Category: Unified Patent Court
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Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZN
Preliminary injunctions, a fine for bad-faith litigation, multiple new video patent lawsuits in the Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court: the heat is on.
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UPC revokes patents and throws out infringement actions in GXD v. Myriad, Centripetal v. Palo Alto
In two separate decisions issued today, the Unified Patent Court’s Munich LD and Mannheim LD have respectively revoked a patent asserted by South Korean non-practising entity, GXD-Bio, against rival Myriad, and by network security firm Centripetal against Palo Alto Networks.
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Atlas Global suffers another blow to global WiFi 6 SEP enforcement campaign as EPO revokes key patent
The European Patent Office has revoked the last of the WiFi standard-essential patents that Atlas Global asserted against TP-Link in Germany and the Unified Patent Court.
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OPPO fires back at ASUS in China: files first-known VVC SEP suit
OPPO has sued ASUS over the alleged infringement of several of its Versatile Video Coding-related SEPs in the Shanghai IP Court, after the defendant brought its own wireless patent infringement claims in the Munich I Regional Court and UPC.
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Solar panel patent wars continue to heat up in Germany, while CAT faces patent infringement suits in UPC, ITC, Eastern District of Texas
Solar panel manufacturer Maxeon has filed its third patent infringement lawsuit against Aiko Solar over solar technology patents in the Munich I Regional Court, while Caterpillar (CAT) has also been hit with a third suit over the alleged infringement of one of rival Doosan Bobcat’s hydraulic patents (following two in the U.S.).
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UPC Roundup (1 week): clarification of standards for damages, claim construction, recall
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our December 7, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC’s Dusseldorf LD denies recall over indirect infringement; clarifies damages period, interim damages, non-inventiveness pleading standard
Not only substantial non-infringing use in the territory covered by the patent-in-suit but also the possibility of exports to other countries weighs against a recall.
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Double jeopardy takes down Sanofi’s cabazitaxel use patent as UPC’s Munich LD revokes after EPO BoA affirmance
Lawyers representing generics makers welcomed the UPC’s decision to revoke the patent regardless of a prior EPO decision to the contrary.
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Swiss patent court offers expedited nullity proceedings for use in foreign jurisdictions, including UPC
The Federal Patent Court in Switzerland has announced that nullity declaration actions brought against patents that form the basis of infringement suits will be expedited.
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Sun Patent Trust’s UPC action may dissuade automaker Geely from peacemeal resolution; Bardehle becomes first law firm to be on both sides of Avanci
It is unclear why Geely is betting on licensing strategies that Volkswagen and Mercedes previously abandoned.