| 2025-04-09 | UPC_APP_17158/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division considered applications by Hisense, TCL and LG defendants for separation of the infringement proceedings into three separate actions by defendant group, addressing whether confidential information disclosure justified such separation. |
| 2025-04-03 | UPC_APP_8203/2025 | Mannheim LD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | Order by Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_819/2024, 3 April 2025) dismissing preliminary objections by Hisense, TCL and LG defendants in Corning's infringement action for EP 3 296 274 (glass sheets in LCD TVs). Defendants argued as distributors they had no knowledge of the manufacturing process and that three separate infringement forms could not be tried in one action (Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA). The court rejected these arguments. |
| 2025-04-02 | UPC_APP_8316/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order addressing applications by Hisense, TCL, and LG defendants for a stay of proceedings under R. 295(m) RoP, pending the outcome of parallel proceedings against the alleged glass manufacturer (ACT_66849/2024) in the Corning v. Hisense/TCL/LG infringement action concerning EP 3 296 274. The court denied the main request for a stay, while addressing the defendants' argument that proceedings had been artificially split. |
| 2025-04-02 | UPC_CFI_365/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Infringement merits | Infringed | The Mannheim Local Division found that Kodak GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications GmbH, and Kodak Holding GmbH infringed EP 3 511 174 (relating to printing plate technology) owned by FUJIFILM. The defendants were ordered to cease infringement, provide information, destroy infringing products, recall products from commerce, and pay FUJIFILM EUR 300,000 as an interim award on legal costs. The counterclaim for revocation was dismissed. The value of the dispute was set at EUR 15,000,000. |
| 2025-04-02 | UPC_CFI_365/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division separated and ordered independent proceedings for claims and counterclaims relating to the UK national part of European patent EP 3 511 174, following the ECJ's judgment in C-339/22 (BSH Hausgeräte) regarding UPC's jurisdiction under Brussels Ia Regulation. The Court acted after awaiting the ECJ decision which was delivered after the oral hearing. |
| 2025-03-26 | UPC_APP_5154/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued an order on a third-party law firm's (AMPERSAND) application for access to case files under Rule 262.1 RoP in the Panasonic v. OPPO infringement proceedings, addressing the scope of public access to submissions and evidence. |
| 2025-03-11 | ACT_17336/2024 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division ordered a separation of proceedings under Rules 302.1, 303.2 and 340.2 RoP, splitting off claims related to Poland, Spain, Turkey, and the UK pending guidance from the ECJ (Case C-339/22) on international jurisdiction under the Brussels Ia Regulation. |
| 2025-03-11 | UPC_CFI_159/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Infringement merits | Infringed | Hurom's patent EP 2 028 981 (slow juicer) was found infringed by NUC Electronics Europe GmbH and WARMCOOK. An injunction was granted covering France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark and Romania. Defendants were ordered to pay damages (amount to be determined), provide information, destroy/recall infringing products, and pay EUR 56,000 in interim legal costs. The court also addressed the intertemporal application of UPCA substantive law to acts committed before and after 1 June 2023. Partial dismissal of remaining requests. Value in dispute set at EUR 675,000. |
| 2025-03-03 | UPC_CFI_142/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | Evidence | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division rejected an ex parte application for preservation of evidence (saisie) against an anonymous defendant for alleged infringement of an anonymous patent. The Court found the evidentiary threshold for granting the saisie was not met. This is a redacted decision with all party and patent details anonymised. |
| 2025-02-17 | UPC_CFI_440/2023 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Paris Local Division issued an interim management order following the preparatory conference (R. 105.5 RoP) in the infringement action by Seoul Viosys against Laser Components SAS and Photon Wave Co. concerning EP 3 404 726 (UV LEDs). The order summarised the key contested legal and factual issues (claim interpretation, PKB chip characteristics), fixed the case value at EUR 500,000 (rejecting the defendant's argument for EUR 250,000), and scheduled the oral hearing for 13 March 2025. |
