| 2025-09-15 | UPC_APP_20197/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of the Mannheim Local Division on a review (Rule 333 RoP) of a judge-rapporteur order requiring Total Semiconductor, LLC to provide security for costs under Rule 158 RoP in an infringement action against Texas Instruments. The full panel reviewed whether the security order was justified, considering the claimant's status as a recently incorporated US-based special purpose entity funded by third-party investors with no operative business. |
| 2025-08-28 | UPC_APP_35652/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Order on a fee reimbursement application under Rule 370.9(b)(i) RoP filed by Faro Technologies, Inc. following withdrawal of its application for provisional measures against PMT Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. The Court rejected the fee reimbursement request, holding that Rule 370.9(b)(i) RoP is not directly or analogously applicable to applications for provisional measures, only to main actions. |
| 2025-08-27 | UPC_APP_35377/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division granted an application by Samsung defendants to set a uniform (fictitious) service date and extended deadlines for all defendants in infringement proceedings brought by Eyesmatch Ltd., following agreement between the parties. |
| 2025-08-27 | UPC_APP_35089/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order on Decathlon's request to disregard submissions in the defendants' rejoinder concerning the validity of EP1697604 as granted, ruling on whether the rejoinder to the application to amend the patent may contain arguments on invalidity of the granted claims. |
| 2025-08-20 | UPC_APP_34743/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division (full panel) rejected Centripetal Limited's request for a further written pleading after defendants' rejoinder, confirming the judge-rapporteur's order that admitting a new infringement reading would necessitate an additional defendant brief incompatible with the scheduled oral hearing timetable. |
| 2025-08-19 | UPC_APP_34857/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order granting the defendants' request to extend the time period for their statement of defence and counterclaim for revocation following their access to the unredacted version of a confidential exhibit under a R.262A RoP pre-order. |
| 2025-08-08 | UPC_APP_28086/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | Panel review under Rule 333 RoP of a judge-rapporteur order (App_22065/2025) that had dismissed a defendant's application to admit a new novelty attack based on new prior art (EP 3 868 480) into the counterclaim for revocation. The order concerned whether leave to amend the counterclaim should be granted under Rule 263 RoP. |
| 2025-08-06 | UPC_APP_66435/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | The Mannheim Local Division ruled that a separate costs assessment procedure under R.150 RoP is not available for costs incurred in applications for procedural orders such as security for costs (R.158 RoP), and that such costs will instead be assessed as part of the overall costs assessment following the final decision on the merits. |
| 2025-08-06 | UPC_APP_20207/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order granting in part Hurom's R. 262A RoP application for protection of confidential information (legal fee invoices) in the cost proceedings (UPC_CFI_159/2024, UPC_CFI_336/2025) between Hurom and WARMCOOK/NUC Electronics concerning EP 2 028 981. The court granted confidentiality protection for detailed billing information but denied the requested access restriction to lawyers only, as this required party consent under R. 262A.6 RoP. |
| 2025-08-04 | UPC_APP_33935/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division extended the time period for NUC Electronics Co., Ltd. to comment on a penalty payment request by Hurom Co., Ltd. by two weeks (until 20 August 2025) in enforcement proceedings concerning EP 2 028 981. The full extension of three weeks requested by NUC was rejected. Defendant's vacation-related and logistical reasons were insufficient to justify the full extension. The extension of the comment period does not affect the defendant's obligation to provide information in due time, nor the amount of any potential penalty. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_33539/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of the Mannheim Local Division in Powermat Technologies v Anker Innovations rejecting the defendants' conditional request to stay the infringement proceedings (R. 295 RoP) pending a final decision on their FRAND counterclaim before the Munich Local Division. The court denied the stay at this stage. |
| 2025-07-29 | UPC_APP_31764/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 362 | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of the Mannheim Local Division in Malikie Innovations v Discord rejecting the defendants' request under R. 361/362 RoP that the claimant be required to appoint a domestic representative for the German national part of EP 3 716 655 pursuant to s. 25(1) German Patent Act. The court held that the UPC regime under Art. 83(1) UPCA does not require compliance with the German domestic representative requirement. |
| 2025-07-24 | ORD_33617/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Mannheim determined the value in dispute for a patent infringement action with a FRAND counterclaim by Samsung, holding that a FRAND counterclaim is not limited to the value of the infringement action and independently expands the value in dispute, as it goes beyond a mere defence. |
| 2025-07-21 | UPC_APP_32869/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Dismissed | Mannheim Local Division rejected Malikie Innovations Ltd.'s precautionary request to harmonise/extend the time period for responding to a counterclaim for revocation, filed by Discord entities in an infringement action concerning EP 3 716 655. The court found the harmonisation was unnecessary: the counterclaim was served on claimant on 10 July 2025 (not the earlier 2 July 2025 date) when the substantive content reached claimant, so the time period for the defence to the CCR runs from that date. |
