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  1. UPC Local Division: Access to the File

    If a request for access to written pleadings and evidence is made by a member of the public under Rule 262.1(b) of the Rules of Procedure, the interests of that member of the public who would gain access to the pleadings and evidence must be balanced against the interests set out in Article 45 of...

  2. UPC Local Division: Confidentiality Order

    In principle, there is no reason to limit a party’s authorized representatives to a certain number or only to representatives admitted before the Unified Patent Court and their internal assistants, who must also be named. It must, however, be clear who is obliged to maintain confidentiality and who...

  3. UPC Local Division: Change in Claim

    A party may apply to the Court at any stage of the proceedings for leave to change its claim. Such an application must state why this amendment
    a) could not have been made with reasonable diligence at an earlier stage, and
    b) will not unreasonably hinder the other party in the conduct of its...

  4. UPC Local Division: Change in Claim

    Initially, the claimant filed auxiliary requests for a limited defense of the patent in suit, which were restricted to the German part of the European patent. Subsequently, the claimant submitted an amendment request under Rule 263 of the Rules of Procedure, specifying that these auxiliary requests...

  5. UPC Local Division: Service of the Statement of Claim

    In the underlying proceedings, the claimant brought an action for patent infringement against several companies of the defendants’ corporate group. These companies also included the defendant in the now-separated and independently conducted proceeding. The separation occurred because service of process...

  6. UPC Local Division: Intervention

    The applicant is the manufacturer of a color- and light-mixing lens system, which was sold by the defendants. None of the parties objected to the application for intervention submitted by the manufacturer of the products at issue. The application for intervention is granted. The legal interest required...

  7. UPC Local Division: Intervention

    Unless otherwise ordered by the Court, an intervener is treated as a party pursuant to Rule 315.4 of the Rules of Procedure. Therefore, just like a party, the intervener may file an application for the protection of confidential information concerning the content of its submissions (Local Division...

  8. UPC Central Division: Amendment of the Patent

    A request to amend the patent in suit that covers both claims challenged by the revocation action and claims not challenged is (only) inadmissible with respect to the latter claims. In a situation where the patent in suit is not fully contested, the patent proprietor is entitled to request amendments...

  9. UPC Local Division: Interpretation, Infringement (Pharmaceutical Formulation)

    The independent product claim protects a pharmaceutical formulation of the anti-IgE antibody rhuMAb E25, characterized by the formulation comprising approximately 150 g/L of the anti-IgE antibody in 0.02 M histidine, 0.2 M arginine-HCl, 0.04% polysorbate 20, at pH 6. A person skilled in the art understands...

  10. UPC Local Division: Interpretation, Validity

    The patent in suit concerns an invention in the field of communication systems and relates, in particular, to high-frequency transmitters used in such systems. The purpose of the patent in suit is to provide a programmable hybrid transmitter that combines the advantages of cartesian-based transmitters...

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