Category: Unified Patent Court
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UPC allows Amazon to create private transcripts based on court’s recordings of hearings
The UPC CoA has clarified that parties may prepare private transcripts of oral hearings under Rule 115 RoP, including with the assistance of supervised stenographers, while maintaining strict control over the underlying audio recordings.
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Long-arm in UPC is easier sued than done: CoA hearing showed opportunities and homework; UK and other foreign lawyers can add value
At yesterday’s Fujifilm-Kodak hearing, the Unified Patent Court’s Court of Appeal explained that in some circumstances it simply MUST exercise long-arm jurisdiction. But it also laid out requirements. Foreign legal advice can make all the difference now.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA opens door to PIs over unregistered amended claims; other appellate and first-instance decisions
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court during the calendar week of March 23, 2026. For a preview, ip fray will report on the CoA’s long-arm hearing on Monday (March 30).
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New UPC appellate decision teaches two long-arm lessons: when waiver occurs and when affiliate entities are not anchor defendants
A juice extractor case has given rise to interesting clarifications. The UPC does not aspire to be a “world court” for patents, but to faithfully apply EU law.
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BREAKING: Transsion escalates Ericsson patent litigation in UPC, files its first-ever public patent infringement complaint
Transsion has sued Ericsson in the Unified Patent Court’s Lisbon Local Division over the infringement of one of its patents, marking its first-ever publicly-known patent infringement complaint.
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UPC Mannheim LD agrees with UK judge on Amazon’s declaration being “nonsense” but refrains from imposing sanctions at this point: comity
Amazon is not being fined for now. But it is not off the hook. Today’s order involves a clear contempt-of-court holding.
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Open letter by leading UPC firm reflects intense debate over how to achieve more balanced distribution of cases across first-instance venues
ip fray supports (and has indeed promoted on several occasions) the idea of a more balanced docket distribution across the UPC’s first-instance divisions. The only quesation is how to get there without weakening the UPC on the bottom line.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): lessons from CoA on how NOT to lose trade secret status and how NOT to seek discretionary review; new injunctions; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the calendar week of March 16, 2026. The UPC rarely puts out new decisions on Mondays before the afternoon, so we now sometimes publish our weekly roundups on Monday around noon instead of during the weekend. Major UPC news will…
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AI opportunities, UK interim license frustration and global SEP injunction divergence: highlights from Via’s Business Summit in Rome
ip fray breaks down some of the highlights of Via Licensing Alliance’s third-ever Business Summit in Rome this week, where it took part as official media partner and one of the panel moderators.
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UPC CoA ruling leaves glass half-empty (at best) for FRAND determination claims as its theory amounts merely to ancillary jurisdiction
In some cases, rate-setting might be performed. Two UPC LDs would be happy to do so. But a new appellate ruling makes it doubtful whether patentees — and rather unlikely that implementers — will really want to prioritize the UPC in their FRAND strategies.