| 2025-07-18 | UPC_APP_24543/2025 | Mannheim LD | Hearing | Procedural | Not infringed | Decision of the Mannheim Local Division dismissing FUJIFILM Corporation's infringement action against Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications GmbH, and Kodak Holding GmbH for the UK-validated part of EP 3 476 616. The Court found that the UPC has jurisdiction over the UK part of a European bundle patent and can assess validity as a prerequisite for infringement with inter partes effect, but that the infringement action failed on the merits (invalidity defence succeeded). The claimant bears litigation costs. |
| 2025-07-17 | UPC_APP_33041/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division rejected the request by one defendant to postpone the oral hearing in the provisional measures proceedings brought by Faro Technologies, holding that the urgency inherent in provisional measures hearings means postponement is only possible in exceptional circumstances. |
| 2025-07-17 | UPC_APP_28969/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order in enforcement proceedings following a main infringement decision of 2 April 2025. Defendants applied under Rule 262A RoP for confidentiality protection over information to be rendered in the enforcement proceedings. The court ruled on multiple interrelated applications, directing parties to coordinate enforcement-related procedural submissions. |
| 2025-07-16 | UPC_APP_32611/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Mannheim granted Samsung's request for a three-week extension of the rejoinder deadline in infringement proceedings brought by Fingon LLC, finding that the defendants had substantiated their need for more time to address new technical arguments raised in the claimant's reply, constituting a justified exceptional circumstance. |
| 2025-07-16 | UPC_APP_29027/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Dismissed | FUJIFILM Corporation's request for review of the judge-rapporteur's order rejecting its intended enforcement warning (penalty application under R. 354.4 RoP) was rejected. The panel upheld the judge-rapporteur's reasoning: no specific time periods or penalty amounts were fixed in the main decision for the destruction/recall/removal orders, and claimant should have challenged those points on appeal rather than via panel review. |
| 2025-06-27 | UPC_APP_28345/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division order (judge-rapporteur Böttcher) in infringement proceedings by Irdeto B.V. against DJI entities (SZ DJI Technology, DJI Europe B.V., DJI GmbH) and Solectric GmbH concerning EP 2 831 787. DJI Europe, DJI GmbH, and Solectric requested harmonisation and extension of the statement of defence deadline to 15 September 2025; Irdeto objected. The order likely grants a harmonised extension, given the unresolved service on Defendant 1 (China) and the reasonable case management arguments. No substantive ruling. |
| 2025-06-27 | UPC_APP_29553/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by the Mannheim Local Division judge-rapporteur granting Palo Alto Networks (defendant) a two-week extension of the deadline for its rejoinder and related filings in patent infringement proceedings brought by Centripetal Ltd. The extension was justified by the exceptional circumstance that the defendant's key technical support employee was resident in Israel and could not safely return due to flight restrictions resulting from the outbreak of hostilities in the region. |
| 2025-06-06 | UPC_APP_20490/2025 | Mannheim LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Mannheim granted Sunstar Engineering Europe leave under R.263 RoP to amend its damages claim to include profits from consumables (sealing material) and service/maintenance contracts related to allegedly infringing CeraFLOW dispensing machines, finding this a clarifying rather than substantively new claim. |
| 2025-06-06 | UPC_APP_22065/2025 | Mannheim LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division procedural order granting CeraCon GmbH's application under R. 263 RoP to amend its counterclaim for revocation by introducing a new novelty attack based on prior art document EP 3 868 480 (WO 2021/131055, a PCT/JP2019/051559 family member) against Sunstar Engineering's patent EP 4 108 413. The court found the amendment admissible: CeraCon could not reasonably have discovered the document earlier (only found via a search commissioned in late March 2025), and the amendment does not unduly prejudice Sunstar. The oral hearing remains scheduled for 10 February 2026. |
| 2025-06-02 | UPC_APP_23446/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order under Rule 262A RoP granting protection to confidential business information that the defendants were ordered to provide to the claimant as part of an information disclosure order, while an appeal against that order was pending. |
| 2025-06-02 | UPC_APP_23446/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division considered defendants' application under Rule 262A RoP for confidential treatment of sales information provided in compliance with the court's earlier infringement decision, pending the Court of Appeal's decision on suspensive effect. |
| 2025-05-22 | UPC_APP_18490/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Mannheim, on a R.333 RoP panel review, dismissed Total Semiconductor's request for a further written pleading (R.12.5, R.36 RoP), upholding the judge-rapporteur's earlier order because the claimant had failed to substantiate with sufficient particularity why an additional brief was necessary. |
| 2025-05-19 | UPC_APP_23057/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order granting Malikie Innovations Ltd's and Discord's agreed request to harmonise the time periods for filing statements of defence for both Discord Inc. and Discord Netherlands B.V. in infringement proceedings concerning EP3716655, setting a uniform deadline of 2 July 2025. |
