| 2026-01-05 | UPC_CFI_730/2025 | Hamburg LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | Hamburg Local Division cost assessment decision in the Nera Innovations v. Xiaomi proceedings. The Court determined the reimbursable costs for appeal proceedings under R. 220.2 RoP, holding that: (1) two authorised representatives are generally permissible but not necessary in R. 220.2 appeal on specific procedural issue; (2) the ceiling for reimbursable costs for main proceedings does not apply to R. 220.2 appeals on sub-issues; (3) travel expenses for at least one natural person are always reimbursable; and (4) even a successful party must generally bear its own costs in cost assessment proceedings. |
| 2026-01-05 | UPC_CFI_730/2025 | Hamburg LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | Duplicate of the Hamburg Local Division cost assessment decision (5 January 2026) in the Nera Innovations v. Xiaomi proceedings (UPC_CFI_730/2025), determining reimbursable costs for R. 220.2 RoP appeal proceedings on service of statement of claim. |
| 2025-12-05 | UPC_CFI_492/2024 | Copenhagen LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | Evidence | outcomeName.other | The Copenhagen Local Division (in Danish) imposed penalty payments of EUR 67,500 on HGSystem ApS and associated entities for delayed compliance with a preservation of evidence order in proceedings concerning EP 4 238 202 B1. The defendants had failed to provide access codes and login information for financial systems, email accounts, and a seized computer for 36 days. The Court found penalties of EUR 5,000 per day appropriate for the first 18-day period and EUR 2,500 per day for the subsequent 18 days, acknowledging that penalties also serve a punitive function even where the obligation has since been fulfilled. Costs deferred to the main proceedings. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_34702/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division judge-rapporteur refused HMD Global's application for a one-month extension of the deadline to file its defence in SEP infringement proceedings brought by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, finding that the complexity of the case and concurrent vacation period did not justify an extension. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_CFI_40/2025 | Hamburg LD | Application For Costs | — | Costs only | Decision of Hamburg Local Division in Samsung Bioepis NL B.V. v Alexion Pharmaceuticals (EP 3 167 888) assessing the costs of appeal proceedings following the Court of Appeal's rejection (20 December 2024) of Alexion's appeal against the dismissal of its application for provisional measures against Samsung Bioepis' Epysqli biosimilar. The court allowed the costs for UPC representatives and patent attorneys but reduced costs claimed for UK solicitors whose involvement (at higher cost than the actual UPC representatives) was not demonstrated to be necessary. |
| 2025-08-01 | UPC_APP_43786/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Hamburg Local Division (1 August 2025) issued a costs decision following the dismissal of Alexion Pharmaceuticals' provisional measures application against Samsung Bioepis. The court assessed Samsung Bioepis' recoverable litigation costs, disallowing the costs of two UK solicitors as disproportionate but allowing the costs of the private expert Prof. Kontermann and reasonable travel expenses. |
| 2025-06-26 | UPC_APP_26135/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division granted a stay of proceedings under Rule 311 RoP following the bankruptcy of defendants Easee B.V. and Easee Holding B.V., suspended the security for costs obligation for all defendants during the stay, and held that the court's power to revoke the security order was suspended pending an appeal. |
| 2025-06-02 | UPC_APP_15203/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division granted reinstatement of the missed deadline (Wiedereinsetzung) to the claimant Lionra Technologies Ltd. for filing a cost-assessment application under R. 151 RoP, after a reliable employee in the representatives' office overlooked the deadline despite an adequate four-eyes monitoring system. |
| 2025-05-09 | UPC_APP_18705/2025 | Hamburg LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | Order by Hamburg Local Division (UPC_CFI_429/2024, 9 May 2025) dismissing defendants' (Chint/Astronergy) panel review application under R. 333 RoP against refusal to order claimant JingAo Solar to provide security for costs. The panel upheld the rapporteur's order: defendants failed to substantiate a legitimate concern about unenforceability of a cost order against the Chinese claimant, notwithstanding a conflicting order in parallel Munich LD proceedings. |
| 2025-04-28 | UPC_APP_17575/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division judge-rapporteur rejected Xiaomi's application to disregard certain submissions by Nera Innovations on patentability of auxiliary requests in its reply on the patent amendment application, holding that the submissions were a permissible deepening of earlier arguments and not late-filed new matter. |
| 2025-03-03 | UPC_CFI_492/2024 | Copenhagen LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | Evidence | Procedural only | Order by the Copenhagen Local Division in preservation of evidence proceedings. The court ruled that the supplementary IT expert report from the evidence preservation procedure may be disclosed to the parties' representatives under confidentiality obligations. The court declined to impose penalty payments at that stage. Costs deferred to main proceedings. |
