Decisions
| Date | Case | Division | Action | Motion | Outcome | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-17 | UPC_APP_28969/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order in enforcement proceedings following a main infringement decision of 2 April 2025. Defendants applied under Rule 262A RoP for confidentiality protection over information to be rendered in the enforcement proceedings. The court ruled on multiple interrelated applications, directing parties to coordinate enforcement-related procedural submissions. |
| 2025-07-16 | UPC_APP_29027/2025 | Mannheim LD | Application Rop 333 | Procedural | Dismissed | FUJIFILM Corporation's request for review of the judge-rapporteur's order rejecting its intended enforcement warning (penalty application under R. 354.4 RoP) was rejected. The panel upheld the judge-rapporteur's reasoning: no specific time periods or penalty amounts were fixed in the main decision for the destruction/recall/removal orders, and claimant should have challenged those points on appeal rather than via panel review. |
| 2025-04-02 | ORD_15984/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Mannheim Local Division issued a procedural order separating proceedings with respect to the UK national part of EP 3 476 616 in the Fujifilm v. Kodak infringement action, pending the ECJ's ruling in case C-339/22 (BSH Hausgeräte) on jurisdiction under the Brussels Ia Regulation. |
| 2025-04-02 | ACT_579338/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Infringed | The Mannheim Local Division found that the Kodak defendants infringed EP 3 511 174 B1 owned by FUJIFILM Corporation, ordered an injunction, recall and destruction of infringing products, information disclosure, and an interim award of EUR 300,000 toward legal costs; the defendants' counterclaim for revocation was dismissed. |
| 2025-04-02 | ACT_578818/2023 | Mannheim LD | Infringement Action | Infringement merits | Revoked | The Mannheim Local Division fully revoked European patent EP 3 476 616 in Germany and dismissed the infringement action brought by FUJIFILM against Kodak entities. The application to amend the patent was also dismissed. The court held that the patent was entirely invalid due to lack of novelty/inventive step in the German territory. No injunction was granted. Claimant was ordered to pay EUR 300,000 as interim award on legal costs. The value in dispute was set at EUR 15,000,000. |