Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC’s Munich LD: patentees get two months to seek preliminary injunction, defendants get only three invalidity contentions
The Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division believes a preliminary injunction motion filed within a two-month window is timely, and defendants must limit themselves to three invalidity contentions.
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Forthcoming ECJ ruling may enable UPC to expand jurisdiction to non-member states subject to defendant’s legal domicile
A case recently heard by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice may also result in greater geographic reach for the Unified Patent Court.
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UPC Court of Appeal appoints Pinsent Masons partner as judge starting September, will leave his firm and replace Judge Françoise Barutel
Judge Françoise Barutel retires from the UPC’s Court of Appeal for unspecified personal reasons. Her successor will be Emmanuel Gougé, who will leave Pinsent Masons for his judgeship.
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New Unified Patent Court appointments: even more judges will have to commute by plane — oblivious to climate change?
Climate change is apparently not a consideration whatsoever in the Unified Patent Court’s judicial appointments to different local or central divisions.
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On issues with annexes to UPC complaints, Munich LD faithfully applies appellate case law from Sanofi v. Amgen in NEC v. TCL
In NEC v. TCL, the Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division denied a motion to shorten time to respond to the complaint because the plaintiff had initially failed to submit material required to prepare a defense.
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UPC’s Paris LD orders licensing firm to give security, doesn’t accept insurance and requires EU (not U.S.) bank guarantee
Another Unified Patent Court decision on the need to provide security for litigation expenses came down today.
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UPC requires security: with official capital of 1 euro, patent holder seeks PI to complicate offside detection at EURO 2024 soccer tournament
The UPC’s Hamburg Local Division has already determined that the patent-in-suit is simple enough so as not to require the involvement of a technically qualified judge.
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After Champions League final, shortly before EURO: UPC preliminary injunction hearing over offside detection patent asserted against UEFA
The Unified Patent Court’s Hamburg Local Division will hear the preliminary injunction request by Ballinno against UEFA and Kinexon on the first business day after the UEFA Champions League final.
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UPC Court of Appeal leaves reliance on prosecution history for another day, affirms PI denial based on holistic claim construction
The Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal didn’t have to address the question of whether a patent’s prosecution history is relevant to claim construction, as it affirmed the Munich Local Division’s denial of a preliminary injunction on other grounds.
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Good for NPEs and litigation funders: UPC Munich LD denies requests to order U.S.-based licensing firm to provide security for litigation costs
The Unified Patent Court’s Munich Local Division denied a request by Volkswagen, its Audi subsidiary and Texas Instruments that a license firm be ordered to provide security for litigation expenses.