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| Date | Case | Division | Action | Motion | Outcome | Summary |
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| 2025-02-03 | UPC_APP_1872/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Local Division Düsseldorf issued a confidentiality order under R.262A RoP, clarifying that only the party whose access is to be restricted can identify which of its persons need access, and that the opposing party claiming confidentiality must raise specific objections after that proposal. |
| 2025-02-03 | UPC_APP_67924/2024 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | Mannheim Local Division order confirming the withdrawal by consent of Panasonic Holdings Corporation's infringement action and the joint counterclaim for revocation filed by Xiaomi group entities and Odiporo GmbH / Shamrock Mobile GmbH concerning multiple patents (standard-essential patents in the mobile technology field), following an out-of-court settlement between the parties. The proceedings were declared closed in their entirety. Each party bears its own costs. The court also addressed court fee reimbursement: Panasonic must pay an additional EUR 13,400 in court fees (due to increased case value of EUR 8,000,000); defendants receive 20% reimbursement of their counterclaim fees (EUR 4,000). The case value was set at EUR 8,000,000. |
| 2025-02-03 | UPC_APP_68658/2024 | Milan CD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Dismissed | Application by STADAPHARM GmbH for public access to case documents under R.262.1(b) RoP (separate application number for the same underlying proceedings UPC_CFI_698/2024, Milan Central Division). Outcome identical to companion order: STADAPHARM's request to access documents was dismissed; NOVARTIS's request for legal cost compensation was dismissed. This appears to be the same decision issued under a different application reference number. |
| 2025-02-03 | UPC_CFI_698/2024 | Milan CD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Dismissed | Application by STADAPHARM GmbH for public access to case documents under R.262.1(b) RoP in the proceedings before the Milan Central Division was dismissed. The court found that STADAPHARM's primary purpose was to expose Novartis's defence strategy in order to facilitate a parallel national (Munich OLG) proceeding rather than to exercise legitimate public oversight. Access was denied as it would create undue pressure on Novartis and undermine the integrity of the proceedings. NOVARTIS's request for costs was also dismissed. |
| 2025-01-31 | ACT_576606/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Revoked | The Mannheim Local Division revoked EP 2 548 648 (a wood/biomass shredder patent) in its entirety for lack of inventive step across 13 UPC member states, and dismissed the infringement action as a consequence; the claimant Rematec was ordered to bear 75% of costs. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-30 | UPC_APP_3424/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Mannheim Local Division in FUJIFILM v Kodak (EP 3 511 174) granting FUJIFILM's request for simultaneous interpretation from English into Japanese at the oral hearing under R. 109.1 RoP, in order to enable the claimant's Japanese-speaking representatives to effectively participate in the proceedings and exercise their procedural rights. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-29 | UPC_APP_68468/2024 | The Hague LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Order of The Hague Local Division permitting withdrawal of the infringement action by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. against Dexcom Inc. and Dexcom International Limited, and withdrawal of the counterclaims for revocation by both defendants. All parties mutually consented. The Court also allowed claimant's request for 20% reimbursement of court fees under Rule 370.9 RoP. |
| 2025-01-29 | UPC_APP_68465/2024 | The Hague LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Order from the Hague Local Division (UPC_CFI_424/2023) declaring infringement and revocation counterclaim proceedings closed following withdrawal of all claims by all parties. Both parties jointly requested withdrawal; the court found no final decision existed and no party had a legitimate interest in a court ruling. No cost decision was requested. |
| 2025-01-29 | UPC_APP_68474/2024 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Hague Local Division order allowing withdrawal of all claims and counterclaims in infringement proceedings between Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. and Dexcom Inc. concerning EP 4 070 727. All parties requested withdrawal; the court allowed the withdrawals and ordered reimbursement of 20% of court fees to the defendant/counterclaimant Dexcom per R. 370.9. The proceedings are closed. |
| 2025-01-29 | UPC_CFI_468/2023 | Paris LD | Application Rop 365 | — | Settled | The Paris Local Division confirmed the settlement between C-KORE and NOVAWELL pursuant to Rule 365 RoP. The infringement proceedings and the counterclaim for revocation were dismissed. The details of the settlement remain confidential. No order as to costs. |
| 2025-01-28 | UPC_CFI_421/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | — | Settled | Decision from Munich Local Division dated 28 January 2025 permitting withdrawal of the patent infringement action filed by Qualcomm against Shenzhen Transsion Holdings and related entities. The withdrawal followed a settlement between Qualcomm and Defendant 1 (Transsion). The court allowed 60% reimbursement of court fees pursuant to R. 370.9(b)(i) RoP, as the withdrawal occurred before closure of the written procedure. Defendants 1–4 consented to withdrawal; Defendant 6 did not comment. No cost order was required. |
