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| Date | Case | Division | Action | Motion | Outcome | Summary |
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| 2025-09-04 | UPC_APP_35977/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order in the UERAN Technology v. Xiaomi infringement proceedings, addressing scheduling and procedural management of the multi-defendant action concerning EP 2 661 133. |
| 2025-09-04 | UPC_APP_33309/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division considered MediaTek Germany's application for security for legal costs from Huawei (a Chinese entity), addressing whether the enforcement of a costs order against a non-EU-resident claimant justified requiring security. |
| 2025-09-04 | UPC_APP_33992/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order addressing Belparts Group N.V.'s application under R.302.3 RoP to have the counterclaim for infringement from parallel Central Division Paris proceedings consolidated with the present infringement action against IMI Hydronic entities concerning EP3812870. |
| 2025-09-04 | UPC_APP_35978/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Munich Local Division (UPC_CFI_610/2025) on a request by Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH to set uniform deadlines for all defendants in a new infringement action by UERAN Technology LLC, pending service on remaining Xiaomi defendants. The order addressed procedural harmonisation where most defendants had not yet been served. |
| 2025-09-04 | UPC_APP_34350/2025 | Milan CD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Milan Central Division judge-rapporteur issued a procedural order in the revocation action by Gilead Sciences against Academy of Military Medical Sciences (patent EP 3 854 403, Remdesivir for MERS/SARS-CoV-1). The order resolved disputes on the validity of service on the Chinese defendant via its EPO patent representative Lavoix. The court held that service on the patent representative within the CMS was valid under Rule 271(6) RoP. Lavoix's objections to service were inadmissible as the patent representative had no standing to defend the patent holder without a power of attorney. Gilead's premature request for a default judgment was declared currently inadmissible. |
| 2025-09-03 | UPC_APP_33210/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Preliminary injunction | PI granted | The Düsseldorf Local Division granted HP Development Company's application for a preliminary injunction against Andreas Rentmeister e.K. (Defendant 2) for alleged infringement of EP2826630 and EP3530469, including injunctions, information disclosure, and penalty payments, after the defendant failed to substantiate its objection to the provisional measures application. |
| 2025-09-03 | UPC_APP_35609/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Düsseldorf Local Division (judge-rapporteur Dr. Schumacher) granting Zapp AG and Zapp Precision Metals GmbH a partial extension of the deadline for filing their Statement of Defence in Dai Nippon Printing's infringement action (EP 3 805 415). The claimant opposed full extension but the court extended the deadline by one week (to 16 September 2025), finding that the exceptional circumstances cited by defendants partially justified an extension while requiring a balance with the claimant's interest in swift proceedings. |
| 2025-09-02 | ACT_32548/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division judge-rapporteur issued a confidentiality order under Rule 262A RoP in preliminary injunction proceedings, restricting access to certain confidential technical and commercial information of the respondents to a limited circle of persons. |
| 2025-09-02 | APL_35616/2025 | Court of Appeal | Request for a discretionary review (RoP 220.3) | motionName.appeal_decision | Procedural only | Court of Appeal (standing judge Gougé) order on CeraCon GmbH's request for discretionary review (R. 220.3 RoP) of the Mannheim Local Division's refusal to grant leave to amend its counterclaim for revocation against Sunstar Engineering Inc. concerning EP 4 108 413. The Court held that leave to amend under R. 263.2 RoP must be refused if any one of the exclusion criteria in (a) or (b) is met — the disjunctive test. The request for discretionary review was therefore dealt with under this principle. No substantive patent validity ruling. |
| 2025-09-02 | UPC_APP_35439/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Munich Local Division (presiding judge Zigann) granting claimants Shanghai Jinko and Zhejiang Jinko Solar's application to stay the infringement proceedings (UPC_CFI_119/2025) under Rules 295(d) and 295(m) RoP and the revocation proceedings (UPC_CFI_401/2025) under Rule 295(d) RoP against LONGi Solar and related defendants. The stay was requested because the parties were in ongoing comprehensive settlement negotiations. Most LONGi defendants consented; for Soltech Energy GbR (defendant 4), the stay was justified in the interests of proper administration of justice. The interim conference and oral hearing dates were cancelled. |
