Category: Unified Patent Court
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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.
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Dyson wins UPC’s first Spanish injunction: first BSH-based preliminary injunction, first BSH injunction based on anchor defendant
The UPC’s Hamburg LD has granted the UPC’s first-ever Spanish injunction, and the Hague LD affirmed, by panel decision, an order in a different case involving non-UPC countries.
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ETRI files HEVC SEP lawsuit against Hisense with UPC shortly after suing Transsion over same patent
Korea’s ETRI is now enforcing the same HEVC patent against two different Chinese defendants: smartphone maker Transsion as well as TV maker Hisense.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA clarifies two key prerequisites to suspension of enforcement; deposit may be used to offset costs; new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 10, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. CoA 1.1 CoA overturns denial of PI based on different take on imminent infringement (Boehringer Ingelheim v. Zentiva) (link to detailed article) The CoA has overturned a Lisbon LD decision that…
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Boehringer wins nintedanib PI against Zentiva as UPC CoA reverses Lisbon LD on when infringement is imminent, clarifies how to argue national law
Context: Three months ago, the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Lisbon Local Division (LD) denied an application for provisional measures (which in some other jurisdictions would be called a motion for a preliminary injunction (PI)) by Boehringer Ingelheim against Zentiva, holding that an infringement did not appear imminent (item 2 of our May 10, 2025 UPC…
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UPC’s Hague LD clarifies reimbursement of costs when infringement claim and revocation counterclaim differ in scope
This decision by the Hague LD in a food waste management case centered on validity. The patent survived only in a form for which no infringement was claimed.