolution, and the consequential procedural steps under R. 310 RoP. |