UPC CFI, LD Paris, 23 March 2026: Competence in case of multiple defendants
08-04-2026 Print this pageIPPT20260323, UPC CFI, LD Paris, Valeo v Robert Bosch
Panel review confirming dismissal of preliminary objection (R. 19 RoP).
Competence in case of multiple defendants (Article 33.1(b) UPCA). The commercial link between the defendants does not require a direct commercial link between the so-called ‘anchor’ defendant and each of the other defendants, but rather a commercial link between all the defendants.
The condition that ‘the action concerns the same infringement’, refers to the infringement of the same patent by all the defendants, and does not require that the products alleged to be infringing be identical across all the defendants.