| 2025-09-02 | UPC_APP_35269/2025 | Nordic-Baltic RD | Generic application | Costs | Procedural only | Order of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division in Edwards Lifesciences v Meril Life Sciences et al. (EP 3 769 722) on a request for rectification of the decision on the merits of 21 July 2025. The prior decision on the merits found the patent invalid as granted but upheld it as amended, and found infringement of the amended patent. The operative part of that decision ordered the defendants to bear 100% of Edwards' costs in the infringement action and 75% of Edwards' costs in the revocation counterclaim proceedings. The defendants requested rectification to add an obligation on Edwards to bear 25% of the defendants' costs in the revocation proceedings. The rectification request is the subject of this order. |
| 2025-09-01 | UPC_CoA_805/2025 | Court of Appeal | Request for a discretionary review (RoP 220.3) | — | Dismissed | The Court of Appeal (standing judge) dismissed Centripetal Limited's request for discretionary review (R. 220.3 RoP) of the Mannheim Local Division's refusal to permit further written pleadings (R. 36 RoP) in its infringement action against Keysight Technologies concerning EP 3 821 580. The request for review was denied because the impugned order was not manifestly wrong. |
| 2025-09-01 | UPC_CFI_258/2025 | Paris CD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Dismissed | The Central Division Paris rejected Seoul Viosys Co., Ltd.'s preliminary objection requesting dismissal of Emporia UK and Ireland Ltd.'s revocation action as inadmissible under Art. 33(4) UPCA. Seoul Viosys argued that Emporia was a 'straw company' acting as a nominee for ex-pert klein GmbH (the defendant in parallel infringement proceedings before the Court of Appeal), and therefore constituted the 'same party'. The Court held that the 'straw company' theory has a legal basis in EU law and may be relevant under Art. 33(4) UPCA, but that mere coordination of litigation strategies between a distributor and its supplier does not constitute proof that one acts as a nominee for the other. |
| 2025-09-01 | UPC_CFI_848/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | — | Procedural only | Procedural order from Munich Local Division dated 1 September 2025 granting KNAPP Smart Solutions GmbH's application for a 6-day extension of the deadline for its reply to the defence and the response to the counterclaim for revocation (including any patent amendment application) to 9 September 2025. The extension was justified by mutual vacation absences among involved persons and consented to by the defendant Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH. The order notes that irregularities in the CMS upload dates caused uncertainty about the exact deadline. |
| 2025-08-29 | UPC_APP_28536/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Amend Document | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Wonderland Nurserygoods' application under Rule 263 RoP to amend its claim in infringement proceedings against Cybex GmbH and related entities concerning EP 1 905 615 (stroller swivel locking device). |
| 2025-08-29 | ACT_44624/2024 | The Hague LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Not infringed | The Local Division The Hague found that Maars' Horizon Products did not infringe City Glass's expired EP 1 651 838 (glazing system patent) because a key feature of the sole claim (feature 1.6 – self-locking mechanism) was not met; the revocation counterclaim was dismissed as the patent was held valid. Costs were agreed between the parties. |
| 2025-08-29 | ACT_19943/2025 | The Hague LD | Application for provisional measures | Preliminary injunction | PI denied | The Hague Local Division dismissed Cilag GmbH International's and Ethicon LLC's application for provisional measures (preliminary injunction) against RiVOLUTiON GmbH for alleged infringement of EP 3 689 262 (a staple cartridge patent for surgical staplers). The court found that the urgency requirement for provisional measures was not satisfied: Cilag had known or should have known by November 2024 (following a Bariatric Study result) of the potential infringement and related market risks, and had not filed the application promptly. The fact that a Sana group tender outcome became clearer later did not revive urgency as it was foreseeable. Cilag was ordered to pay EUR 80,000 as an interim costs award to RiVOLUTiON. Ancillary applications were also dismissed. |
| 2025-08-29 | UPC_CFI_500/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 360 | — | Costs only | Mannheim Local Division declared the provisional measures proceedings against Blankenhorn GmbH (defendant 2) terminated due to both parties agreeing the matter was resolved, and ordered Blankenhorn to bear the costs of that part of the proceedings. The Court found that Blankenhorn had not formally submitted to the claims before the application was served, and therefore bears costs. |
