Recently, the First Regional Court of Munich, Germany, ruled to stay a standard-essential patent (SEP) infringement lawsuit filed by Siemens against Honor, while postponing the trial of another related case until December of this year. Honor has filed separate requests for invalidation of the standard-essential patents (SEPs) involved in these two cases with the German Federal Patent Court.

This case stems from two patent infringement lawsuits filed by Siemens with the Munich Regional Court No. 1 in September 2025, involving EP2070269, titled “Group Scheduling,” and EP2052517, titled “Method and System for Providing Access to a Specific Key,” respectively. Honor subsequently filed requests for invalidation of the two patents with the German Federal Patent Court on January 14 and January 20, 2026.

On July 16, 2026, the First Regional Court of Munich held a hearing on the EP2052517 patent case and issued a stay of proceedings pending the outcome of the invalidation proceedings before the Federal Patent Court. However, at that time, the Federal Patent Court had not yet issued a preliminary opinion on the case.

Meanwhile, the court postponed the hearing for the EP2070269 patent case from its originally scheduled date to December. This was because, after Honor submitted prior art documents, Siemens filed additional auxiliary requests in the invalidation proceedings, and the court needed more time to review this new information.

The First Regional Court of Munich is known for rarely suspending proceedings; while this exception is an isolated case, it has sparked some discussion within the patent community.