| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_20508/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from the Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_140/2024) noting the defendant Curio Bioscience's stated intention to provide samples for inspection in 10x Genomics' infringement action concerning EP 2 697 391 B1. The Court warned that it may disregard evidence not submitted in accordance with time limits under R. 9.2 RoP, as no reasons were given for providing samples after closure of the written proceedings. |
| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_20478/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order setting a uniform service date of 30 April 2025 for all defendants in an infringement action concerning wireless charging technology. Defendants' counsel accepted service on behalf of all defendants, avoiding the need for service abroad and translations. Deadlines for preliminary objections and statement of defence were set accordingly. |
| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_20180/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal order staying appeal proceedings in a revocation action concerning a patent for vaping/e-cigarette technology. The patent had been revoked at first instance (Central Division Paris). Juul Labs appealed and applied for a stay pending parallel EPO opposition appeal proceedings, which were accelerated with oral proceedings scheduled for 17 October 2025. NJOY agreed to the stay. The Court of Appeal stayed proceedings under R. 295(a) RoP as the EPO proceedings could be expected to conclude relatively quickly. |
| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_11333/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | motionName.jurisdictional | Procedural only | The President of the Court of First Instance issued an order under R. 323 RoP on an application to change the language of proceedings in an infringement action by InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. against The Walt Disney Company and related entities (UPC_CFI_87/2025). The order sets out key principles: all parties potentially affected must be heard; a change to the patent language under Art. 49(5) UPCA addresses situations where the initial choice is detrimental to a party; and the position of defendants is the decisive factor when the balance of interests is otherwise equal. The order does not finally resolve the application but establishes the procedural framework. |
| 2025-04-30 | UPC_APP_17782/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Mannheim Local Division issued an order concerning the exchange of a member of the confidentiality club in proceedings between FUJIFILM Corporation and Kodak defendants over EP 3 476 616, granting or adjusting access to confidential information by specific named individuals in place of previous club members. This is a routine confidentiality management order under Rule 262A RoP. |
| 2025-04-29 | ACT_831/2025 | Paris CD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | The Central Division Paris issued a costs order in connection with the revocation action UPC_CFI_454/2023, requiring Tandem Diabetes to pay Roche Diabetes Care's representation and litigation costs. The Court rejected Tandem Diabetes's request to stay the costs proceedings pending the appeal against the decision on the merits. |
| 2025-04-29 | ACT_831/2025 | Paris CD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | The Paris Central Division issued a cost decision ordering Tandem Diabetes Care to pay Roche Diabetes Care's legal costs of EUR 112,000 plus travel expenses and court fees totalling approximately EUR 119,623, following Roche's success in the underlying revocation action. |
| 2025-04-29 | ACT_6322/2025 | Paris CD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | The Central Division Paris issued a costs decision in the revocation action (BMW v. ITCiCo Spain), clarifying that costs incurred in the application to set aside a default decision are recoverable within the main costs proceedings, not as a separate cost decision. |
| 2025-04-29 | UPC_APP_12962/2025 | The Hague LD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Settled | The Hague Local Division order granting withdrawal of both the infringement action (filed by Hand Held Products Inc.) and the counterclaim for revocation (filed by Scandit AG and Scandit Inc.) concerning EP 4 163 816, following a settlement between the parties. Both parties consented to withdrawal; no cost decisions were requested. The court also ordered 60% reimbursement of court fees to each party (written procedure not concluded in either action) and set the value of each action at EUR 3,000,000. The register was instructed to record the closure of both actions. |
| 2025-04-29 | UPC_APP_16910/2025 | Paris LD | Withdrawal (RoP265) | Withdrawal | Withdrawn | ArcelorMittal's application to withdraw the infringement action (UPC_CFI_583/2024) was permitted. The action was withdrawn before closure of the written procedure. The Court declared proceedings closed and ordered 60% reimbursement of court fees to ArcelorMittal under R.370.9(b)(i) RoP. No cost compensation was sought by either party. |
