Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC infringement filings reach 2026 high of 40 in October, German divisions’ monthly share falls to 67.5%
The UPC also logged 11 new stand-alone revocation actions, five provisional measures applications, and 69 first-instance cases overall in October 2026, while The Hague had its busiest month of the year.
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UPC Milan accepts parent-company guarantee in Nixu v. Amazon security-for-costs dispute
The UPC’s Milan Local Division has rejected Amazon’s €600,000 security-for-costs request against Nixu, finding that a parent-company guarantee provides sufficient protection despite potential enforcement complications under Texas law.
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Moderna and GlaxoSmithKline settle mRNA vaccine dispute with cross-license; “not obligated to make payments”
The agreement settles pending litigation in the United States and Europe.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA tightens costs recovery requirements; Dusseldorf LD rejects PI for lack of urgency; Milan LD delivers setback to Ericsson; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of November 2, 2026.
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UPC’s first-ever successful FRAND defense: Milan LD sides with ASUS against Ericsson
For the first time in history, a FRAND defense has succeeded in the UPC (subject to an appeal).
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BREAKING: ZTE-Samsung patent dispute ends as key UPC Mannheim case is withdrawn; several courts supported ZTE’s FRAND rate
ZTE and Samsung have presumably settled their multijurisdictional dispute through a license agreement. A UPC case that would likely have led to an injuntion against Samsung has been withdrawn by mutual consent.
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New German UPC panels would ‘work directly against UPCA principle’: lobbyists assert in letter to UPC
The CCIA, FSA, ACT, IP2Innovate, and ACEA have noted that the UPCA expressly limits the number of Local Divisions per Member State, yet the subsequent trend establishing multiple panels within German Local Divisions works directly against this principle.
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UPC Dusseldorf grants Dai Nippon Printing injunction against Zapp over OLED mask foil patent, rejects prior public use defense
The Dusseldorf LD has found that Zapp’s SuperClean Invar 36 foils infringe a Dai Nippon Printing patent and held that Zapp’s lab tests could not prove its prior public use defense.
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UPC CoA sets aside Hague LD’s default judgment; explanation for default is informational, not a plea for relief
The Court of Appeal sets aside a default judgment in a mushroom patent dispute, ruling that once an application to set aside meets the procedural requirements of Rule 356, the court must allow it, the explanation for the default need not prove absence of fault.
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DAZN hit with parallel HEVC patent suits in Munich I Regional Court, UPC
Velos Media has filed a German infringement action against sports streamer DAZN over an HEVC encoding patent, on the same day it also brought a separate UPC suit in Munich.