- 2025-09-08Procedural onlyjurisdictionalGeneric application
President of the Court of First Instance granted HMD Global Oy's application to change the language of proceedings from German to English in infringement proceedings brought by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft at the Hamburg Local Division concerning EP 2 609 590. The change was granted under Art. 49(5) UPCA on grounds of fairness: English is the dominant language in audio processing technology, HMD is a Finnish company that would face disproportionate burden litigating in German, and the Claimant as a German research institute regularly uses English. No special translation/interpretation arrangements were required.