Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC Roundup (1 week): added-matter invalidation; consolidation request scrutinized; landmark anti-interim-license injunctions
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 28, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC CoA’s added-matter test (similar to EPO gold standard) results in reversal, patent claim invalidation: expert v. Seoul Viosys
The CoA’s second panel has reiterated the added-matter standard it laid out earlier this year in a different case, but this time around a patent got invalidated.
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In major win for Via LA’s Qi charging pool, Philips largely defends, partly strengthens UPC’s first-ever SEP injunction on appeal against Belkin
Philips’s success against Belkin will dissuade others from declining to license Via LA’s wireless-charging pool.
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FOLLOW-UP: Translations and redacted versions of UPC and German anti-interim-license injunctions in InterDigital v. Amazon; further thoughts
As a follow-up to the news we broke yesterday on InterDigital’s two AILIs against Amazon, we can now publish the documents.
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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.