| 2025-05-14 | UPC_APP_18494/2025 | Mannheim LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of Mannheim Local Division in Total Semiconductor LLC v Texas Instruments (EP 2 746 957) on claimant's application under R. 263 RoP for leave to amend the case to add the AM67x product as an attacked embodiment. The order addresses the parties' arguments on whether the amendment could have been made earlier. |
| 2025-05-13 | UPC_APP_20955/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of Mannheim Local Division in FUJIFILM v Kodak (EP 3 476 616) on FUJIFILM's application under R. 263 RoP for leave to amend its case. The order is a procedural decision addressing the amendment application shortly before the scheduled oral hearing of 13 May 2025. |
| 2025-05-09 | UPC_APP_22060/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division (9 May 2025) harmonised the time periods for all three ZTE defendants to file their statements of defence and counterclaims for revocation to a uniform deadline of 3 July 2025, accommodating varying service dates across the corporate group. |
| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_20478/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order setting a uniform service date of 30 April 2025 for all defendants in an infringement action concerning wireless charging technology. Defendants' counsel accepted service on behalf of all defendants, avoiding the need for service abroad and translations. Deadlines for preliminary objections and statement of defence were set accordingly. |
| 2025-04-16 | UPC_APP_15082/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_471/2023, 16 April 2025) on AYLO defendants' application under R. 9.1 RoP to introduce new evidence from US PTAB proceedings showing DISH's allegedly contradictory positions on claim features of EP 2 479 680 (streaming video technology), relevant to the UPC infringement proceedings. |
| 2025-04-04 | ORD_11176/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | Order by Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_750/2024, 4 April 2025) dismissing Samsung's preliminary objection. Samsung argued Fingon lacked material ownership to validly withdraw an opt-out and therefore the UPC lacked jurisdiction. The court held that questions of material ownership concern both jurisdiction and the merits and are not proper subjects for preliminary objections under R. 19 RoP; they must be reserved for the main proceedings. |
| 2025-04-02 | ORD_15984/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order separating proceedings with respect to the UK national part of EP 3 476 616 in the Fujifilm v. Kodak infringement action, pending the ECJ's ruling in case C-339/22 (BSH Hausgeräte) on jurisdiction under the Brussels Ia Regulation. |
| 2025-04-01 | UPC_APP_7563/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division dismissed Total Semiconductor LLC's application to file an additional written submission under R. 12.5 and R. 36 RoP in infringement proceedings against Texas Instruments (UPC_CFI_132/2024, EP 2 746 957). The Court held that the two-brief exchange framework under R. 12 RoP is intentional and that the claimant had not demonstrated that the defendants raised genuinely new points in their rejoinder that could not be addressed at the oral hearing. |
| 2024-10-20 | UPC_APP_46519/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Evidence | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division rejected DISH Technologies and Sling TV's application for an order requiring AYLO entities to produce the source code of media players used in their browser implementations, finding that the claimants had not sufficiently exhausted available self-help means of proof before seeking compelled production. |
| 2024-10-20 | UPC_APP_46521/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Evidence | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued an order on a request for disclosure of information about content delivery networks (CDNs) under R.191 RoP, in an infringement action by DISH Technologies and Sling TV against AYLO and related entities concerning indirect patent infringement of EP2479680 across multiple European territories. |
| 2024-09-10 | UPC_APP_45837/2024 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued an order on panel review under Rule 333 RoP of a time extension granted by the judge-rapporteur in the Panasonic v. Xiaomi parallel infringement proceedings concerning EP 2 568 724 and EP 2 207 270. |
| 2024-07-25 | UPC_APP_42970/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Evidence | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order permitting defendants to submit video recordings as physical exhibits on a USB stick because the file size exceeded the CMS upload limit. The order set out the procedure for submitting physical exhibits to the case management system. |
| 2024-07-22 | UPC_APP_40530/2024 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | Order by Mannheim Local Division panel (UPC_CFI_471/2023, 22 July 2024) on AYLO defendants' R. 333 RoP review application against the judge-rapporteur's confidentiality order. The panel upheld the access restrictions to technical information in the defendants' statement of defence, rejecting the claimants' request to exclude three of their designated persons from access. |
| 2024-07-03 | UPC_APP_26934/2024 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Initial confidentiality order by Mannheim Local Division judge-rapporteur (UPC_CFI_471/2023, 3 July 2024) under R. 262A RoP granting AYLO defendants' application to restrict access to technical information about their systems in the statement of defence. Access was limited to a maximum of three named persons on the claimants' side; specifically excluded are claimants' representatives in the parallel UK High Court proceedings. |