| 2025-02-06 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Infringed | Procedural order publishing the redacted version of the substantive decision of 22 November 2024 in the infringement action (with FRAND counterclaim and invalidity counterclaim) between Panasonic Holdings Corporation and OPPO/OROPE Germany GmbH. The underlying decision (issued 22 November 2024): patent EP 2 568 724 infringed; injunction, recall, disclosure and provisional damages of EUR 250,000 ordered; invalidity counterclaim and FRAND counterclaim dismissed; defendants to bear costs; value in dispute set at over EUR 50 million. |
| 2025-02-06 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Counterclaim for revocation | Revocation merits | Infringed | The Mannheim Local Division (Judge-rapporteur Prof. Dr. Tochtermann) published the redacted version of its decision of 22 November 2024 concerning EP 2 568 724 (SEP/FRAND). The decision found infringement by OPPO and OROPE and ordered: (I) a pan-European cease and desist; (II)–(IV) recall and destruction; (V) damages liability from 17 December 2014 (for the predecessor's rights) and from 29 July 2016 (for Panasonic); (VI) EUR 250,000 preliminary damages; (VII) residual infringement claims dismissed. The counterclaim for revocation (B) was dismissed. The FRAND counterclaim (C) was dismissed. Defendants bear the costs of the proceedings. |
| 2025-02-04 | UPC_CFI_218/2023 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 265 | — | Settled | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order confirming that Panasonic Holdings Corporation (claimant) and the Xiaomi entities and related defendants had reached a settlement, resulting in the mutual withdrawal of both the infringement action and the defendants' joint counterclaim for revocation concerning EP 3 069 315. Costs were settled by agreement between the parties; no court cost decision was required. |
| 2025-02-03 | UPC_APP_67470/2024 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | The Mannheim Local Division allowed the withdrawal of both the infringement action and the revocation counterclaim by Panasonic and OPPO respectively following a settlement by the parties after the main judgment was issued; proceedings were declared closed with each party bearing its own costs. |
| 2025-01-30 | UPC_CFI_359/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | — | Procedural only | Pre-trial order of Mannheim Local Division in FUJIFILM v Kodak (EP 3 476 616) setting out preliminary views and questions from the judge-rapporteur in advance of the oral hearing. The order identifies key issues on claim construction, novelty and inventive step (prior art: WO 379, US 952, EP 452, JP 021, EP 408) and directs the parties' attention to specific technical questions requiring focused argument at the hearing. |
| 2025-01-24 | ORD_3876/2025 | Paris LD | Generic Order | motionName.jurisdictional | Dismissed | The Paris Local Division declared the revocation action brought by Photon Wave Co. Ltd. against Seoul Viosys Co. Ltd. (EP 3 404 726) inadmissible, holding that a standalone revocation action by a third-party intervener in parallel infringement proceedings was not permitted under Articles 32 and 33 UPCA where the intervener had failed to comply with mandatory time limits for filing a counterclaim for revocation. |
| 2025-01-22 | UPC_CFI_365/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a preparatory procedural order ahead of the oral hearing in a patent infringement action brought by Fujifilm against Kodak entities concerning EP 3 511 174. The order set out preliminary views and questions on contested legal and technical points, including cross-border relief for the UK, interpretation of main vs. subsidiary requests, and claim construction, without making any final substantive ruling. |
| 2025-01-10 | ACT_578697/2023 | Paris LD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Paris Local Division issued a costs decision in Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP v LAMA FRANCE (UPC_CFI_358/2023, infringement action concerning EP 2 089 230 and EP 1 737 669). Applying the prior decision of 13 November 2024 (50/50 cost split), the court rejected both parties' requests to raise the 50% ceiling on recoverable representation costs. Each party owes the other EUR 112,000 in representation costs and EUR 7,500 in court fees, resulting in a wash. No ceiling uplift was justified despite the complexity of the double-patent case. |
