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| Date | Case | Division | Action | Motion | Outcome | Summary |
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| 2025-01-07 | UPC_APP_54972/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop305 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division judge-rapporteur issued a procedural order in the Sanofi pharmaceutical infringement actions (UPC_CFI_145-148/2024) granting the substitution of Sanofi-Aventis France by Sanofi Winthrop Industrie as a party following a corporate merger, under R. 310 RoP. The order addressed the allocation of court fees and costs between multiple claimant entities in relation to the French territory claims. |
| 2025-01-07 | UPC_APP_67755/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Düsseldorf Local Division decision allowing the withdrawal of DexCom's infringement action (including application to amend the patent) and Abbott's counterclaim for revocation by mutual consent (R. 265 RoP). Following an out-of-court settlement, DexCom agreed to withdraw the infringement action and Abbott agreed to withdraw the revocation counterclaim. Neither party requested a costs decision. The oral hearing scheduled for 8 May 2025 was cancelled. Court fees reimbursed: DexCom receives 60% of infringement action fees (EUR 22,200), Abbott receives 60% of revocation counterclaim fees (EUR 12,000). |
| 2025-01-07 | UPC_APP_159/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Munich Local Division procedural order staying both the infringement action (ACT_35930/2024) by Dyson against SharkNinja and the revocation counterclaim (CC_54802/2024) under R. 295(d) RoP, at the joint request of both parties who had agreed to a stay. Hearings scheduled for 8 May 2025 and 3 June 2025 were cancelled. |
| 2025-01-03 | UPC_APP_61570/2024 | Munich CD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Central Division granted Berggren Oy's application under Rule 262.1(b) RoP for access to all written pleadings and evidence filed in the NanoString v. Harvard revocation action, given Berggren's professional interest as a UPC representative firm. |
| 2025-01-02 | ORD_48265/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ordered that the infringement action and the counterclaim for revocation (CC_20512/2024) be heard together before the Munich Local Division, and set dates for an interim conference and oral hearing. |
| 2024-12-30 | UPC_APP_62431/2024 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division issued a procedural order in Nera Innovations v Xiaomi infringement proceedings concerning EP2642632, ruling that it is not ordinarily appropriate for the judge-rapporteur to make a preliminary ruling by the full panel under R.334(h) RoP on the admissibility of patent amendment-based case amendments, as such decisions should be reserved for oral hearings. |
| 2024-12-30 | UPC_APP_58035/2024 | Milan LD | Generic application | Costs | Dismissed | Milan Local Division dismissed Insulet Corporation's application for a cost decision following the rejection of EOFLOW Co. Ltd.'s intervention request in PI proceedings (EP 4 201 327). The court found the application inadmissible: a cost decision under R. 150 RoP requires a prior decision on costs in principle under R. 118.5 RoP. The order rejecting the intervention (1 October 2024) contained no such costs-in-principle decision, so the cost-determination application lacked the prerequisite under R. 156(e) RoP. Insulet was invited to resubmit once a costs award decision was obtained. |
| 2024-12-30 | UPC_CFI_168/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | — | Procedural only | Munich Local Division issued a procedural order requesting the President of the Court of First Instance to reassign a new technically qualified judge to the panel, following the resignation of the previously assigned technically qualified judge Patrice Vidon. |
| 2024-12-27 | UPC_APP_55923/2024 | Paris CD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Central Division (Paris) ruled on Suinno Mobile's application to vary the security for costs order in its infringement action against Microsoft, holding that a reduction in claimed damages did not affect the value of proceedings for security purposes. |
| 2024-12-27 | UPC_APP_41418/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division addressed Google's request for security for legal costs in the Ona Patents v. Google patent infringement action, examining whether the claimant's financial position gives rise to a legitimate concern that a cost order may not be recoverable. |
| 2024-12-27 | UPC_APP_41756/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division considered Apple's request for security for legal costs against claimant Ona Patents SL (an NPE with minimal share capital), addressing the claimant's financial capacity to bear costs if the action is dismissed. |
| 2024-12-27 | ORD_68137/2024 | Court of Appeal | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal decided on Syngenta's request to file a German-language exhibit without translation in the appeal proceedings, applying Rule 7 and Rule 13.1(q) RoP to the statement of response filed at appeal stage. |
| 2024-12-27 | UPC_APP_47098/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order in a declaration of non-infringement action granting Netgear's application to transfer a Qualcomm licence agreement (exhibit K68) from a related infringement case file into the present proceedings, subject to existing confidentiality conditions. The court also approved adding a technically qualified judge (Patrice Vidon) to both related proceedings for procedural economy. |