| 2024-12-20 | UPC_APP_62866/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division rejected Harvard/10x Genomics' request to file a further auxiliary request to amend the patent, finding the application was filed approximately three months after the reason for amendment arose and would risk delaying proceedings. |
| 2024-11-19 | UPC_APP_53752/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division judge-rapporteur issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP, granting limited access to a partially-redacted patent transfer agreement to the defendants' legal representatives and named in-house counsel, while restricting access to in-house counsel responsible for technical (rather than legal) analysis. |
| 2024-11-19 | UPC_APP_53752/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division issued a confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP in Daedalus Prime LLC's infringement action against Xiaomi, classifying information about the patent transfer agreement as confidential and restricting in-house access to designated lead legal counsel only. |
| 2024-11-18 | UPC_APP_59463/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division issued a preliminary order granting the claimant's request to rectify the name of Defendant 1 from Nintendo of Europe AG to Nintendo of Europe SE, following a universal succession. The order also addressed the start date of deadlines for filing statements of defence. |
| 2024-10-11 | UPC_APP_51661/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division panel reviewed a confidentiality order restricting access to a statement of defence and witness statement, addressing whether two US attorneys employed by the claimant should be admitted to the confidentiality club. |
| 2024-09-17 | UPC_APP_39793/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of the Hamburg Local Division granting Powell Gilbert LLP (as a member of the public) access to written pleadings and evidence in the provisional measures proceedings (ORD_33145/2024) between Ballinno B.V. and UEFA/Kinexon concerning EP 1 944 067. The Court granted access under Rule 262.1(b) RoP, holding that as the provisional measures proceedings had terminated at first instance, the public interest in scrutinising the handling of an early and significant UPC provisional measures decision outweighed confidentiality concerns. |
| 2024-09-09 | ACT_50855/2024 | Unknown | — | Preliminary injunction | PI granted | The Hamburg Local Division granted a preliminary injunction (interim measures) to Koninklijke Philips N.V. against Shenzhen Yunding Information Technology Co., Ltd., ordering the immediate seizure of infringing oral cleaning system products at the IFA 2024 trade fair in Berlin. The order was based on alleged direct infringement of EP 3 197 316. |
| 2024-07-25 | UPC_APP_42733/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Hamburg Local Division procedural order on Xiaomi defendants' request for a two-week extension of the deadline for filing their statement of defence and any counterclaim for revocation. Xiaomi argued it needed technical information from chipmaker MediaTek about the allegedly infringing chip functions, subject to restrictive confidentiality obligations, which could not yet be obtained in time. Daedalus Prime (claimant) opposed the extension, arguing no exceptional reasons had been shown. |
| 2024-05-15 | UPC_APP_23209/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Costs only | Final order from the Hamburg Local Division (UPC_CFI_151/2024) in Ballinno's application for provisional measures against UEFA and Kinexon entities concerning EP 1 944 067. The Court addressed defendants' applications regarding: (1) allocation of a technically qualified judge — denied; (2) security for costs of EUR 200,000 — granted at EUR 56,000 (by deposit or bank guarantee), in line with the ceiling for recoverable costs for a EUR 500,000 value of proceedings; and (3) setting of the value in dispute at EUR 2,000,000 — addressed. |
| 2024-04-18 | ORD_20986/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Hamburg Local Division on the method of service of the statement of claim on Xiaomi Communications Co., Ltd., Xiaomi Inc. (both domiciled in China) and MediaTek Inc. (domiciled in Taiwan) as defendants in infringement proceedings by Daedalus Prime LLC concerning EP 2 792 100. The Court ruled that service via the German branch offices under Rule 271.5(a) RoP was not possible since the Chinese/Taiwanese defendants did not have their own place of business within the UPCA contracting member states. Service must be effected via the Hague Service Convention. |
| 2024-01-25 | no order number559935/2023 - application processed in hardcopy only (outside CMS) | Hamburg LD | Determination of damages and compensation | motionName.damages | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division panel rejected Fives ECL's application under Rule 333 RoP to have the full panel review the judge-rapporteur's decision sustaining the defendant's objection (Einspruch), finding the review application inadmissible because that type of decision by the judge-rapporteur granting an objection is not subject to panel review under Rule 333 RoP. |
| 2023-10-22 | UPC_APP_49415/2024 | Hamburg LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | Hamburg Local Division granted requests for production of documents under R.190/333 RoP in the context of an abuse of rights defence. The panel ordered claimants to produce specific internal documents relevant to an alleged abuse of rights objection raised by defendant Vizgen, including email correspondence and deposition transcripts from related US proceedings. |