Lionra Technologies Ltd v. Cisco Systems GmbH and Cisco Systems, Inc., Order UPC Court of Appeal, Case no. UPC_CoA_360/2025
Extension of deadline for filing the reply to the appeal and the cross-appeal after granting access to the unredacted version of the statement of grounds of appeal
On 19 February 2024, the Hamburg Local Division dismissed Lionra’s infringement action against Cisco and Cisco’s counterclaim for revocation.
Lionra lodged an appeal against the contested decision. On 19 June 2025, Lionra filed its statement of grounds of appeal together with an application under Rule 262A RoP and an application under Rule 262.2 RoP.
On 17 July 2025, the Court of Appeal ruled on Lionra’s applications under Rules 262A and 262.2 and granted Cisco access to the unredacted version of the statement of grounds of appeal. Until that time, Cisco had only had access to a version of the statement of grounds in which information designated by Lionra as confidential had been redacted.
Cisco requests that the deadline for filing the reply to the appeal and the cross-appeal be extended until 17 October 2025.
Lionra requests that Cisco be granted an extension of time not exceeding one week, or alternatively ten calendar days.
The deadline for filing the reply to the appeal and the cross-appeal is extended until 3 October 2025.
“It is undisputed that Cisco is entitled to an extension of time for filing the reply to the appeal and the cross-appeal, as Cisco did not have access to the unredacted version of the statement of grounds at the time of its filing. However, the one month extension requested by Cisco is unreasonably long, since the confidential information to which it only belatedly gained access constitutes a relatively small part of the statement of grounds and concerns Cisco software source code, which was already known to Cisco. The one week or ten calendar day extension requested by Lionra is unreasonably short, since the confidential information includes a new statement by an expert regarding the alleged infringement. The deadline is therefore extended by two weeks.”
The Order can be accessed here.