| 2024-12-27 | UPC_APP_61655/2024 | Paris CD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Paris Central Division (panel) order on Microsoft Corporation's application for additional security for costs against Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy in infringement proceedings concerning EP 2 671 173. The court had previously ordered EUR 300,000 in security for costs; Microsoft sought at least EUR 500,000 more. The order addresses the standard for increasing existing security and likely grants a modification, treating the request as one to increase the existing security order. No substantive ruling on infringement. |
| 2024-12-26 | UPC_CFI_338/2023 | Paris CD | Revocation Action | Revocation merits | Patent amended | The Paris Central Division dismissed Advanced Bionics' revocation actions (main and counterclaims) against MED-EL's EP 4 074 373 B1 (MRI-safe disk magnet for cochlear implants), maintaining the patent in the amended version of Auxiliary Request 0a after overcoming added-matter objections; costs were allocated 70% to the claimants and 30% to the defendant. |
| 2024-12-24 | UPC_APP_67908/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division granted Snowpixie Co., Ltd.'s request for a two-day extension of time for filing the reply and counterclaim defence in infringement proceedings against Golf Tech Golfartikel Vertriebs GmbH, due to the illness of the sole handling attorney. |
| 2024-12-24 | UPC_APP_67725/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | The Munich Local Division permitted the withdrawal of three infringement actions and related revocation counterclaims between Panasonic Holdings Corporation and multiple Xiaomi entities concerning EP2197132, EP3024163, and EP2584854 following a settlement, ordering 40% reimbursement of court fees as the withdrawals occurred after closure of the written procedure. |
| 2024-12-24 | UPC_APP_67921/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Munich Local Division in Snowpixie v Golf Tech granting a very short extension of deadlines for submission of the reply brief and defence to counterclaim until 27 December 2024, due to illness of the representative, after an initial partial extension had already been granted. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_APP_66647/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Munich Local Division (23 December 2024) allowed Tesla's withdrawal of its costs assessment application following the CFI's revocation of EP 1 838 002, the parallel withdrawal of Avago's main infringement action (on appeal), and party agreement that each side bears its own costs. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_APP_67435/2024 | Munich LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | Munich Local Division (23 December 2024) allowed withdrawal of all three infringement actions and counterclaims for revocation brought by Panasonic against OPPO following a settlement agreement between the parties. Each party bears its own costs; partial reimbursement of court fees (40%) granted under R. 370.9(b)(ii) RoP. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_APP_59980/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_607/2024) issued on 23 December 2024, concerning confidentiality protection under R. 262A RoP in infringement proceedings by Maxeon Solar against multiple Aiko Energy entities and distributors. The order addressed disclosure restrictions for confidential information related to EP 3 065 184. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_APP_57498/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_336/2024 and UPC_CFI_605/2024) on defendants' application for confidentiality protection under R. 262A RoP in Maxeon Solar's infringement action against Aiko Energy entities and distributors concerning EP 3 065 184. The order addressed the confidential club structure for multiple defendant groups represented by different counsel. |
| 2024-12-23 | APL_67135/2024 | Court of Appeal | Request for a discretionary review (RoP 220.3) | motionName.appeal_decision | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal (standing judge) dismissed Microsoft Corporation's request for discretionary review (R. 220.3 RoP) of the Paris Central Division order granting Suinno leave to reduce its damages claim under R. 263 RoP (UPC_CFI_164/2024). The Court held that an unconditional application to reduce the amount of damages claimed constitutes a proper application under R. 263.3 RoP, and that the value of the action and fee determination is the responsibility of the judge-rapporteur during the interim procedure. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_CFI_814/2024 | Paris LD | Application for an Order for inspection pursuant to RoP199 | Evidence | Procedural only | Paris Local Division granted an ex parte order for preservation of evidence (saisie-contrefaçon) and on-site inspection against VALINEA ENERGIE, allowing detailed description and physical seizure of documents relating to a waste incineration furnace allegedly reproducing features of EP 3 178 578 B1. TIRU suspected infringement based on video evidence of a new furnace installation. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_CoA_826/2024 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262A | — | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal granted Microsoft's application for confidentiality protection (Rule 262A RoP) of Exhibit BP 01 (a confidential global licence and settlement offer from Suinno) filed in a discretionary review application. The exhibit was ordered not to be made available to the public. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_CFI_813/2024 | Paris LD | Application for an Order for inspection pursuant to RoP199 | Evidence | Procedural only | Paris Local Division granted TIRU's application for an order for evidence preservation and inspection of premises (saisie) against MAGUIN under R.192-199 RoP, without hearing the defendant. The court authorised a bailiff-assisted inspection to preserve evidence relating to a furnace allegedly infringing patent EP3178578. The order was conditional on TIRU paying costs and lodging a €10,000 guarantee before 31 December 2024. Measures to be executed by 17 January 2025. |
