Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA addresses pre-grant non-infringement actions; Munich LD revokes third Maxell patent; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of September 21, 2026.
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UPC Brussels limits interveners’ ability to pursue independent claims
The UPC’s Brussels LD has rejected the NIH’s bid to be treated as a co-claimant in 2seventy Bio’s infringement case, holding that interveners are limited to supporting the claims of the party they join and cannot pursue an independent litigation position.
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Samsung handed third straight win at UPC as Munich LD revokes Maxell’s Galaxy content-casting patent
The UPC’s Munich LD has revoked a Maxell patent covering phone-to-TV content casting for lack of novelty, dismissing its infringement suit against Samsung’s Galaxy lineup and awarding Samsung €620,000.
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Lord Justice Meade, Lord Justice Birss to speak at OxFirst’s 15th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum
The 15th edition of this event will be held at Oxford University in January. ip fray plans to cover the conference during and after it takes place, and a discount is available for ip fray readers.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA clarifies suspensive effect of revocation appeals; Mannheim injunction over license defense; Munich LD grants PI; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of September 14, 2026.
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Dolby files first-ever patent infringement dispute related to Via Voice Codec Pool
Dolby has sued UK device maker Nothing Technology over a standard-essential patent related to EVS technologies, marking the first action related to Via’s Voice Codec Pool.
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HMD stops selling its smartphones in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands after Fraunhofer’s UPC injunctions
The overlap between the countries in which HMD removed the entire smartphone category from its web offerings and the recent UPC injunctions leaves no room for any other plausible explanation.
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Skysong sues Fortinet, CrowdStrike at UPC over shared AI vulnerability-scoring patent
The Arizona State University patent-licensing arm filed both cases on the same day, pulling the operators of the widely used Exploit Prediction Scoring System into the Fortinet suit and using CrowdStrike’s EU cloud plans to add threatened-infringement claims, as its parallel Texas cases near trial.
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UPC Munich LD grants DivX injunction against Netflix streaming software, departing from EPO Opposition Division’s preliminary view
The Munich LD’s second panel upheld DivX’s patent as granted and enjoined Netflix’s streaming software across 18 UPC countries.
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MediaTek affiliate HFI Innovation sues Snap over video codec patent: fifth infringement case piles onto Snapchat’s growing UPC docket
MediaTek’s HFI Innovation has become the latest licensor to sue Snap over video codec patents at the UPC, joining Dolby, M&K Holdings, and ETRI amid parallel U.S. and Brazilian disputes.