Month: March 2026
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Colombia pushes for compulsory licensing of U.S. pharma company’s patents
Colombia’s Health Minister has revived a previous administration’s investigation into four of U.S. pharma company Gilead’s patents at the core of Hepatitis-C treatment, issuing a public interest declaration to make the licensing of such patents compulsory.
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UPC CoA stresses duty of full and frank disclosure when inspections are sought ex parte; denies ECJ referral, especially regarding UPCA and RoP
Another appellate opinion from the UPC shows that the referral of certain questions of EU law in Dyson v. Dreame was an exception.
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HMD files complaint accusing Federal Court of Justice of Germany of violating constitutional rights in ongoing VoiceAge EVS case
In a constitutional complaint filed in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, HMD has alleged that the Federal Court of Justice of Germany’s refusal to refer “essential questions” of EU law to the European Court of Justice constitutes a “violation of its constitutional right to the lawful judge”.
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Trumpf Laser wins second UPC injunction against rival IPG Laser: Dusseldorf LD ruling
Trumpf Laser has won a second UPC case against IPG Laser, one of its two main rivals in the market for high-performance laser equipment for industrial applications. After the Mannheim LD, the Dusseldorf LD has also granted an injunction.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): three CoA rulings; Milan LD rejects Italian language request; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) during the calendar week of March 9, 2026. The UPC rarely puts out new decisions on Mondays before the afternoon, so we now publish our weekly roundups on Monday around noon. 10. Around the court: divergent win rates in Munich LD…
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Unitree Robotics to proceed with IPO after successfully defeating “malicious” patent infringement claims
A court in China has dismissed a pair of patent infringement suits filed against humanoid robot manufacturer Unitree Robotics after finding that the plaintiff “violated the purpose of IP protection” by engaging in “malicious litigation”.
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UPC starts development of case law on damages causation and quantification, applying German as well as alternatively EU/UPC statutes
In an outlier case where the UPC was asked to determine damages based on a German merits ruling, the panel was unconvinced of any damages being attributable to the defendant’s infringement as opposed to other causes.
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First U.S. patent long-arm assertions in German court withdrawn with prejudice as Onesta settles with Qualcomm; separately, NVIDIA settled
The realistic best-case scenario for BMW materialized with respect to costs. But the overall course of events will not completely discourage others from pulling an Onesta.
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OpenAI, Adobe win UPC long-arm appeal; French plaintiff can’t invoke French long-arm statute before Paris LD against non-UPCland defendants
The Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal. did not need to ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling in this case.
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Apple settles wide-angle camera patent infringement dispute in District of Delaware after successfully invoking “single-means” doctrine
Apple has settled two parallel actions brought by Canada’s Immervision over the alleged infringement of the latter’s wide-angle camera-related patents, bringing the companies’ five-year dispute to an end.