Category: Unified Patent Court
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BREAKING: InterDigital wins world’s first-ever anti-interim-license injunctions: UPC, Munich I Regional Court enjoin Amazon
The same law firm that won the first-ever German anti-antisuit injunction (AASI) and first-ever German AAASI has made history again with the first AILIs in the UPC and Germany.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): another trade fair inspection order; two UPC confidentiality decisions and one in India with reference to UPC
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 21, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC CoA allows Apple to intervene in Ericsson-ASUS, Sun Patent Trust-vivo cases to seek enhanced protection of SEP license agreements
The CoA has addressed not only the admissibility of an intervention for the specific purpose of protecting confidential information but also a mootness question raised by vivo.
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Delhi HC denies Nokia’s request to impose more restrictions on use of confidential SEP license information than UPC Munich
This article is available for free because the related enforcement campaign involves video streaming patents. It is a protective order that resolves a few disputed questions of FRAND disclosure.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): unitary effect denial upheld; evidence-gathering at IFA; 473-page PI pleading held excessive
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 14, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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HP unlikely to defend against Huawei in UPC due to Munich’s intra-district assignment tradition: same WiFi patent defeated Netgear
The UPC’s Munich LD applies a long-standing rule it adopted from the Munich I Regional Court when a patent was previously litigated in the same division.
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UPC’s Paris Local Division may have to choose or design test for infringement by equivalence in gutter patent case
The UPC’s Paris LD now has to decide a gutter patent case, whereas the word “gutter” is meant literally and not meant to disparage the patent or the case.
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UPC enabled Ecovacs’s inspection of Roborock household robots at last week’s IFA Berlin trade show; infringement suit pending
The Dusseldorf LD authorized evidence-gathering, but declined an invitation to allow an unfettered fishing excpedition. It may be the lengthiest operative part of a UPC order to date.
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Samsung, Headwater settle wireless patent dispute
Samsung and Headwater Research have settled a two-year patent infringement dispute.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): PI granted despite debatable urgency, direct infringement clarified, protection of attorney–client privilege, new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 6, 2025 UPC Roundup.