The Latest on The UPC
UPC Court of Appeal Clarifies Jurisdiction on indirect infringement
Aylo Premium Ltd, Aylo Billing Limited and Aylo Freesites Ltd v Dish Technologies and Sling TV UPC_CoA_188/2024 Order of 3 September 2024 ORD_42716/2024[1] Dish is the proprietor of EP 2479680 and Sling its exclusive licensee. The patent relates to...
UPC Refuses Provisional Injunction finding imminent infringement not substantiated
Novartis AG and Genentech, Inc. v Celltrion Inc. UPC_CFI_166/2024 Novartis AG and Genentech, Inc. v Celltrion Healthcare Hungary Kft., Celltrion Healthcare Deutschland GmbH, Celltrion Healthcare Belgium SPRL, Celltrion Healthcare France SAS, Celltrio...
Paris local division revokes DexCom patent
DexCom, Inc. v Abbott Laboratories and nine other Abbott entities (UPC_CFI_230/2023) Decision of 4 July 2024 (ORD_37297/2024) [1] The second decision on the merits from the UPC, following just a day after the first, comes from the Paris Local Divis...
Abbott v. Sibio: a tale of two applications for provisional measures
The Hague Local Division of the Court of First Instance of the UPC has recently issued two decisions concerning provisional measures involving the same parties - the Patentee Applicant, Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc., and the Defendants, Sibio Technology L...
Defective opt out allows revocation action to proceed at the UPC
Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA v Neo Wireless GbmH & Co KG (UPC_CoA_79/2024) Appeal against Order no. 597664/2023[1] in case UPC_CFI_361/2023 of the Central Division, Paris seat Order of 4 June 2024 (ORD_30505/2024)[2] Neo Wireless LLC (Neo USA) w...
UPC rules it has jurisdiction in cases where a claim is brought in violation of a contract
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc., Tandem Diabetes Care Europe B.V. v Roche Diabetes Care GmbH (UPC_CFI_589997/2023) Order of 10 May 2024 (ORD_7903/2024) [1] Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc & Tandem Diabetes Care Europe B.V. (“Tandem”) have sued...
UPC Court of Appeal Confirms Deadline to Appeal Orders
AIM Sport Vision v Supponor UPC_CoA_500/2023 Order of 26 April 2024 (ORD_23089/2024) There has been confusion in some of the first instance divisions of the Unified Patent Court as to whether certain judgments constitute a “Decision” wh...
National or UPC jurisdiction for damages?
Fives ECL, SAS v REEL GmbH (UPC_CFI_274/2023) Order of 17 November 2023 On 8 August Fives ECL, SAS (“Fives”) lodged in hard copy a claim for the determination of damages. It was not possible to file this electronically because the CMS ...
Separate revocation claim and counterclaim both to proceed
Meril Italy srl v Edwards Life Sciences Corporation (551308/2023; UPC_CFI_255/2023) Order of 13 November 2023 (ORD_578356/2023) Background On 1 June 2023 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (“Edwards”) sued Meril GmbH and Meril Life Scie...
Opt-out Withdrawal Ineffective: Choices have Consequences!
AIM Sport Vision AG v Supponor Oy & Others (UPC_CFI_214/2023) Decision of 20 October 2023 (ORD_572699/2023 and ORD_5821/2023) Facts & Main Arguments These proceedings before the Unified Patent Court Helsinki Division were in respect of E...
CFI clarifies scope for preliminary objections
Order ORD_576853/2023 [1] dated 29 Sept 2023 by Local Chamber Munich (Presiding Judge and Rapporteur Mr. Zigann) in the case Edwards Lifesciences Corp. vs. Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. Introduction Edwards (in the following “C...
10x Genomics not successful second time around
On the same day that the decision granting 10x Genomics a provisional injunction against NanoString on the basis of the unitary patent EP4108782 was announced (19 September 2023), there also took place a hearing to consider a further provisional injunc...
First to file at the UPC
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH & Others v Amgen Inc - Order of 24 August 2023 Background On the opening day of UPC, 1 June 2023, Amgen sued Sanofi for infringement of EP 3,666,797 in the Munich local division and on the same day Sanofi sought ...
