Author: Florian Mueller
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Munich I Regional Court orders one month of imprisonment over sustained refusal to provide information on past patent infringement: unprecedented order
In a litigation between two Japanese glass manufacturers one party was found to have disobeyed a key part of a patent infringement ruling that came down in April 2025.
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BMW seeks U.S. antisuit and anti-anti-antisuit injunction against NPE Onesta’s Munich lawsuit over two U.S. patents: Western District of Texas
The first-ever assertion of U.S. patents in a German court has now drawn, anything but unexpectedly, countermeasures in U.S. district court.
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BREAKING: Chinese FRAND determination in ZTE v. Samsung could come down any day now and set new Chinese speed record
A pretrial hearing in London revealed that a Chinese FRAND determination for a ZTE-Samsung SEP license is imminent.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD denies recall over indirect infringement; clarifies damages period, interim damages, non-inventiveness pleading standard
Not only substantial non-infringing use in the territory covered by the patent-in-suit but also the possibility of exports to other countries weighs against a recall.
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Double jeopardy takes down Sanofi’s cabazitaxel use patent as UPC’s Munich LD revokes after EPO BoA affirmance
Lawyers representing generics makers welcomed the UPC’s decision to revoke the patent regardless of a prior EPO decision to the contrary.
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U.S. appeals court to Apple: now prove the value of your IP in district court (for the first time since the Samsung patent spat)
An appellate ruling that largely upheld contempt sanctions imposed on Apple will now lead to further proceedings in district court.
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UK court order following Amazon v. InterDigital antisuit hearing just serves as summary of status quo; big elephant remains in room
It was already clear during the recent Amazon v. InterDigital hearing in London that the UK antisuit injunction would remain in place.
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Sun Patent Trust’s UPC action may dissuade automaker Geely from peacemeal resolution; Bardehle becomes first law firm to be on both sides of Avanci
It is unclear why Geely is betting on licensing strategies that Volkswagen and Mercedes previously abandoned.
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UPC’s Roche-Menarini preliminary injunction clarifies relationship between independent product and manufacturing method claims
An independent method claim cannot, without more, result in further requirements for the infringement of an independent product claim.
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U.S. and Asian companies bring vast majority of major Unified Patent Court infringement cases, reflective of EU weakness in innovation
About one third of the last 100 UPC infringement actions were brought by companies headquartered in a contracting member state, but most of them are small.