Category: European Union
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IP is the ābasis of Europeās competitivenessā ā it would be āunrealisticā to think otherwise, says IP Europeās new Secretary General Niklas Lagergren
āOur ideas and our intellectual property are basically the only possible basis we have for our future competitiveness,ā Mr. Lagergren, who boasts 30 years in IP policy experience in Brussels, told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Helsinki LD solves part of less-frequented UPC venuesā chicken-and-egg problem
The Helsinki LD adopts the Hague LDās equivalence standard based on an approach that offers greater predictability for litigants considering smaller UPC venues. AIM lost again.
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Belgian SME keeps Dutch at UPC Brussels LD as CFI president rejects Esko’s bid to switch case to English
The President of the UPC Court of First Instance has refused Esko Software’s push for English, keeping a Brussels patent fight in Dutch.
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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 āharmfulā and āunderminingā or a ānon-concernā? 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 Courtās (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 Courtās 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.