UPC_CFI_361/2025 – Sun v Vivo
- Court
- Local Division Paris
- Date
- Sector
- Other
- Decision Type
- PROCEDURAL
Expert Commentary
Preparation of oral hearing The JR 1. The JR sets three days for the oral hearing. 2. The JR orders the parties to submit a summary of all arguments of at most 50 pages. Comment 1. I assume that, closer to the date of the oral hearing, the JR will circulate a kind of agenda (with time limits?), particularly given that a three-day hearing is exceptional. 2. If you cannot be brief (which is an art), you should at least start each submission with a summary.
Full Decision Text
1 Paris Local Division UPC CFI 361/2025 Procedural Order of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court delivered on 22/05/2026 CLAIMANT 1) Sun Patent Trust 437 Madison Avenue, 35th Floor 10022 - New York - US Represented by Sabine Agé DEFENDANTS 1) Vivo Mobile Communication Iberia SL Calle Orense 58, Planta 12 C 28020 - Madrid – ES 2) 3) Vivo Tech GmbH Speditionstrasse 21 40221 - Düsseldorf – DE Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. No. 1, Vivo Road, Chang'an Town 523866 - Dongguan City, Guangdong - CN Represented by Dr Georg Andreas Rauh 2 PATENT AT ISSUE Patent no. Proprietor EP3852468 Sun Patent Trust DECIDING JJUDGE Presiding judge & Camille Lignières Judge-rapporteur LANGUAGE OF PROCEEDINGS: English ORDER Following the online case management meeting of 21 May 2026 with the parties’ representatives, the Judge rapporteur orders that: -The dates for the Oral Hearing are amended (see Order setting the dates of 16/01/2026) as follows: -9 September 2026, at 2 pm Paris time, in person, UPC Paris Local Division, 5 rue Saint- Germain l’Auxerrois 75001 Paris, -and 10 and 11 September 2026, 9h30 am Paris time, in person, Tribunal des activités économiques de Paris, salle internationale, 1 Quai de la Corse, 75004 Paris. -The representatives file a summary submission (including their main arguments already in the debate at the time of the closing of the written procedure and updated claims regarding the technical part and the FRAND matters) of a maximum of 50 pages (police 12, Calibri), by 21 July 2026. Issued on 22 May 2026. C. LIGNIERES, Judge rapporteur 3 ORDER DETAILS Date of issue: 22/05/2026 UPC number: UPC CFI 361/2025 ACTION number: ACT 18933/2025 Action type: Infringement Action
Key Holdings
- The Judicial Rapporteur (JR) can set multi-day oral hearings (e.g., three days).
- The JR can order parties to submit a summary of all arguments, with specified page limits (e.g., 50 pages).
- For longer oral hearings, an agenda with time limits is expected to be circulated by the JR.
- Parties are advised to be brief in submissions or to start each submission with a summary.
Tags
- Oral Hearing
- Procedure
- Submissions
- Case Management