| 2025-04-29 | UPC_CFI_98/2025 | Paris CD | Application For Costs | — | Costs only | Order of Central Division Paris Seat in BMW v ITCiCo Spain (EP 2 796 333) on an application for a costs decision. BMW (applicant/claimant in the revocation action, where a default judgment had revoked the patent) sought recovery of costs incurred in opposing ITCiCo's failed application to set aside the default judgment. The court held that an application to set aside a decision by default is an internal procedural remedy and does not independently give rise to costs: those costs may be claimed within the costs proceedings related to the underlying default judgment. |
| 2025-04-28 | UPC_APP_17575/2025 | Hamburg LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hamburg Local Division judge-rapporteur rejected Xiaomi's application to disregard certain submissions by Nera Innovations on patentability of auxiliary requests in its reply on the patent amendment application, holding that the submissions were a permissible deepening of earlier arguments and not late-filed new matter. |
| 2025-04-28 | UPC_APP_5416/2025 | Milan LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | The Milan Local Division issued a procedural order on multiple Rule 262A RoP applications by ASUSTeK and other defendants for confidentiality protection of their business documents in the Ericsson v. ASUSTeK patent infringement action concerning EP 3 076 673. |
| 2025-04-28 | UPC_APP_14082/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The UPC Court of Appeal granted Juul Labs International's application to stay the revocation appeal proceedings pending a final decision by the EPO Boards of Appeal in parallel opposition proceedings concerning EP3430921, noting that both parties agreed to the stay and that the EPO oral proceedings were scheduled for approximately the same time as the UPC appeal hearing. |
| 2025-04-25 | UPC_APP_16612/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal granted a member of the public (Nicoventures) immediate access to written pleadings and evidence under R. 262.1(b) RoP, subject to conditions restricting use of those documents in other proceedings until the appeal is resolved. |
| 2025-04-25 | UPC_APP_13365/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal granted Nicoventures Trading Limited's request for access to written pleadings and evidence from appeal proceedings (Rule 262.1(b) RoP) involving Juul Labs and NJOY (nicotine product patents). Access was granted subject to conditions: Nicoventures may not file the pleadings with other courts (e.g. EPO Boards of Appeal) until the UPC appeal is closed, though it may use the arguments or prior art independently. Personal data in the documents was to be redacted by the Registry. Blanket requests for future documents were held inadmissible. |
| 2025-04-25 | UPC_APP_13352/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal granted Nicoventures Trading Limited access to specified written pleadings and evidence from the NJOY vs. VMR Products (Juul) appeal proceedings (UPC_CFI_310/2023), subject to the condition that the documents may not be filed with other courts or distributed until the appeal is concluded. |
| 2025-04-24 | UPC_APP_18809/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division granted a deadline extension to claimant Rädlinger Maschinenbau GmbH under R. 9(3) RoP, because the defendant had belatedly delivered a USB stick containing exhibits only after the deadline for response had already begun, and no significant delay to the proceedings would result. |
| 2025-04-23 | ORD_19201/2025 | Milan CD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division referred the counterclaim for revocation to the Milan Central Division while retaining jurisdiction over the infringement action pursuant to Art. 33(3)(b) UPCA. The application to amend the patent was referred together with the counterclaim for revocation. |
| 2025-04-23 | UPC_APP_19188/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order of the Munich Local Division (presiding judge Zigann) granting Samsung's request to set a uniform service date of 5 May 2025 and uniform Statement of Defence deadline of 5 August 2025 for all defendants in Maxell Ltd.'s infringement action concerning EP 2 403 266. The parties had agreed on the virtual service date to harmonise the deadline regime given that service on Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in Korea had not yet been completed. |