| 2024-12-23 | UPC_APP_58027/2024 | Milan CD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Milan Central Division costs order in Insulet Corporation v. MENARINI DIAGNOSTICS s.r.l. arising from intervention proceedings (Insulet's application for provisional measures against EOFLOW, EP 4 201 327). The court held: (1) an intervener in sub-proceedings must show a legally qualified interest; (2) intervention under R. 313 RoP is governed by adversarial principle and both intervener applicant and respondent are parties for cost purposes; (3) the successful party preventing or obtaining intervention may claim costs under Art. 69 UPCA; (4) an invoice is not required if the amounts and activities are clear. MENARINI ordered to pay Insulet EUR 1,764 in costs within 15 days. |
| 2024-12-20 | APL_40470/2024 | Court of Appeal | Appeal RoP220.1 | motionName.appeal_decision | PI denied | The Court of Appeal dismissed Alexion's appeal against the Hamburg Local Division's refusal to grant provisional measures against Samsung Bioepis regarding patent EP 3167888. The Court addressed the interpretation of patent claims containing linguistic errors and the relevance of prosecution history. |
| 2024-12-20 | ACT_597277/2023 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order following the interim conference in the Edwards Lifesciences v. Meril infringement action, setting out preparation requirements for the oral hearing and granting leave to change the claim to include Romania following its accession to the Unitary Patent system. |
| 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. |
| 2024-12-20 | UPC_APP_56734/2024 | Munich LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Munich Local Division in Phoenix Contact v ILME (EP 3 602 692) on an application by HARTING Electric (opponent in parallel EPO opposition proceedings) for public access to the file under R. 262.1(b) RoP. The court held that a pending EPO opponent has a legal interest in access to the UPC file during the proceedings and granted the application. |
| 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. |
| 2024-12-20 | UPC_CoA_405/2024 | Court of Appeal | Appeal RoP220.1 | — | PI denied | The Court of Appeal dismissed Alexion's appeal against the first-instance refusal of provisional measures, upholding the finding that the patent claim could not be corrected by interpretation to remove alleged errors, and confirming that claim 2 of EP 3 167 888 was more likely than not insufficiently disclosed (Article 83 EPC). The provisional measures application was therefore denied. |
| 2024-12-19 | UPC_APP_54055/2024 | Copenhagen LD | Request to review an order ex-parte | motionName.ex_parte | Procedural only | Order of the Copenhagen Local Division upholding (under Art. 60(6) UPCA and Rule 197 RoP) the ex-parte evidence preservation and inspection order of 26 August 2024 issued in favour of Hybridgenerator ApS against HGSystem ApS and associated entities concerning EP 4 238 202 B1. After review at the request of the respondents, the Court confirmed that there remained sufficient evidence of infringement of the patent by the challenged products, rejecting arguments that the products had been modified after the preservation proceedings commenced. The expert IT report is released to the parties' representatives. |
| 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. |
| 2024-12-19 | UPC_CoA_523/2024 | Court of Appeal | Procedural Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal (Second Panel) ruled on admission of new evidence in the appeal by Sumi Agro against the Munich Local Division's provisional measures order in favour of Syngenta concerning EP 2 152 073. Exhibit SA17 (new pages from a publication already partly submitted at first instance) was disregarded as Sumi Agro failed to justify why these additional pages could not have been submitted earlier. Syngenta's Exhibits FF28-29 were also disregarded. However, Syngenta's Exhibits FF24-27 (concerning a possibly changed version of the contested Kagura product) were admitted, as they related to new evidence about a product modification. |
| 2024-12-18 | ACT_589997/2023 | Paris CD | Revocation Action | Revocation merits | Patent maintained | The Paris Central Division dismissed Tandem Diabetes Care's revocation action against Roche's EP 2 196 231 B1 (ambulatory drug infusion system), maintaining the patent as granted and ordering the claimants to bear the costs of proceedings, finding the grounds for invalidity (including lack of inventive step over prior art Diaz/Robertson/Glejboel) were not proven. |
| 2024-12-18 | ACT_459771/2023 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Permanent injunction | The Munich Local Division issued a landmark 161-page judgment in Huawei v Netgear finding infringement of Huawei's SEP portfolio patents and granting injunction, recall and destruction orders against Netgear entities across Belgium, Germany, Italy, Finland, France and Sweden, alongside a declaration of liability for damages; counterclaims for revocation were partially successful but did not defeat infringement for all claims. |
| 2024-12-18 | ACT_459771/2023 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Permanent injunction | The Munich Local Division issued a landmark 161-page judgment in Huawei v Netgear finding infringement of Huawei's SEP portfolio patents and granting injunction, recall and destruction orders against Netgear entities across Belgium, Germany, Italy, Finland, France and Sweden, alongside a declaration of liability for damages; counterclaims for revocation were partially successful but did not defeat infringement for all claims. |
