Judge Françoise Barutel retires from the UPC’s Court of Appeal for unspecified personal reasons. Her successor will be Emmanuel Gougé, who will leave Pinsent Masons for his judgeship.

Climate change is apparently not a consideration whatsoever in the Unified Patent Court’s judicial appointments to different local or central divisions.

In NEC v. TCL, the Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division denied a motion to shorten time to respond to the complaint because the plaintiff had initially failed to submit material required to prepare a defense.