| 2025-08-28 | UPC_APP_35652/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Order on a fee reimbursement application under Rule 370.9(b)(i) RoP filed by Faro Technologies, Inc. following withdrawal of its application for provisional measures against PMT Technologies (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. The Court rejected the fee reimbursement request, holding that Rule 370.9(b)(i) RoP is not directly or analogously applicable to applications for provisional measures, only to main actions. |
| 2025-08-27 | UPC_APP_35377/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division granted an application by Samsung defendants to set a uniform (fictitious) service date and extended deadlines for all defendants in infringement proceedings brought by Eyesmatch Ltd., following agreement between the parties. |
| 2025-08-27 | UPC_APP_35089/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order on Decathlon's request to disregard submissions in the defendants' rejoinder concerning the validity of EP1697604 as granted, ruling on whether the rejoinder to the application to amend the patent may contain arguments on invalidity of the granted claims. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_33609/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division granted MediaTek Germany GmbH's application requiring Huawei Technologies to provide security for legal costs under R. 158.1 RoP, setting a six-week deadline for compliance, given Huawei's non-EU registered seat and risks associated with enforcing a cost award in China. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_34711/2025 | Paris LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Paris Local Division procedural order clarifying the starting point for procedural time limits (preliminary objection deadline – 1 month; statement of defence – 3 months) in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action against Vivo entities concerning EP 3 852 468. Following an appeal by Sun Patent Trust against part of the confidentiality circle order (July 31 final order), and Vivo's voluntary compliance with Sun's request not to access highly confidential documents pending the appeal, the judge-rapporteur clarified that the deadlines agreed between the parties run from the date of the final confidentiality order (31 July 2025), as originally specified. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_33733/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_758/2024 and UPC_CFI_259/2025, 26 August 2025) granting Siemens defendants' application under R. 262A RoP to classify certain trade-secret information as confidential and restrict access. Hologic did not contest the confidentiality or scope. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_32887/2025 | Milan LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Final order from the Milan Local Division (UPC_CFI_472/2024) on Dainese's application under R. 262A RoP for confidentiality protection of financial exhibits filed in the context of a security for costs application by Alpinestars and Motocard. The Court granted the application in part, creating a confidential club including Defendants' General Counsel (Ms. Buccimazza) and their legal representatives, balancing protection of confidential financial data against the defendants' right to an effective defence. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_APP_33511/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ruled on Taylor Wessing LLP's application for access to written pleadings and evidence under Rule 262.1(b) RoP in NEC Corporation's infringement action against TCL entities concerning EP 2 645 714. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_CFI_559/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from Munich Local Division dated 26 August 2025 staying the proceedings in an infringement action brought by Shangrao Xinyuan Yuedong Technology Development Co. against LONGi Solar and related entities regarding EP 3 297 043 B1, following a joint request by the claimant and defendants 1–4 due to ongoing settlement negotiations. Proceedings against defendant 5 (Thomas Seifert) were also stayed under R. 295(m) RoP pending possible inclusion in the settlement. |
| 2025-08-26 | UPC_CFI_362/2025 | Paris LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Paris Local Division granted a three-week extension to Vivo entities for filing their Preliminary Objection and Statement of Defence in Sun Patent Trust's infringement action concerning EP 3 407 524, following the delay caused by confidentiality proceedings and the parties' voluntary agreement to grant access to unredacted files. |
| 2025-08-25 | UPC_APP_34972/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal rejected Sun Patent Trust's application for suspensive effect of its appeal against a Paris Local Division order, finding that granting VIVO employees access to highly confidential information pending the appeal did not irreversibly undermine the appeal's purpose. |
| 2025-08-25 | UPC_APP_22894/2024 | Munich LD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division ruled that Qualcomm's preliminary objection challenging the validity of the withdrawal of an opt-out for EP 1 875 683 was inadmissible under Rule 19.1 RoP, and confirmed that the withdrawal of the opt-out was effective. |
| 2025-08-25 | ORD_35448/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division ruled that authority to represent a defendant in provisional measures proceedings does not automatically extend to receiving service of a statement of claim in subsequent infringement proceedings, and that service on non-EU defendants must follow Rule 274 RoP. |
| 2025-08-25 | UPC_APP_34971/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal received Sun Patent Trust's application for suspensive effect under Rule 223 RoP against an order of the Paris Local Division of 31 July 2025 granting certain Vivo employees access to highly confidential information in infringement proceedings. Sun Patent argued that the highly confidential licence information should be subject to an 'External Eyes Only' regime excluding Vivo employees. |
| 2025-08-25 | UPC_APP_22897/2024 | Munich LD | Preliminary objection | motionName.jurisdictional | Dismissed | Preliminary objection by Qualcomm entities (Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., Qualcomm Germany GmbH) challenging jurisdiction dismissed by judge-rapporteur. Defendants argued that the withdrawal of the opt-out of EP 1 552 399 by a UPC representative (Ms Huang) was invalid for lack of power of attorney. The court held that a registered UPC representative (Art. 48 UPCA, R. 5.3(b)(i) RoP) does not need a written mandate for opt-out withdrawal; formal requirements were met and the patent falls within UPC jurisdiction. Appeal against this decision was not allowed. |
| 2025-08-22 | UPC_CFI_248/2024 | Munich LD | Infringement Action | — | Patent amended | Munich Local Division found infringement of EP 2 387 547 (water filter cartridge patent) in an amended form and issued a permanent injunction against the defendants (AQUASHIELD entities). The patent was maintained in an amended form pursuant to auxiliary requests. The Court also ordered disclosure of information and declared defendants liable for damages from 23 May 2019. The infringement claim was partly dismissed and costs split 50/50. |
| 2025-08-22 | UPC_CFI_459/2023 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | — | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division suspended the file access proceedings under R.262.1(b) RoP concerning the Tridonic/CUPOWER infringement case, pending ongoing settlement negotiations in the parallel main proceedings, with consent of all parties. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_34793/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal disregarded applications filed by Seoul Viosys after the oral hearing had closed, ruling that parties must refrain from further communications with the court after an oral hearing and there is no need to summarise oral argument in writing. |
| 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. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_34962/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division (Panel 2) issued a confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP in SEP/FRAND infringement proceedings, protecting Huawei's licence agreements submitted in response to MediaTek's R. 190 document production request, while specifying who may access the confidential information. |
| 2025-08-21 | ORD_35283/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | Order from the Court of Appeal (UPC_CoA_363/2025) dismissing Microsoft's request for rectification of a Court of Appeal decision by default against Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies under R. 353 RoP. Microsoft sought to add a R. 356.3 RoP notice (that a further default decision would be final) to the decision. The Court held that such a notice must be requested in the proceedings concerning the default decision itself, and could not be added retrospectively by way of rectification. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_35051/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal order on a confidentiality application (R. 262A RoP) filed by Kodak (appellants/defendants) in appeal proceedings concerning Fujifilm's infringement action. The order addresses confidentiality of trade secrets and commercially sensitive information in the grounds of appeal, confirming that the requirements of the Court's electronic case management system do not override the Rules of Procedure and the Court's case law. No substantive ruling on infringement or validity. |