| 2024-12-18 | UPC_APP_58871/2024 | Hamburg LD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Dismissed | Procedural order of the Hamburg Local Division rejecting a preliminary objection (Rule 19 RoP) filed by defendants Easee B.V., Yves Prevoo (director), and Easee Holding B.V. against Visibly Inc.'s patent infringement action. The court rejected the jurisdictional challenge, holding: (1) an alleged patent infringement constitutes a tort under Art. 7(2) Brussels I recast Regulation, giving the UPC jurisdiction over director liability claims as well; (2) the question whether a director can be held personally liable is a matter of the merits, not of jurisdiction. The court confirmed the Hamburg Local Division's competence under Art. 33(1)(a) UPCA based on the place where the alleged infringement may occur (Germany). Leave to appeal was granted. |
| 2024-12-18 | ORD_66938/2024 | The Hague LD | Procedural Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division (Judge-Rapporteur) ordered that Amycel's attempts to serve the Statement of Claim on the anonymous defendant (located in Poland, an EU country that is not a UPC Contracting Member State) constituted good service, that the Statement of Claim was deemed served on 18 November 2024, and set the time period for the defendant to lodge a Statement of Defence ending 18 February 2025. |
| 2024-12-18 | UPC_CFI_390/2023 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Costs only | Order imposing penalty payments of EUR 46,000 against Belkin companies for non-compliance with the court's disclosure order (accounting for infringement) in Philips v Belkin. The penalty ran at EUR 500/day for 26 days. Remaining requests by Philips were rejected. Philips bears 25% of costs; Belkin bears 75%. |
| 2024-12-17 | ACT_549550/2023 | Milan LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | The Milan Local Division issued a pre-trial conference order in Oerlikon v Himson's infringement and revocation proceedings for EP 2 145 848 B1, addressing pending issues including infringement evidence, damages, the Rule 119 penalty request, and setting the case value at EUR 2,000,000 for cost ceiling purposes. |
| 2024-12-17 | UPC_APP_56792/2024 | Munich CD | Generic application | Costs | Procedural only | Order of the Central Division (Munich Section) on a request by NanoString Technologies Europe Limited to release a security for legal costs imposed under Rule 158 RoP. The Court confirmed it has power to release security under Rule 352.2 RoP and set out the conditions for doing so, examining whether the reasons for imposing the security had ceased to exist following a final non-appealable judgment. |
| 2024-12-17 | UPC_CoA_810/2024 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | — | Dismissed | The Court of Appeal (standing judge) dismissed Curio Bioscience Inc.'s application for suspensive effect (R. 223.4 RoP) of a Düsseldorf Local Division order requiring Curio to provide security for costs of EUR 200,000 in favour of claimant 10x Genomics Inc. The standing judge held that Curio had not established 'extreme urgency' as required under R. 223 RoP, which is a condition for a standing-judge decision without hearing the respondent. |
| 2024-12-17 | UPC_CFI_240/2023 | Milan LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order (interim conference summary) of Milan Local Division in Oerlikon Textile v Himson Engineering (EP 2 145 848). The order summarises the procedural history (evidence preservation order, infringement and revocation counterclaim), the issues discussed at the interim conference (settlement proposals, claim construction, auxiliary requests) and confirms procedural arrangements for the oral hearing. Seven auxiliary requests remain before the court. |
| 2024-12-13 | UPC_APP_61630/2024 | Paris LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | Paris Local Division (13 December 2024) allowed withdrawal of ICPillar's infringement action and ARM's counterclaim for revocation following a confidential settlement agreement reached after mediation in parallel US proceedings. Security for costs (EUR 44,400 to ICPillar) to be returned in full; each party bears its own costs; court fees reimbursed at 40%. |
| 2024-12-12 | UPC_APP_64780/2024 | Paris CD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Central Division Paris denied Microsoft Corporation's request for leave to appeal the order granting Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies leave to change its claim (reducing damages to EUR 2 million), holding that the order did not involve legal issues of different interpretations or serving a concrete interest of the parties. |
| 2024-12-12 | ORD_65555/2024 | Munich LD | Generic Order | Preliminary injunction | Dismissed | Munich Local Division (12 December 2024) dismissed Sumi Agro's application to revoke a preliminary measures order, holding that Syngenta Limited had validly commenced main proceedings by uploading the statement of claim to the CMS within the applicable time limit, as the filing date under R. 15.2 RoP is the date the court fee is received. |
| 2024-12-12 | UPC_APP_64571/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division final order (judge-rapporteur Thomas) in infringement proceedings by Valeo Electrification against Magna PT entities concerning EP 3 320 602. The order harmonises time limits for the reply to the statement of defence and defence to the counterclaim for revocation, refusing a further extension beyond harmonisation as defendants objected. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |