Category: Unified Patent Court
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Pfizer, BioNTech hit back against GSK mRNA suits in UPC, Ireland: file UK revocation actionÂ
The move does not come as a major surprise, given the pharma companiesâ previous success against GlaxoSmithKline in the UK.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): 11 interesting procedural decisions, settlements, and non-default judgment after party waives right of defense
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 31, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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Donald Trump Jr. indirectly collects royalties from Apple through one of his two known patent investments: UPC lawsuit withdrawn
Legendary patent monetizer Erich Spangenberg did it again.
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HMD received AAC license offer from Via more than seven years prior to Fraunhofer’s UPC complaint
A Unified Patent Court order denying an extension of time for HMD’s answer to Fraunhofer’s complaint reveals that Via already made a licensing offer in 2017.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): five-month delay defeats application for provisional measures; clarifications on scope of rejoinder, authorization of counsel; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 24, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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Dolby seeking SEP-based preliminary injunction against Roku as Munich I Regional Court outpaces UPC’s Munich LD by wide margin
Roku is coming under pressure in the Munich I Regional Court with a January 2026 trial date and a SEP-based preliminary injunction motion, but nothing has happened in the UPC.
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BREAKING: Judge Dr. Kircher resigns from Unified Patent Court’s Mannheim Local Division and is succeeded by Judge Sender
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a major success story, and it is remarkable to what extent even very senior judges (such as presiding judges of regional appeals courts) volunteer to serve as side judges on UPC first-instance panels. But this is not for everyone, and there have been a (very) few resignations to date.…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): five CoA decisions, several key first-instance rulings (Spain, purpose statements, exhaustion etc.), new infringement cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 17, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. CoA 1.1 CoA: warnings against continued default must be requested during default proceedings, not as post-decision correction (Microsoft v. Suinno) In a recent order (PDF), the Court of Appeal (CoA) clarified…
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Mixed UPC ruling shows upside and downside of purpose statements, limits of patent exhaustion, susceptibility of claim sets
A highly instructive, well-structured 80-page decision by the Munich LD’s second panel sheds light on several interesting questions of patent law.
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UPC CoA judge clarifies standard for preliminary references to ECJ: UPCA, RoP are not EU laws; EU Charter not sufficient for reference
The UPC has to apply EU law, but the UPC Agreement and the UPC’s Rules of Procedure are not part of the Union acquis.