Category: UPC Roundups
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UPC Roundup (1 week): different questions of jurisdiction and representation addressed, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our February 8, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. Jurisdiction 1.1 Long-arm jurisdiction over Spanish part of European patent: Helsinki LD (link to LinkedIn post) This is yet another case in which the UPC’s jurisdiction over the infringement of…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): no second revocation counterclaim by same party against same patent; generally uneventful period
This is a short weekly roundup, summarizing developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since our February 1, 2025 UPC Roundup. It may have been the least eventful week at the UPC since we started our roundups, apart from the period around New Year’s Day. 1. No second bite at the apple: Munich…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): bad week for plaintiffs, including EPO revoking patent-in-suit in accelerated proceedings
This is another relatively short roundup, summarizing developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since our January 26, 2025 UPC Roundup. It covers the worst week for UPC plaintiffs in a long time, with no win but multiple losses, though one of those losses involved a holding on long-arm jurisdiction that many practitioners…
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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 Roundup (1 week): first Nordic-Baltic RD trial, €46K contempt fine, major FRAND injunction, PI over patent approaching expiration, and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) that have happened or become known since the previous UPC Roundup (December 15, 2024 ip fray article). Most roundups sum up what was previously reported (at least on our LinkedIn page), but this present one contains a few items on top….
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UPC Roundup (1 week): Munich LD allows subsequent assertion of another claim set; 9 seconds to revocation; CoA on injunction enforcement; and other developments
This is a summary of developments in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since the previous roundup (December 7, 2024 ip fray article). There have been some interesting decisions lately, with quite a bit more to come before the holidays. 1. Assertion of additional category of patent claims during course of proceedings does not constitute an…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): preliminary injunction news, first antisuit attack, slew of new cases discovered
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) since the previous weekly roundup (November 30, 2024 ip fray article). 1. UPC faces its first-ever antisuit injunction attack: Netgear motion in the Central District of California (link to detailed article) After deciding a standard-essential patent (SEP) case where no FRAND…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): appealability of single-judge orders, requests for judicial notice and other procedural questions
This week (since the previous roundup) has not been particularly eventful in the Unified Patent Court (UPC), but some decisions are worth reading and some developments worth watching. 1. Can a procedural order (here, security-related) be entirely unappealable? (link to LinkedIn post) The UPC’s Court of Appeal (CoA) has previously told appellants that certain orders…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): FRAND, equivalence and various other questions addressed
This is a summary of developments in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in a rather eventful week since the last UPC Roundup (November 16, 2024 ip fray article). A couple of smaller items included herein were not previously discussed in an ip fray article or LinkedIn post. 1. Key appellate clarifications 1.1 New arguments on…