| 2025-01-28 | UPC_CFI_355/2023 | Dusseldorf LD | Infringement Action | — | Revoked | Decision of the Düsseldorf Local Division dated 28 January 2025 in infringement action by FUJIFILM Corporation against Kodak entities regarding EP 3 594 009 B1 (printing plate technology). The court rejected Kodak's preliminary objection, then upheld the counterclaim for revocation, revoking EP 3 594 009 B1 in all Contracting Member States where it has effect, on grounds including added matter (Art. 123(2) EPC) and obviousness over prior art. FUJIFILM's application to amend the patent was dismissed. As a consequence, the infringement action was also dismissed. The court confirmed jurisdiction over the UK part of the patent despite the revocation counterclaim concerning the German part, applying long-arm jurisdiction principles. Costs were ordered against the claimant. Value in dispute: EUR 15,000,000 each for infringement action and counterclaim for revocation. |
| 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_APP_2740/2025 | Unknown | — | Costs | Costs only | Procedural order by the Munich Local Division on an application for reimbursement of court fees (Rule 370.9(b)(iii) RoP) following withdrawal of an application for provisional measures by Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited. The court applied Rule 370.9(b)(iii) by analogy to provisional measures proceedings (not directly applicable as written for main actions) and ordered reimbursement of 20% of court fees, as the withdrawal occurred before completion of oral proceedings. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_68655/2024 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Court of Appeal allowed DexCom's withdrawal of its infringement action and Abbott's withdrawal of the counterclaims for revocation, declared the proceedings closed, and ordered reimbursement of 60% of DexCom's court fees; as a result the first instance decision revoking DexCom's patent became ineffective. |
| 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 | UPC_APP_63772/2024 | Milan LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Milan Local Division issued a procedural order on Dainese's application under Rule 262A RoP for confidential protection of information contained in its partial withdrawal application, granting limited access to the confidential exhibit. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_2192/2025 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Decision by Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_487/2023, 24 January 2025) permitting withdrawal of TCL defendants' counterclaims for revocation and FRAND-licence offer. 60% of court fees were reimbursed for the revocation counterclaim. The court held that court fees are payable for FRAND-licence offer counterclaims by analogy under R. 370 RoP, and that such fees had been properly paid so no full refund was warranted. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_63878/2024 | Milan LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Milan Local Division (UPC_CFI_472/2024) on Dainese's application for protection of confidential information under R. 262A RoP relating to a partial withdrawal submission. The Court ordered creation of a confidential club including at least one natural person from each party and their legal representatives, balancing confidentiality against the right to an effective defence. Access by Alpinestars/Motocard to unredacted documents was restricted to designated individuals. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_1178/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Court of Appeal Panel 2 order permitting DexCom's withdrawal of its infringement appeal and declaring the proceedings closed. Background: the Paris Local Division had revoked EP 3 831 282 (continuous glucose monitoring) and dismissed all DexCom infringement claims; DexCom appealed but then applied to withdraw the action including the appeal. The withdrawal was permitted, proceedings closed, and 60% of appeal court fees refunded to DexCom. No costs decision required. |
| 2025-01-24 | ORD_3184/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic Order | Procedural | Withdrawn | Court of Appeal order allowing withdrawal of the infringement appeal and counterclaim for revocation filed by DexCom against Abbott companies, pursuant to R. 265 RoP. The withdrawal was allowed, proceedings declared closed, and the impugned first-instance decision became ineffective. Court held that withdrawal may be filed in appeal proceedings, that withdrawal of a revocation counterclaim renders amendment requests ineffective, and that closure of proceedings renders the impugned decision ineffective. |
| 2025-01-24 | CC_49716/2024 | Munich LD | Counterclaim for revocation | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order in the infringement actions by Sanofi (and successor entities) against multiple generic pharmaceutical companies (Accord, STADA, Dr Reddy's, Zentiva) concerning EP 2 493 466 (UPC_CFI_145/2024 and related cases). The order concerns case management — identifying parties and representatives across the eight consolidated cases relating to counterclaims for revocation. |
