Month: September 2025
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UPC’s Milan Local Division hears Progress Maschinen v. AWM two years after erroneous dismissal
The UPC’s Milan LD now has to decide a lattice girder welding machine patent case, whereas the defendant claims the alleged infringing machines use technology it had already discovered as far back as 2008 (before the patent-in-suit was issued).
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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Interview with IP dealmaker Arvin Patel (of Nokia, TiVo, Technicolor fame), who just became managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP
Top-notch IP dealmaker Arvin Patel is now a managing director at Erich Spangenberg’s SIM IP.
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Doctrine of equivalents removes painkiller from German market: Grünenthal wins preliminary injunction on appeal
A pharma patent and unfair competition dispute has taken a remarkable turn as the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court granted a preliminary injunction based on infringement by equivalents.
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UPC’s Paris Local Division may have to choose or design test for infringement by equivalence in gutter patent case
The UPC’s Paris LD now has to decide a gutter patent case, whereas the word “gutter” is meant literally and not meant to disparage the patent or the case.
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UPC enabled Ecovacs’s inspection of Roborock household robots at last week’s IFA Berlin trade show; infringement suit pending
The Dusseldorf LD authorized evidence-gathering, but declined an invitation to allow an unfettered fishing excpedition. It may be the lengthiest operative part of a UPC order to date.
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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): PI granted despite debatable urgency, direct infringement clarified, protection of attorney–client privilege, new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 6, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC’s Mannheim LD orders injunction, identifies direct infringement where two units of same product are combined to infringe
If a given product does not literally implement the patent invention alone, but two units of it are (and are intended to be) combined, then that’s direct infringement.
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Regeneron makes strides in global Eylea patent enforcement campaign: settles with Sandoz, files fresh UK suits
Regeneron has settled its year-long patent infringement dispute with Sandoz over several patents related to its eye disease drug Eylea, and filed a fresh lawsuit against two more rivals over the same drug in the High Court of Justice for England & Wales.