Valeo may proceed with one of its claims against Bosch concerning windscreen wiper technology for cars at the Paris central division. The Court of Appeal clarified that the central division, rather than the local division in Düsseldorf, has jurisdiction over the claim because two Bosch companies are not based in UPC member states. The central division may now receive more cases. 3 July 2026 by Mathieu Klos Valeo has achieved a partial victory in its wiper dispute with Bosch. The Court of Appeal referred one of the two infringement claims back to the central division (case IDs: UPC-CoA-4/2026 and UPC-CoA-13/2026). Previously, the central division in Paris, under presiding judge and judge-rapporteur François Thomas, had declared that it lacked jurisdiction and referred the claim to the local division in Düsseldorf (case ID: UPC_CFI_809/2025). The Court of Appeal, presided over by judge Klaus Grabinski, has now overturned this decision. Judges Emmanuel Gougé and Ingeborg Simonsson also participated in the decision. At the heart of this jurisdictional dispute are two of the six defendant Robert Bosch companies, which are not based within the UPC’s territory. Robert Bosch Do Beograd is based in Serbia and Bosch Automotive Products Co. in China. Valeo had based the jurisdiction of the Paris central division on Article 33(1) of the UPC Agreement. This states that “actions against defendants having their residence, or principal place of business or, in the absence of residence or principal place of business, their place of business, outside the territory of the Contracting Member States shall be brought before the local or regional division in accordance with point (a) of the first subparagraph or before the CD”. Valeo argued that the non-UPC defendants could serve as anchor defendants to justify the jurisdiction of the central division. Robert Bosch had taken a different view and