Category: UPC Roundups

This is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our February 22, 2025 UPC Roundup. An uneventful week at the UPC itself, with far more excitement sparked by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision that enables the UPC to order remedies in European Patent Convention (EPC)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…