Category: European Union
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UPC Milan LD stays Spanish long-arm infringement claim pending national revocation: a first
The UPC’s Milan LD confirmed long-arm jurisdiction over Spanish distributor Motocard, but stayed the infringement claim for Spain pending a national revocation action, the first such stay by the UPC.
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BREAKING: China issues regulations countering foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction
The global ZTE v. Samsung FRAND rate-setting decision is potentially a targeted scenario.
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UPC docket distribution is âharmfulâ and âunderminingâ or a ânon-concernâ? European patent attorneys strongly divided
A letter by the European Patent Lawyers Association reveals that most non-German European patent attorneys believe that the current state of the Unified Patent Courtâs (UPC’s) case distribution (currently very German-heavy) is a huge concern and implore the UPC to change its system. Germans, on the other hand, are strongly against intervention.
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BREAKING: Transsion escalates Ericsson patent litigation in UPC, files its first-ever public patent infringement complaint
Transsion has sued Ericsson in the Unified Patent Courtâs Lisbon Local Division over the infringement of one of its patents, marking its first-ever publicly-known patent infringement complaint.
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UPC CoA refers four questions of long-arm jurisdiction to ECJ: scenarios such as where representative for product safety compliance serves as anchor defendant
This article contains table that shows the differences between the four questions, provides easier-to-read version so fall four questions, and explains common scenarios not covered by the questions.
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Google sued in Unified Patent Court by NPE Eyesmatch
NPE Eyesmatch has sued Google in the Unified Patent Courtâs Mannheim Local Division over the alleged infringement of a patent closely related to another it previously enforced against Apple, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Microsoft.
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UPCâs CD Paris hears LED patent revocation claim against Seoul Viosys
The UPCâs CD paris now has to decide an LED technology patent case in which a Seoul Viosys patent has already been partly revoked by the UPCâs Court of Appeal. The claimant, Emporia, asserts that auxiliary requests submitted by the defendant are inadmissible and cannot save the patent from full revocation.
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TSMC patent filing strategy: general decline, âall-inâ on U.S., âtoken presenceâ in Germany
Data exported from Patsnap reveals that Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC has filed more than half of its patents in the U.S. over the past two decades, while filing barely any in Europe, and gradually less and less in China and South Korea.
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EU Commission officially indicates concern over UPC-UK antisuit conflict; UPC CoA schedules InterDigital-Amazon hearing for May 28
The European Commission’s cordial letter to the Mannheim Local Division’s Presiding Judge encourages the court to share further information.