Category: Unified Patent Court
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BREAKING: InterDigital and Amazon will determine video patent licensing terms through arbitration
The parties have agreed to withdraw all infringement and (F)RAND litigation in favor of binding arbitration.
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Dusseldorf LD’s latest injunction shows structural improvement of UPC’s English-language decisions authored by German judges
The judgment, authored by Judge-rapporteur Dr. Ingo Rinken, discusses the parties’ and the court’s views in a format that makes it clearer than mny other UPC rulings whose positions are actually being stated.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD enjoins Siemens mammography product over Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent, refusing a €4 billion security demand
The UPC’s Dusseldorf LD held Siemens Healthineers’ MAMMOMAT B.brilliant infringes Hologic’s flying-focal-spot patent in three countries, relying on Siemens’s own marketing. It granted an injunction and recall, ordered destruction, and refused Siemens’s €4 billion enforcement-security demand.
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UPC’s Hague LD allows phased “external eyes only” regime in Ericsson v. Transsion FRAND dispute
The Hague LD has allowed Ericsson to keep its comparable license agreements away from Transsion’s in-house employees for now, adopting a phased confidentiality approach that could become influential in future SEP and FRAND disputes before the UPC.
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French patent attorney’s figures show Paris patent court filings falling sharply since UPC launch
A French patent litigator has published data suggesting a correlation between the UPC’s arrival and falling patent case numbers before France’s sole first-instance patent court, fueling fresh discussion about the UPC’s impact on national litigation systems.
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Think twice before filing in the UPC if you foresee a private-prior-use defense under German law: further Fujifilm v. Kodak analysis
There are opportunities in the UPC, but sometimes there can be a downside. The CoA’s Fujifilm v. Kodak decision lays out a permissive approach to (German) prior use in evidentiary, substantive, and procedural terms.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): security decisions (no SME bonus, parent company doesn’t count); two failed infringement lawsuits; more
This is a summary of developments in and around the UPC in the calendar week of June 1, 2026.
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Neither does the UPC need Spain and Poland — nor vice versa; but Ireland is an unfortunate outlier among non-members
The reluctance of Poland and Spain to join the UPC is overemphasized in the UPC docket distribution debate. Realistically, only some individuals — but not the countries in question — have something to gain from UPC membership.
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UPC grants Samsung two-week extension to comment on court’s proposal for settlement with ZTE, Samsung risks unwillingness finding
Samsung’s request for an extension of time by a full month appeared unreasonable (if not outrageous) to the UPC’s Mannheim LD.
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Podcast: marking UPC’s three-year anniversary with UPC litigator Dr. Wim Maas (Winston Taylor)
In our latest podcast episode, ip fray interviewed Wim Maas, partner and trial attorney at Winston Taylor, who is a very frequent user of the Unified Patent Court.