| 2025-04-23 | UPC_APP_17665/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Confidentiality order under R. 262A RoP granted in infringement proceedings between CUP&CINO Kaffeesystem-Vertrieb GmbH & Co. KG and ALPINA Coffee Systems GmbH. Specific financial information (employee count, annual turnover, balance sheet total) contained in a defendant exhibit classified as confidential; access restricted to named representatives and one CFO on claimant's side. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_18755/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order confirming service of the statement of claim on a Chinese defendant (via voluntary appointment of Hogan Lovells), granting a five-week extension of the defence deadline, and providing instructions on case management system access for multiple defendants. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_17607/2025 | Milan CD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | The Milan Central Division allowed Pfizer's withdrawal of both the revocation action (ACT_45928/2024) and the counterclaim for revocation (CC_60908/2024) against GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA concerning EP 4 183 412 (RSV vaccine patent), with GSK's consent and without a cost decision; 60% of court fees were reimbursed to Pfizer. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_18914/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division issued a procedural order in the Atlas Global Technologies v. TP-Link infringement proceedings concerning EP 3 186 937, addressing procedural matters in the parallel cases. |
| 2025-04-22 | ACT_7529/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | Decision of the Düsseldorf Local Division on a costs assessment application (Rule 151 RoP) filed by Mammut Sports Group GmbH and Mammut Sports Group AG following a judgment in the main proceedings (UPC_CFI_16/2024) where Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH's infringement action for EP 3 466 498 B1 was decided. The Court partially granted the costs application, allowing reimbursement of EUR 4,866.11, correcting the defendants' calculation base to use only the infringement action value of EUR 1,000,000 rather than the consolidated value including the revocation counterclaim. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_7730/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application RoP262A | Procedural | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division procedural order granting Ortovox Sportartikel GmbH's application for protection of confidential information (R. 262A RoP) in the context of a costs-assessment (Kostenfestsetzungsverfahren) procedure concerning EP 3 466 498. The court found the formal requirements met and granted protection for trade secrets and other confidential information submitted in the costs proceedings. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_16366/2025 | Milan CD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Milan Central Division procedural order granting Pfizer's application to withdraw a revocation action against GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA concerning EP 4 183 412 (RSV F protein vaccine patent), and a separately filed counterclaim for revocation in parallel Düsseldorf infringement proceedings (which had been referred to the Central Division). Pfizer and Glaxo had each filed applications to amend the patent; both revocation actions were withdrawn by Pfizer prior to closure of the written procedure. The court also ordered 60% reimbursement of court fees and confirmed each party bears its own costs. |
| 2025-04-22 | ACT_7605/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | Decision by Düsseldorf Local Division (UPC_CFI_16/2024, 22 April 2025) on costs assessment (Kostenfestsetzung) following Ortovox's successful infringement action against Mammut for EP 3 466 498 B1. The court ruled that using multiple attorneys is permissible for cost recovery purposes where no duplicate costs are generated; PI costs and main proceedings costs have separate caps and are separately reimbursable. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_17784/2025 | Milan CD | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Withdrawn | Order by Milan Central Division (UPC_CFI_687/2024, 22 April 2025) permitting Pfizer's withdrawal of the revocation action and counterclaim for revocation against GlaxoSmithKline's EP 4 183 412 (RSV F protein vaccine), and permitting GlaxoSmithKline to withdraw its patent amendment application. 60% court fee reimbursement was granted; each party bears its own costs. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_16448/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal (Panel 1a) order on Amazon's appeal against a Munich Local Division order refusing Amazon's R. 190 RoP request for production of unredacted Nokia documents in infringement proceedings concerning EP 2 661 892. The appeal became moot (Erledigung der Hauptsache, R. 360 RoP) following a development in the main proceedings, and the Court issued a procedural order addressing costs in the now-resolved appeal. |
| 2025-04-22 | UPC_APP_16448/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 265 | Procedural | Dismissed | Court of Appeal dismissed Amazon's appeal against the Munich Local Division's refusal to disclose unredacted documents held by Nokia under Art.59 UPCA and R.190 RoP (evidence production). The appeal became devoid of purpose after the underlying infringement proceedings (UPC_CFI_399/2023) were declared closed following Nokia's withdrawal of the infringement action. The appeal was disposed of under R.360 RoP. |
