UPC_CFI_665/2024 – Adeia v Walt Disney
- Court
- Local Division Munich
- Date
- Outcome
- Denied
- Sector
- Electronics/SEP
- Decision Type
- PROCEDURAL
Expert Commentary
No bifurcation The Court The court orders as follows: 1. there will be no bifurcation; 2. the interim conference will be on 4 December 2025; 3. the oral hearing will be on 15 January 2026; and 4. the written procedure will end 10 September 2025. Comment All very efficient, but why such a long time between the end of the written proceedings and the interim conference, and such a short time between the interim conference and the oral hearing? It seems that the Local Division is very busy. If the interim conference results in a decision that parties have to do certain things before the oral hearing, time seems awfully short.
Full Decision Text
Local Division Munich UPC_CFI_665/2024 Procedural Order of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court Local Division Munich delivered on 19 March 2025 CLAIMANT Adeia Guides Inc. 3025 Orchard Parkway - CA 95134 - San Jose – US Represented by: Prof. Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy (Bardehle Pagenberg) Supported by: Dr. Georg Anetsberger (Bardehle Pagenberg) DEFENDANTS 1) The Walt Disney Company (Benelux) B.V. Asterweg 15S - 1031HL - Amsterdam – NL 2) Disney Interactive Studios, Inc. 500 South Buena Vista St, - 91521 - Burbank, California – US 3) The Walt Disney Company Limited 3 Queen Caroline Street - W6 9PE - Hammersmith, London - GB Represented by: Dr. Dietrich Kamlah, Dr. Christian Lederer, Dr. Michael Schächinger, Teresa Gaboardi (Taylor Wessing) Supported by: Dr. Joel Nägerl, Dr. Lorenz Walder-Hartmann (Zimmermann & Partner) PATENT AT ISSUE European Patent No. 2 793 430 DECIDING JUDGE The order was made by Presiding Judge Dr Matthias Zigann, acting as Judge-Rapporteur, and the legally qualified judges Mélanie Bessaud and Tobias Pichlmaier. UPC_CFI_665/2024 2 LANGUAGE OF PROCEEDINGS English SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE PROCEEDINGS Rectification of scheduling order (R. 353 RoP) GROUNDS This is a correction of a typo. ORDER The scheduling order dated 18 March 2025 is rectified. Item 4 now reads: “The oral hearing is scheduled for 15 January 2026, 9.00 a.m., in person in Denisstr. 3 in Munich, room 212 and overflow room 220b. “ INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE REGISTRY The scheduling order on the website of the Court is also to be corrected. ORDER DETAILS Order no. ORD_13670/2025 in ACTION NUMBER: ACT_59975/2024 UPC number: UPC_CFI_665/2024 Action type: Infringement Action Dr. Zigann Presiding Judge Bessaud Legally Qualified Judge Pichlmaier Legally Qualified Judge
Key Holdings
- The court ordered that there would be no bifurcation of the proceedings.
- Key procedural dates were set, including the end of written procedure (10 September 2025), interim conference (4 December 2025), and oral hearing (15 January 2026).
- The commentator questioned the efficiency of the timeline, specifically the long gap between written proceedings and the interim conference, and the short period between the interim conference and the oral hearing.
Tags
- Bifurcation
- Case Management
- Time Limits