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UPC – April 2025 version of the Case load of the Court

04 Apr 2025

The UPC just issued the April 2025 version of the Case load of the Court

🏛️Court of First Instance

Since the start of operations on 1 June 2023, the Court has received a total of 798 cases (98 new since the last update)

⚖️ Infringement actions and counterclaims

– 289 infringement actions are filed as follows:

Local Divisions:

Munich 101
Düsseldorf 58
Mannheim 41
Hamburg 21
Paris 18
The Hague 18
Milan 14
Nordic Baltic regional division 7
Copenhagen 3
Brussels 2
Vienna 2

Helsinki, Lisbon, Paris central division and Milan central division have received 1 infringement action each.

– 285 counterclaims for revocation, coming from 160 individual infringement actions have been filed with the Court’s local and regional divisions.

⚖️ Revocation actions

There is a total of 57 stand-alone revocation actions filed to date with the Court. Paris central division has received 42 revocation actions, 8 revocation actions have been filed with Munich central division and 7 with Milan central division.

⚖️ Provisional measures

The Court of First Instance has received 79 applications for provisional measures, preserving evidence and orders for inspection.

🏛️ Court of Appeal

To date, the Court of Appeal has received:

58 appeals under RoP220.1 (litera a or b);
37 appeals under RoP220.1 litera c;
79 appeals under RoP220.2; and
3 appeals under RoP221.

The Court of Appeal has also received 15 requests for discretionary review, 18 applications for suspensive effect and 25 applications for an order for expedition of an appeal. Three applications for rehearing under RoP245 have also been filed.

📢 Language of proceedings (CFI only – all proceeding types)

English: 54 percent
German: 39 percent

The complete report can be read here online.