| 2025-04-18 | UPC_APP_9095/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal refused Meril's application for suspensive effect of their appeal against the Munich Local Division's infringement decision in favour of Edwards Lifesciences, meaning the first-instance judgment remained enforceable pending appeal. |
| 2025-04-18 | UPC_APP_13022/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Order from the Court of Appeal (UPC_CoA_520/2024) on Scandit's application for 20% reimbursement of court fees under R. 370.11 RoP following the withdrawal of Hand Held Products' appeal against a preliminary injunction. The CoA had previously granted a PI at first instance against Scandit for indirect infringement of EP 3 866 051; Hand Held Products later withdrew its application for provisional measures and the appeal proceedings were declared closed. The Court decided on whether the withdrawal before closure of oral proceedings qualified for fee reimbursement. |
| 2025-04-18 | UPC_APP_13022/2025 | Court of Appeal | Generic application | Costs | Costs only | Application by Scandit AG for 20% reimbursement of court fees following withdrawal of Hand Held Products' provisional measures application was dismissed. The CoA held that the withdrawal of the provisional measures application occurred after the closure of oral proceedings (the oral hearing had already taken place), so the 20% reimbursement threshold under R.370.9(b)(iii) RoP was not met. The provisional measures proceedings had been declared closed after Hand Held withdrew the application. |
| 2025-04-18 | UPC_APP_6597/2025 | Paris LD | Application RoP262.1 (b) | Procedural | Procedural only | Paris Local Division partially granted LIFE365's application under R.262.1(b) RoP for access to the case file in the HP v. LAMA France proceedings. Access was granted to certain pleadings concerning the validity of the patents (statement of claim, statement of defence, claimant's reply) but only in redacted form respecting confidentiality orders. Access to infringement-related pleadings was denied as LIFE365 failed to show the cartridges were of the same origin. Access to exhibits was denied as these were publicly available from the EPO. |
| 2025-04-17 | ORD_18772/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division, with the consent of all parties, stayed the infringement and revocation proceedings against TP-Link defendants 2 to 4 under R. 295(a) RoP, pending further developments. |
| 2025-04-17 | UPC_APP_17300/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division (17 April 2025) stayed the infringement and counterclaim for revocation proceedings between Atlas Global Technologies and Vantiva SA by consent of the parties pending EPO proceedings (R. 295(a) RoP). |
| 2025-04-17 | UPC_APP_18039/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division issued a procedural order rejecting Moderna defendants' requests to extend the deadline for filing preliminary objections and the Statement of Defence under R. 333 RoP, while setting a single consolidated deadline for all Moderna group defendants to file one joint Statement of Defence in the Arbutus/Genevant v. Moderna infringement proceedings (UPC_CFI_191-192/2025). |
| 2025-04-17 | UPC_APP_16648/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Procedural | Procedural only | Court of Appeal (Panel 2, Rian Kalden as rapporteur) dismissed Kodak Holding GmbH, Kodak GmbH, and Kodak Graphic Communications GmbH's application for suspensive effect of the Mannheim Local Division's infringement judgment of 2 April 2025 against Kodak. The Mannheim Local Division had found infringement of Fujifilm Corporation's EP 3 511 174, ordered a permanent injunction, damages, information disclosure, product destruction and recall, and EUR 300,000 interim costs. The Court of Appeal held that Kodak had not demonstrated manifest errors in the first-instance decision – the complaints about priority, prior use rights, right to be heard, proportionality of injunction, and cost allocation did not reach the threshold of manifest error on a summary assessment. The Court also addressed R. 171.2 RoP (uncontested facts), clarifying that an uncontested fact does not automatically lead to the legal consequence for which it was invoked. |
| 2025-04-17 | UPC_APP_18047/2025 | The Hague LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Hague Local Division order on service and deadline harmonisation in parallel infringement actions by Moderna, Inc. and Moderna TX, Inc. against multiple Moderna group entities. The court declined to extend individual defendants' SoD deadlines and declined to accept informal service on U.S. entities via headquarters. Because all defendants are in the same corporate group and were found to be already aware of the statements of claim, one unified SoD deadline was set to streamline proceedings. The court inferred that attempts to avoid service at US headquarters were an attempt to delay. |
| 2025-04-17 | UPC_APP_16915/2025 | Court of Appeal | Application Rop 223 | Procedural | Procedural only | The Court of Appeal, acting through the standing judge, dismissed Barco N.V.'s application for suspensive effect of its appeal against a cost order made against it following dismissal of its application for provisional measures before the Brussels Local Division (UPC_CoA_329/2025). The Brussels Local Division had found jurisdiction but dismissed the provisional measures for lack of urgency and ordered Barco to bear costs up to EUR 112,000. Barco sought suspensive effect only as to the cost order. The application was dismissed as the cost order was not immediately enforceable. |
