Category: UPC Roundups
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UPC Roundup (1 week): added-matter invalidation; consolidation request scrutinized; landmark anti-interim-license injunctions
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 28, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): another trade fair inspection order; two UPC confidentiality decisions and one in India with reference to UPC
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 21, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): unitary effect denial upheld; evidence-gathering at IFA; 473-page PI pleading held excessive
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 14, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): PI granted despite debatable urgency, direct infringement clarified, protection of attorney–client privilege, new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our September 6, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): 11 interesting procedural decisions, settlements, and non-default judgment after party waives right of defense
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 31, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): five-month delay defeats application for provisional measures; clarifications on scope of rejoinder, authorization of counsel; and more
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 24, 2025 UPC Roundup.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): five CoA decisions, several key first-instance rulings (Spain, purpose statements, exhaustion etc.), new infringement cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 17, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. CoA 1.1 CoA: warnings against continued default must be requested during default proceedings, not as post-decision correction (Microsoft v. Suinno) In a recent order (PDF), the Court of Appeal (CoA) clarified…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA clarifies two key prerequisites to suspension of enforcement; deposit may be used to offset costs; new cases
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 10, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. CoA 1.1 CoA overturns denial of PI based on different take on imminent infringement (Boehringer Ingelheim v. Zentiva) (link to detailed article) The CoA has overturned a Lisbon LD decision that…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): stay pending appeal granted over defendant’s objection; various cost-related decisions and one about unitary effect
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our August 3, 2025 UPC Roundup. 1. Dusseldorf LD 1.1 Injunction by default judgment (igus v. Whale Technology) (link to LinkedIn post) The Dusseldorf Local Division (LD) has issued a default judgement against Whale Technology (PDF in German),…
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UPC Roundup: timeliness of sealing requests; non-novelty and non-inventiveness over same art; Samsung defends twice; new cases (also OpenAI)
This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our July 26, 2025, UPC Roundup. 1. CoA: trade secrets must be timely protected (Strabag v. Swarco Futurit) In a decision dated August 1, 2025 (PDF), the Court of Appeal (CoA) rejected the applications submitted by Strabag and…