| 2024-12-20 | UPC_CFI_541/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | — | PI granted | Order from the Mannheim Local Division dated 20 December 2024 granting provisional measures requested by G. Pohl-Boskamp GmbH & C. KG against pharma-aktiva GmbH, ALDI SÜD, ALDI Nord, ALDI SE, and Hofer KG (Austria) for alleged infringement of EP 1 993 363 B1 (a composition for combating ectoparasites). The provisional measures order prohibits defendants from manufacturing, offering, distributing, using, importing or stocking the infringing products in Germany (defendants 1–4) and Austria (defendants 1 and 5). A penalty of EUR 100 per item non-compliance was imposed. The respondents were also ordered to surrender products in their possession. Defendants were ordered to pay a preliminary cost reimbursement of EUR 11,000 jointly. The measures are effective immediately and will lapse if Syngenta does not commence main proceedings within 31 calendar days / 20 working days from 20 December 2024. |
| 2024-12-19 | UPC_APP_66323/2024 | Paris LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Paris Local Division ruled on LAMA France's applications filed in enforcement proceedings following the main decision of 13 November 2024 against LAMA. LAMA requested a stay of enforcement pending appeal, a restricted confidentiality circle, and security. The court addressed the jurisdiction of the first instance court vs Court of Appeal to rule on a stay of enforcement during the appeal period. |
| 2024-11-22 | ACT_545551/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Infringed | The Mannheim Local Division found that Guangdong OPPO and OROPE Germany infringed Panasonic's EP 2 568 724 (radio communication patent), granted injunction, recall and other relief, while dismissing the invalidity counterclaim and the FRAND counterclaim. |
| 2024-11-22 | UPC_APP_62286/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division dismissed the defendants' application to stay or postpone the judgment-delivery hearing, confirming that the pronouncement of the decision would proceed as scheduled on 22 November 2024. |
| 2024-11-13 | UPC_CFI_358/2023 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Infringed | Final decision on the merits (in French) in the infringement action by Hewlett-Packard Development Company LP against LAMA France concerning inkjet printer cartridge technology. The Paris Local Division found that LAMA France infringed the patent in suit (a fluid ejection device patent). The court ordered: (I) patent maintained as valid (invalidity counterclaim rejected); (II) injunction against infringing cartridges; (III) corrective measures including recall from distribution channels and destruction of infringing stock; (IV) disclosure of sales information for damages calculation; (V) costs split equally between parties (50/50); provisional damages on costs rejected. Infringement established without requiring prior notice of the patent to the defendant. |
| 2024-10-20 | UPC_CFI_471/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | — | Procedural only | Procedural order on a request for disclosure of information about the configuration and coding scheme of video files (Rule 191 RoP). The court declined to order disclosure at this stage due to the uncertain validity of the patent, finding it would be disproportionate to require defendants to provide the requested technical information before validity is established. |
| 2024-09-16 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Mannheim Local Division scheduling and structuring the oral hearing in a SEP infringement action. The order confirms hearing dates and provides guidance on the structure of oral submissions, seating arrangements, and confidentiality measures. No substantive ruling on the merits. |
| 2024-07-24 | ORD_41423/2024 | Paris LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Paris Local Division issued a procedural order addressing the schedule and management of the Seoul Viosys v. Laser Components infringement action, including Photon Wave's intervention and a parallel revocation action at the Central Division. |
| 2024-07-10 | ORD_35569/2024 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order in MED-EL v Advanced Bionics (UPC_CFI_410/2023, EP 4 074 373) concerning the referral of the counterclaim for revocation and patent amendment request to the Central Division. Following a parallel central revocation action (ACT_576555/2023, UPC_CFI_338/2023) which was already near completion, the Court addressed the question of whether to refer the counterclaim and the parties' submissions on that issue. |
| 2024-07-09 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division granted an extension of deadlines for the defendants' submissions on FRAND aspects until 14 August 2024, following the conclusion of confidentiality proceedings. The extension was granted as necessary to allow for complete submissions on FRAND-related material, while taking into account that the parties were already familiar with the documents from parallel national proceedings. |
