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CoA Luxemburg, August 26, 2024, Order concerning a request for security for costs of a party in the Court of Appeal, CoA_328_2024
A party can rely on R.158 RoP and R.222.2 RoP to request the Court of Appeal to order theother party to provide adequate security for the legal costs and other expenses incurredand/or to be incurred by the requesting party in the appeal proceedings.: Article 69(4) UPCA provides that, at the request of the defendant, the…
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LD Hamburg, August 26, 2024, Decision, UPC_CFI_54/2023
Failure to use the correct workflows provided by the CMS does not result in a violation of the deadlines resulting from the Rules of Procedure, Rule 4.1 sentences 1 and 2 RoP. In the initial phase of the UPC – the present action was filed on the first day of the UPC, 1 June 2023…
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LD Munich, August 27, 2024, order on provisional measures, UPC_CFI_74/2024
Direct infringement of a device claim : In certain cases, there could be a direct infringement of a device claim if the patent infringer appropriates the actions of its customer in the sense of an “extended workbench” (in German: “verlängerte Werkbank”) and it would be unreasonable to hold the infringer liable only for indirect patent…
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RD Nordic-Baltic, Procedural order on stay of proceedings, UPC_CFI_380/2023
During the written procedure, Article 33(10) UPCA and Rule 295(a) RoP give the Court a possibility to stay proceedings relating to a patent which is also the subject of opposition proceedings before the EPO if a rapid decision may be expected from the EPO: The Court must respect the fundamental right to an effective legal…
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CD Paris, August 21, 2024, Order on stay of revocation proceedings, UPC_CFI_230/2024
Stay of revocation action pursuant to Rule 295(m) RoP: An appeal against the denial of provisional measures does generally not justify a stay of revocation proceedings pursuant to Rule 295(m) RoP. Rule 295(m) RoP must be applied and interpreted in accordance with the principle according to which proceedings must be conducted in a way which…
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CoA, August 21, 2024, Order on a request for a discretionary review pursuant to R. 220.3 RoP, UPC_CoA_469/2024
The exclusion of a specific natural person from the confidentiality club in the context of a R. 262.A order requires concrete reasons: The abstract risk that an in-house counsel could breach the confidentiality obligation due to conflicts of interest if the in-house counsel is included in the group of persons entitled to access confidential information…
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CoA, August 21, 2024, order on an application pursuant to R. 9.1 RoP, UPC_CoA_469/2024
R.9.1 RoP cannot be interpreted as giving the parties the right to file motions on their own initiative.: According to R. 9.1 RoP, the Court may, at any stage of the proceedings, of its own motion or on a reasoned request by a party, make a procedural order such as to order a party to…
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CoA, August 21, 2024, order on application pursuant to R. 9.1 RoP and summons of the parties to the oral hearing, UPC_CoA_354/2024
An application under R.36 RoP can only be made before the closure of the interim procedure, and further pleadings may only be filed after an application under R. 36 RoP has been made: For the appeal procedure, R.239.2 RoP conclusively determines when the written procedure is completed. As soon as the judge-rapporteur considers the appeal…
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CoA Luxemburg, August 21, 2024, Order concering an application for a discretionary review by the CoA under Rule 220.3 RoP, UPC_CoA_454/2024
An appeal against an order denying a request to reject an action as manifestly bound tofail according to R.361 RoP is admissible under the requirements of R.220.2 and R.220.3 RoP: A discretionary review by the Court of Appeal pursuant to R.220.3 RoP is only admissible if leave to appeal against the impugned order is required…
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CoA Luxemburg, August 19, 2024, Decision concerning suspensive effect of appeal against preliminary injunction, UPC_CoA_388/2024
It is not a requirement that a request for suspensive effect is lodged in a separate workflow in theCourt’s case management system: This may be done separately, and is advisable if an order is required urgently. It cannot however be inferred from R.223 RoP that the lodging in a separate workflow is a requirement in…
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LD Vienna, August 12, 2024, Procedural order on publicity of pleadings and evidence, UPC_CFI_33/2024
Weighing of interests when deciding on a request for the provision of pleadings and evidence pursuant to R 262.1 (b) RoP: If a request for the provision of pleadings and evidence is made by a member of the public pursuant to R 262.1 (b) RoP, the interests of that member of the public to have…
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RD Nordic-Baltic, August 20, 2024, Procedural Order, UPC_CFI_380/2023
Security for legal costs, party located in the United States: Since the imposition of a security for legal costs constitutes a restriction of the right to an effective remedy before a court, the need to protect the defendant has to be weighed against the burden on the claimant caused by an order to provide a…
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LD Paris, August 21, 2024, Procedural order, UPC_CFI_358/2023
Only the arguments according to its written corresponding proceeding are considered : R. 36 RoP allows the parties to request additional written submissions from the judge rapporteur on a reasoned request, in order to ensure that the principles of flexibility and adaptability and the general principle of justice and fairness set out in point 2…
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LD Hamburg, August 9, 2024, Procedural order concerning confidentiality, UPC_CFI_278/2023
The existence of a trade secret does not have to be established to the court’s satisfaction, but it is sufficient if this is predominantly probable: The existence of a trade secret does not have to be established to the court’s satisfaction, but it is sufficient if this is predominantly probable, as shown by the wording…
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LD Duesselorf, August 8, 2024, Procedural order concerning confidentiality, UPC_CFI_140/2024
No reason to limit access for authorised representative’s team: Normally, in main proceedings there is no reason to limit the party’s representatives who have access to confidential information to a certain number of team members or even to UPC representatives and their internal assistants. To fullfill the requirement of R. 262A.6 RoP (number of persons…
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CD Paris, July 29, 2024, Decision concerning the revocation action No. ACT_555899/2023, UPC_CFI_263/2023
Admissibility of defense with non-attacked claims: The request to amend the patent which concerns both claims challenged by the revocation action and claims not challenged by it is inadmissible (only) with regard to these latter claims. Defense with features from non-attacked claims admissible: In a situation in which the patent is not entirely attacked, the…
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CoA Luxembourg, July 29, 2024, Order concerning service of a Statement of claim, UPC_CoA_69/2024 & UPC_CoA_70/2024
Service in China or Hong Kong: A defendant company in China or Hong Kong cannot be served a Statement of claim by email to a person who is not authorised to accept service. Neither can such service be made by public service in the form of a written notice to be displayed in the publicly…
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