Category: Unified Patent Court
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BREAKING: UPC’s Dusseldorf LD assumes long-arm jurisdiction over UK part of EPO-granted patent
The UPC’s Dusseldorf Local Division deemed the patent-in-suit invalid, but would otherwise have ordered an injunction even with respect to its UK part.
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UPC Roundup (1 week) and update on ip fray subscriptions
There was only a small quantity of Unified Patent Court (UPC) news this week. You find the usual summary below, but let’s start with a quick update on ip fray‘s subscription offering: Update on ip fray subscriptions The previously-announced transition to a mix of premium subscription and free content will happen soon. We are just…
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UPC Roundup (4 weeks): appellate decisions, final judgments, settlements, anti-antisuit injunctions, case management and more
This summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) covers an unusually long period as there were relatively few interesting decisions toward the end of last year and earlier this month. Our previous UPC Roundup was published shortly before the holidays (December 22, 2024 ip fray article). We will now get back…
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UPC’s Court of Appeal: damages claims can be brought in UPC based on national court ruling on merits; damages may predate UPC start
The UPC’s Court of Appeal has made a decision that is of major precedential relevance in two damages-related respects.
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New UPC decision shows Big Tech can’t always switch language of proceedings to English: ParTec v. Nvidia will be key precedent if upheld on appeal
Context: Many Unified Patent Court (UPC) litigators were profoundly concerned when the Court of Appeal (CoA) overturned two parallel decisions to maintain German as the language of proceedings for licensing firm Ona Patents’ infringement actions against Apple and Google (item 4 of this September 25, 2024 ip fray article). While ip fray was not prepared…
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UPC’s Vienna LD hands down its first injunction: Chinese manufacturer’s traffic signal infringe Austrian innovator’s patent, must be recalled and destroyed
Context: Unified Patent Court (UPC) infringement litigation is still heavily concentrated in the four German Local Divisions (LDs), followed by the Hague LD (January 7, 2025 ip fray article). But some plaintiffs have achieved good results by bringing cases in other venues. What’s new: Today the UPC’s Vienna LD, which had previously (late 2023) adjudicated…
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Avago (Broadcom) actually won the UPC’s first-ever anti-antisuit injunction, paved the way for the Huawei v. Netgear AASI that came down two days later
Not only three but even four attempts to derail German (in two cases also UPC) patent enfrocement actions through U.S. antisuit injunctions have failed in recent years.
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Three attempts to use U.S. courts against German (or UPC) patent enforcement actions have failed in recent years: disproven recipe?
It has been tried three times over the past couple of years to leverage U.S. district courts against German courts or the UPC, and it produced nothing but costs.
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UPC updates: Tesla settles with Broadcom; Dyson close to settling with SharkNinja; observations on December filings
Broadcom and Tesla have apparently settled their patent dispute. Dyson and SharkNinja appear to be close to settling their case. And some observations on UPC filings.
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Netgear settles WiFi 6 standard-essential patent dispute with Huawei, takes license to Sisvel pool between Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court rulings
Netgear and Huawei have filed a motion to stay the U.S: litigation started by the router maker in response to enforcement actions in the UPC and German courts.