Category: Bifurcation of Patent Disputes
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USPTO on pace to quadruple discretionary denials under new interim procedures, report says
Recent data by Unified Patents has found that there were three times more United States Patent & Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board discretionary denial decisions in Q1 2025 than the last record number of decisions (167 in 2020).
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UPC’s Paris LD believes intervenor can’t challenge patent-in-suit in ANY way after defendant failed to bring revocation counterclaim
The Unified Patent Court’s Paris Local Division denied a motion to stay an infringement action over an intervenor’s revocation action filed with the Paris Central Division.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD prioritizes speed, merges infringement and revocation proceedings to get technical judge ASAP
The UPC’s Dusseldorf Local Division decided at an early stage of proceeding to consolidate the proceedings for an infringement action and a revocation counterclaim in order to get a technical judge assigned sooner rather than later.