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1 Hamburg – Local Division UPC_CFI_2231/2025 Procedural order of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court, delivered on: 06/11/2026 HEADNOTES 1. The fact, that there is another case with another pool contributor pending against the same Defendants, who raised a FRAND defence in both cases, does not justify postpon ing the - already s cheduled - oral hearing ag ainst the gen eral objective of the UPC that an ora l hearing shall be conducted within one year (Preamble Nr. 7 of RoP). 2. The outcome of a Rate Setting Counterclaim at another Local Division is not prejudicial for the present dispute , as the parties are not identical . The factual implications of the two cases are mutual; any decision on a FRAND defence against a pool contributor , be it by a UPC panel or by a nati ...