| 2025-01-24 | UPC_APP_67889/2024 | Paris CD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Paris Central Division (sitting as CFI) dismissed the Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO (EPI)'s application for public access to written pleadings and evidence in the Suinno v Microsoft infringement proceedings (UPC_CFI_164/2024, EP 2 671 173). The Court held that the interest in protecting the integrity and independence of proceedings (particularly given the EPI's professional interest in the status of in-house European Patent Attorneys at the UPC) outweighed the access interest, as the matter raised a purely legal and general issue that did not require access to the specific case file. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-22 | ACT_1474/2025 | The Hague LD | Application for preserving evidence pursuant to RoP192 | Evidence | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division granted Mammoet Holding B.V.'s application for preserving evidence against PTS Machinery B.V., ordering an expert inspection of the defendant's premises without prior hearing to gather evidence of alleged infringement of EP 4 171 996. Security of EUR 20,000 was required. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-22 | UPC_CFI_310/2023 | Paris CD | Revocation Action | Revocation merits | Partially revoked | The Paris Central Division partially revoked EP 3 613 453 B1, finding that claim 1 lacked inventive step; the patent was maintained in amended form based on the independent validity of claims 6, 7 and 8 in combination with claim 1 as granted. Each party bore its own costs. |
| 2025-01-21 | UPC_APP_3072/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a procedural order in the Maxeon Solar v. Aiko/PowerDeal infringement action, addressing procedural matters related to the parallel cases concerning EP 3 065 184 B1 and further defendants in the solar panel technology dispute. |
| 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. |
| 2025-01-21 | UPC_APP_33375/2024 | Nordic-Baltic RD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Dismissed | Nordic-Baltic Regional Division judge-rapporteur closed proceedings following withdrawal of seven public access applications (R. 262.1(b) RoP) by the applicant (an individual acting also on behalf of SWAT Medical AB) in Edwards Lifesciences Corporation v. Meril et al. proceedings. Meril Life Sciences PVT Limited's request for cost reimbursement (EUR 17,168.70) was rejected: Art. 69 UPCA does not apply to proceedings on public access requests because (i) the Enforcement Directive's cost principle does not extend to such requests, (ii) no ceiling for recoverable costs has been set for access proceedings, and (iii) parties to the main proceedings are merely consulted, not 'parties' in the access sub-proceedings. |
| 2025-01-20 | UPC_APP_68693/2024 | Nordic-Baltic RD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Nordic-Baltic Regional Division declared the proceedings closed following the mutual withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care's infringement action and Dexcom's counterclaim for revocation (both relating to EP 3 977 921). Both parties consented to withdrawal with no cost decision requested or made. |
| 2025-01-20 | UPC_APP_283/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Costs | Dismissed | Court of Appeal dismissed SharkNinja's application for suspension of cost-determination proceedings (R. 295(d) RoP) as inadmissible, because the one-month period for filing a cost-determination application (R. 151 RoP) starts from service of the merits decision, not from service of the preliminary injunction order. Since no merits decision had yet been issued, the application was premature. The court further noted that R. 150/151 RoP apply by analogy where no main proceedings are initiated after unsuccessful provisional measures. |
| 2025-01-20 | UPC_APP_283/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Court of Appeal (Second Panel) ruled on SharkNinja's application for a stay of cost assessment proceedings and/or extension of time. The Court held that the one-month period for lodging an application for a cost decision (R. 151.1 RoP) begins with service of the decision on the merits, not with service of the provisional measures order. The cost assessment was not stayed pending the merits proceedings. |
| 2025-01-20 | UPC_APP_67911/2024 | Paris LD | Generic application | Procedural | Dismissed | Paris Local Division dismissed NJ Diffusion SARL's application for an in-person interim conference to physically examine two wigs (exhibit items) with strong lighting and photography. The court held the measure unnecessary because enlarged photographs of the wigs were already contained in the claimant's reply brief. Defendant's inadmissibility argument (wrong procedural basis) was rejected, but the substantive request failed for lack of necessity. |
| 2025-01-20 | ORD_3182/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal issued a procedural order in the Amazon v Nokia proceedings (UPC_CoA_835/2024) on Amazon's application under R. 262.2 RoP for confidential treatment of parts of its appeal pleadings. The appeal relates to Amazon's challenge to an order of the Munich Local Division that denied disclosure of unredacted documents and information. The order governs which information in the appeal and statement of grounds may be designated confidential and restricted from public access. |
| 2025-01-20 | ORD_3182/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal procedural order on Amazon's application under R. 262.2 RoP, ordering confidentiality classification of information (including licence agreement contents, RAND negotiation details, and business model information) contained in Amazon's appeal in the Nokia v. Amazon proceedings concerning EP 2 661 892. |
| 2025-01-20 | UPC_APP_68369/2024 | Nordic-Baltic RD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Nordic-Baltic Regional Division permitted the withdrawal of Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.'s infringement action (ACT_588346/2023) and Dexcom's counterclaim for revocation (CC_14848/2024) in Abbott v Dexcom proceedings (UPC 430/2023, EP 3 977 921). Both parties consented to each other's withdrawals and agreed that no costs order would be made. The Court declared the proceedings closed. |