| 2024-05-06 | UPC_CFI_440/2023 | Paris LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Order of the Paris Local Division (full panel) on several procedural applications filed by Photon Wave Co. Ltd. (intervener/third party supporter of defendant Laser Components SAS) and Seoul Viosys Co. Ltd. (claimant) in an infringement action concerning EP 3 404 726. The court: (1) held that Photon Wave had not filed its revocation brief within the deadline set for the party it supports, and rejected its application for extension of that deadline; (2) rejected Photon Wave's request to change the language of proceedings from French to another language, holding that neither the nationality of a party's representative nor of the intervener justifies a language change; (3) rejected Photon Wave's request for an autonomous revocation brief on the basis that an intervener cannot develop claims contrary to those of the party it supports; (4) rejected Seoul Viosys's request for postponement of its reply deadline. |
| 2024-04-30 | UPC_CFI_218/2023 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | — | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued an order in Panasonic Holdings Corporation's infringement action against Xiaomi entities concerning EP 3 096 315, ruling on a production of licence agreements application (R. 190 RoP). The court ordered disclosure of certain licence agreements (with redactions permitted for irrelevant passages) where the parties holding those agreements had not provided valid reasons to refuse consent to production. |
| 2024-03-14 | UPC_CFI_440/2023 | Paris LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order (in French) granting Laser Components SAS an extension of the deadline for filing its Statement of Defence in the infringement action brought by Seoul Viosys. The extension was granted due to technical difficulties experienced by the third-party intervener (Photon Wave Co.) in the CMS system and the anticipated filing of a separate invalidity counterclaim requiring coordination. |
| 2024-02-27 | UPC_CFI_440/2023 | Paris LD | Generic Order | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | The Paris Local Division refused the defendant Laser Components SAS's request to change the language of proceedings from French to English (the language in which the patent was granted) in Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd v Laser Components SAS. The Court applied R. 322 RoP and Art. 49.4 UPCA, finding that while the plaintiff is Korean and chose French, the defendant is a French company based in France, and neither the representative's nationality nor a forced intervenor's nationality constitutes sufficient grounds of convenience or equity to justify a language change. The request was therefore rejected. |
| 2024-02-22 | UPC_APP_597898/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order in MED-EL v. Advanced Bionics, denying the defendants' application to refer the infringement proceedings to the Central Division and deferring the question of a stay of infringement proceedings pending parallel Central Division revocation proceedings to a later stage, after the full written procedure is complete. |
| 2024-02-14 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division established a confidentiality regime in the Panasonic v. OPPO infringement proceedings for the production of licence agreements and confidential commercial information under Rules 190/191, 262, and 262A RoP, setting out a structured multi-step process to protect trade secrets while enabling their use in the proceedings. |
| 2024-02-14 | UPC_CFI_210/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | German-language version of the Mannheim Local Division order establishing a confidentiality regime (Geheimnisschutzregime) in Panasonic v. OPPO, covering the same rules for the protection of licence agreement contents as trade secrets under Rules 190/191, 262, and 262A RoP. |
| 2023-12-18 | UPC_CFI_358/2023 | Paris LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Paris Local Division issued a procedural order in an infringement action brought by Hewlett-Packard against Lama France, addressing Lama's requests regarding access to exhibits that were unreadable via the CMS and seeking an extension of the deadline to file its statement of defence. The order dealt exclusively with case management and access to documents. |
| 2023-12-08 | UPC_CFI_219/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order addressing the validity of service of the statement of claim on Xiaomi entities domiciled in China and Hong Kong, with Panasonic Holdings arguing that service at Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH's address was effective for all group companies given their integrated corporate structure. |