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Court of Appeal, July 23, 2024, order on appeal, UPC_CoA_177/2024
Application for preservation of evidence or inspection of premises implies a request to disclose the report on the outcome: The legitimate purpose of the procedure for the preservation of evidence or the inspection of premises (Art. 60 UPCA, R. 192 et seq.) includes the use of the evidence to decide whether to initiate proceedings on…
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LD The Hague, 4 March 2024, Order on confidentiality regarding financial information, UPC_CFI_239/2023
Limitation to “attorneys eyes only” possible under R. 262A RoP on protection of confidential information: Claimants applied for a confidentiality order (R. 262A RoP) regarding financial information which did not relate to the main action but to Defendant’s request for security for costs (R. 158 RoP). The LD The Hague decided that access to confidential…
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LD Duesseldorf, 26 February 2024, procedural order on language of proceedings, UPC_CoA_335/2023
Applications on change of language require substantiated reasons: The Applicant requested for a change of language from German into English (Art. 49(5) UPCA, R. 322 RoP). It argued that both parties were English speaking companies, that it was an SME and translation costs would be disproportionately disadvantageous for it. Also, this would enable the CoA…
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CoA Luxembourg, 26 February 2024, procedural order on application to stay, UPC_CoA_3352023
No stay of proceedings if party was declared insolvent after the oral hearing had concluded and the legal dispute was ready for a decision, R. 311.1 RoP, Art. 41 (3) UPCA: A court shall stay the proceedings if a party is declared insolvent, R.311.1. However, the Rules must be interpreted in accordance with Art. 41(3)…
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CD Munich, 27 February 2024, order to combine cases in revocation actions, UPC_CFI_1/2023, UPC_CFI_14/2023
Counterclaim for revocation can be combined with central revocation action against the same patent upon request by the parties: The parties agreed that the counterclaim for revocation pending at LD Munich should be dealt with together with an earlier filed and considerably further advanced central revocation action pending at the CD. The LD Munich thus…
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LD Düsseldorf, 21 February 2024, procedural order on counterclaim for revocation, UPC_CFI_355/2023
Official form for counterclaim of revocation shall be used : Although the Statement of defence shall include a Counterclaim for revocation, the parties shall make use of the official forms available online. In practice, this means that the Counterclaim for revocation must also be filed in the workflow provided for this purpose by the CMS.…
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CD Paris, 27 February 2024, order on request to amend the patent, UPC_CFI_255/2023
Request to further “amend the case” or “amend the patent” by defendant in revocation action due to invalidity attacks brought in the parallel counterclaim for revocation was rejected: Defendant in revocation action applied to amend the patent in due time, i.e, within the time period for lodging the defence to revocation. It then requested a…
