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COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE MILAN LOCAL DIVISION UPC CFI no. 318/2024, no. 730/2024 DECISION delivered on 6 November 2026 HEADNOTES: 1. Article 32 UPCA does not confer a general and abstract jurisdiction to certify that a patent is standard-essential vis-à-vis a standard-setting organisation or the market as a whole. Neither Article 56 nor Article 64 UPCA provide a basis for a principal de claration of essentiality with erga omnes effect. The UPC may, however, determine essentiality as an incidental issue insofar as necessary to decide an action for infringement or a declaration of non-infringement. That assessment concerns whether implementation of the specific standard necessarily entails implementation of the asserted patent claims. 2. Competence over a claim against an intermediary must be ...