Jan 7, 2025
The claimant requests a production order directed against themselves in order to be enabled to produce two SEP (Standard Essential Patent) license agreements which they are prevented from producing on their own…
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Read more →The claimant has brought infringement actions against 10 defendants, with defendants 1, 2, 7 and 8 being based in China. Pursuant to R 275.2 RoP, the Court may order that proceedings involving several defendants be…
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The applicant files infringement action against 5 related companies; defendant 1 and 2 are based in China, defendant 3 in the Netherlands, defendant 4 in Germany and defendant 5 in Taiwan. The claimant argues that…
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Pursuant to Art 51(2) UPCA, any division of the Court of First Instance shall, if a party so requests, provide interpretation, to the extent appropriate, to assist that party during oral proceedings. The aim of…
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Jointly with another party the revocation claimants are defendants in infringement proceedings at the Munich Local Division. The other defendant brought a counterclaim for revocation. With the agreement of the parties,…
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Marc Keschmann achieved a complete revocation of the patent in suit for our client before the EPO Opposition Division and was also successful in the appeal proceedings before the EPO Board of Appeal. The applicant…
Read more →The claimant requested that the Court rule that no further amendments may be filed. The Court sees no legal basis for preventing or categorically excluding the filing of further auxiliary requests or for instructing the…
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The applicant requests that the period for filing a reply to the objection be extended and that the start of period for filing the reply be postponed until the finalization of the secrecy protection proceedings under R…
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An action to a company established in Poland could not be served by post successfully. The Court orders an alternative method of service at the request of the claimant. The claimant is authorized to arrange service by…
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The claimant filed 5 revocation actions. In each of these actions, the defendant (patent proprietor) was designated as "Juul Labs, Inc."; however, the correct name of the patent proprietor is "Juul Labs International,…
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In accordance with the principle of procedural and cost efficiency as well as the principle of fair balance of legitimate interests of the parties – both of which have to be taken into account when interpreting RoP Art…
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The Munich local division has ruled that the defendant in a proceeding about provisional measures has to bear the proceeding costs after it initially left a pre-litigation deadline for submitting a cease-and-desist…
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The appellant appeals against a decision dismissing an application for provisional measures. The patent in suit protects an electronic label system for displaying information, in particular price information. The Court…
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The discretionary decision under Article 111(1) EPC to remit a case or not is to be taken ex officio, at any time during the appeal proceedings. It is not dependent on any request by a party. A request for remittal made…
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Where a single composition at the edge of the scope of the claim and whose ingredients are contained in amounts at the end-values of the claimed ranges, does not achieve a technical effect relevant for the assessment of…
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The claimant and appellant filed an application for preserving evidence and an application for inspection against the defendant. The Local Division of Milan granted both applications. The orders granting them were then…
Read more →The defendant filed a Preliminary objection under Rule 19 of the Rules of Procedure. The judge-rapporteur informed the parties in accordance with R 20.2 RoP that the objection was to be dealt with in the main…
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On May 31, 2024, Romania deposited the instrument of ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) with the Council of the European Union. The ratification took effect on September 1, 2024. Unitary…
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A US company sued a (comparatively smaller) US company for an English-language patent before the Düsseldorf Local Division in German. The defendant requested according to Rule 323 of the Rules of Procedure that the…
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