Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC Dusseldorf LD finds Beko and Arçelik’s slowness to declare willingness — but not absence of Dolby pledge —dispositive of FRAND defense
FRAND case law keeps evolving at the UPC as different cases present different fact patterns.
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UPC CoA stresses duty of full and frank disclosure when inspections are sought ex parte; denies ECJ referral, especially regarding UPCA and RoP
Another appellate opinion from the UPC shows that the referral of certain questions of EU law in Dyson v. Dreame was an exception.
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Trumpf Laser wins second UPC injunction against rival IPG Laser: Dusseldorf LD ruling
Trumpf Laser has won a second UPC case against IPG Laser, one of its two main rivals in the market for high-performance laser equipment for industrial applications. After the Mannheim LD, the Dusseldorf LD has also granted an injunction.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): three CoA rulings; Milan LD rejects Italian language request; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) during the calendar week of March 9, 2026. The UPC rarely puts out new decisions on Mondays before the afternoon, so we now publish our weekly roundups on Monday around noon. 10. Around the court: divergent win rates in Munich LD…
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UPC starts development of case law on damages causation and quantification, applying German as well as alternatively EU/UPC statutes
In an outlier case where the UPC was asked to determine damages based on a German merits ruling, the panel was unconvinced of any damages being attributable to the defendant’s infringement as opposed to other causes.
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OpenAI, Adobe win UPC long-arm appeal; French plaintiff can’t invoke French long-arm statute before Paris LD against non-UPCland defendants
The Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal. did not need to ask the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling in this case.
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UPC’s Munich LD turns into assignment lottery (panel 1 or 2) for patentees; case management disadvantages non-SEP holders; long delays
The situation at the UPC’s Munich LD is reminiscent of a period where at the Munich I Regional Court plaintiffs were praying for their case to be assigned to one panel and not the other.
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Appeals court postpones decision on stay of Broadcom’s German injunction against Renault to April 23; UPC raises concerns over parallel challenges
This is a particularly high-profile German SEP case, and the first SEP injunction against an automaker in Germany in almost four years.
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UPC’s Munich LD clears chipset makers Qualcomm and NVIDIA of infringement: appeals very likely
Today the Munich Local Division’s second panel found no infringement in cases targeting Qualcomm and NVIDIA chipsets.