| 2025-04-16 | UPC_APP_8962/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division judge-rapporteur ordered AorticLab srl (defendant/counterclaimant) to provide security for costs in favour of the claimant Emboline Inc., finding that AorticLab's own statement that it would be driven to insolvency by an injunction demonstrated a legitimate and real concern that a costs order might not be recoverable. |
| 2025-04-16 | UPC_APP_15082/2025 | Mannheim LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order by Mannheim Local Division (UPC_CFI_471/2023, 16 April 2025) on AYLO defendants' application under R. 9.1 RoP to introduce new evidence from US PTAB proceedings showing DISH's allegedly contradictory positions on claim features of EP 2 479 680 (streaming video technology), relevant to the UPC infringement proceedings. |
| 2025-04-16 | UPC_APP_16059/2025 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Procedural order from Munich Local Division Panel 1 (Heraeus Electronics/Precious Metals v. Vibrantz GmbH, EP 3 215 288) on a time-period extension request by claimant Heraeus. The court corrected the start date of Heraeus's reply deadline to 18 March 2025 (the date the UPC representative was granted access to unredacted documents) rather than 17 March. The extension request citing confidentiality-club members' vacation was rejected: it is the free decision of members to be absent, and this cannot affect procedural deadlines. Vibrantz's request for clarification of its own deadline was addressed. |
| 2025-04-16 | UPC_CFI_539/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Request to review an order ex-parte | motionName.ex_parte | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division ruled on Siltronic AG's application for review of an ex parte preservation of evidence and inspection order (R. 197.3 and .4 RoP) obtained by Bekaert Binjiang Steel Cord Co. against Siltronic AG and Hinterberger GmbH & Co. KG concerning EP 3 212 356 B1. The court confirmed that a preservation order may encompass the seizure of delivery notes and invoices, that the list in R. 196.1 is not exhaustive, and that such measures may be used to gather evidence of individual acts of use. The court upheld the order in substance. |
| 2025-04-14 | ACT_60376/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | The Düsseldorf Local Division awarded costs to Seoul Viosys following infringement and revocation proceedings (EP 3 926 698 B1), ordering each defendant to pay EUR 31,982.85 and defendant expert klein GmbH to additionally pay EUR 51,112.73 for the counterclaim for revocation. |
| 2025-04-14 | ACT_66999/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Application For Costs | Costs | Costs only | The Düsseldorf Local Division dismissed as inadmissible the defendants' (expert e-Commerce GmbH and expert klein GmbH) application for costs assessment under R.151 RoP in infringement proceedings brought by Seoul Viosys concerning EP3223320, because the application was filed more than one month after the underlying decision of 10 October 2024. |
| 2025-04-14 | ORD_9090/2025 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic Order | Procedural | Procedural only | The Düsseldorf Local Division exercised its discretion under Art.33(3)(a) UPCA to hear both the infringement action and the counterclaim for revocation jointly in the Ona Patents v Google case concerning EP2263098, finding that a joint hearing was appropriate for reasons of efficiency and enabling simultaneous decision on validity and infringement. |
| 2025-04-14 | UPC_APP_64695/2024 | Munich LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | The Munich Local Division issued a procedural order on an application under Rule 303(2) RoP for separation of proceedings in an infringement action against Motorola Mobility and others concerning EP 3 110 072. The court exercised its discretion on whether to separate the case relating to defendant Flextronics International Europe B.V. (defendant 5) from the remaining defendants, noting that procedural economy and absence of undue prejudice are the key criteria. |
| 2025-04-14 | UPC_APP_48223/2024 | Dusseldorf LD | Generic application | Procedural | Procedural only | Düsseldorf Local Division order in Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd.'s infringement action against Aiko Energy entities and others concerning EP 3 065 184 B1 (solar panel technology). The court ordered Maxeon to provide security for the defendants' legal costs and expenses (R. 158 RoP) given Maxeon's difficult financial situation in the solar sector, finding that the risk of Maxeon being unable to pay costs outweighed Maxeon's procedural rights. The security ceiling was set at EUR 200,000 based on the EUR 2,000,000 combined value of the dispute, with allocation between defendant groups. |