| 2025-08-21 | ACT_13359/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Infringement Action | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order in infringement proceedings by Hartmann Packaging A/S against Omni-Pac entities (Düsseldorf Local Division) concerning EP 2 755 901 B1 (egg packaging). The order closes the interim procedure, provides the panel's preliminary view on the skilled person definition and provides the parties with feature analyses for claims 1, 5 and 6. Claimant cautioned about potential indefiniteness of its recall request and corrected the basis for preliminary damages. Parties given deadline until 28 August 2025 for uploads before oral hearing. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_35194/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal order denying Yealink's request for simultaneous interpretation at the oral hearing in provisional measures proceedings. The Court held that a party must justify the need for court-ordered simultaneous interpretation; the fact that the defendant is based in a non-English speaking country or that company officials will have difficulties following proceedings does not generally justify such an order. The same applies to interpretation at the parties' own cost. A party may instead engage a private interpreter at its own expense with two weeks' notice to the Registry (R. 109.4 RoP). |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_26908/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Evidence | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division dismissed Black Sheep Retail Products B.V.'s application to deposit three physical objects as late exhibits in the infringement and counterclaim for revocation proceedings against HL Display AB (UPC_CFI_386/2024, EP 2 432 351). The Court rejected the application because no explanation was given as to why the physical objects could not have been filed together with the rejoinder of 20 February 2025. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_34189/2025 | Paris CD | Generic application | Procedural | Settled | Paris Central Division ordered the release of a EUR 25,000 security for procedural costs deposited by Ballinno B.V. (the defendant in a revocation action) to Kinexon Sports & Media GmbH (the claimant), following a settlement agreement between the parties. The main revocation action had been decided on 30 April 2025 (EP 1 944 067 revoked). The court applied Rule 352.2 RoP by analogy, noting the conclusion of the proceedings and the settlement. |
| 2025-08-21 | ACT_30657/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division granted a joint application by both parties to stay the infringement proceedings under R.295(d) and R.296.2 RoP pending ongoing settlement negotiations. The stay was granted until reinstitution of proceedings at the request of either party. This is the underlying infringement action UPC_CFI_580/2025 (Tridonic v. Inventronics). |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_33358/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop313 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The UPC Court of Appeal granted the withdrawal of an intervention application filed by LIFE 365 S.R.L. and LIFE 365 ITALY S.P.A. in an appeal (LAMA v Hewlett-Packard) concerning patents EP2089230 and EP1737669, as the underlying appeal had already been closed before the intervention request was filed. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_APP_33358/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop313 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Court of Appeal granted the application by Life 365 S.r.l. and Life 365 Italy S.p.A. to withdraw their application to intervene (R. 313 RoP), following a settlement between LAMA and HPDC in the underlying appeal proceedings. The parties in the main appeal had already withdrawn all their claims by decision of 24 July 2025. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_CFI_248/2025 | Munich LD | Application RoP262A | — | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order in Huawei's infringement action against MediaTek entities (Dimensity-series 5G chips, EP 3 905 840 B1) concerning a confidentiality protection application (R. 262A RoP) in relation to a request for production of licence agreements (R. 190 RoP). The order dealt with the treatment of confidential information submitted alongside a FRAND/compulsory licence antitrust defence. |
| 2025-08-21 | UPC_CFI_386/2024 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division dismissed Black Sheep Retail Products B.V.'s application to submit two physical objects (its old product and a new product) as exhibits in support of its rejoinder in infringement proceedings brought by HL Display AB concerning EP 2 432 351. The court found no explanation had been provided for why the objects could not have been filed earlier, notably with the Statement of Defence. |
| 2025-08-20 | APL_20125/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application to leave to appeal a cost decision (RoP221) | Costs | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal ruled on an application for leave to appeal a cost decision and on a preliminary reference request to the CJEU (Art. 267 TFEU), providing extensive guidance on when the UPC must refer questions of EU law, while rejecting expert klein's proposed preliminary reference questions as not requiring a referral. |