Category: UPC Roundups
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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…
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UPC Roundup (2 weeks): more injunctions, more opportunities after opt-out withdrawal, and a case that lasted only one day
This is an update on what has happened in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the fortnight since the last such roundup (November 2, 2024 ip fray article). It is fair to say that the number of newsworthy events during the first half of November was relatively low, but the significance of some of them…
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UPC Roundup (1 week): new injunctions, new cases, settlements, first FRAND decision on horizon, guidance on corporate officer defendants
This is a roundup of what happened in the Unified Patent Court during the last week of October 2024.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): U.S. pleadings disregarded, but U.S. stipulation impacts confidentiality regime; wide variety of other news
Roundup of Unified Patent Court decisions, filings and other noteworthy developments over the course of the last week.
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UPC Roundup (2 weeks): wide range of decisions from default judgment to U.S. patent attorneys’ access to sealed documents
This roundup covers two weeks of Unified Patent Court (UPC) decisions.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): one intervention allowed, another denied; more security decisions; several new cases
The previous UPC Roundup was published one week ago (September 27, 2024 ip fray article). This one goes live around noon on Friday, October 4, 2024, so there could still be developments in and around the UPC later that day. It’s a summary of ip fray‘s LinkedIn posts reporting and commenting on UPC news over…
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UPC Roundup: first PI affirmance, another SEP settlement, FRAND procedures, joinders, amendments, and more
Context: Since the previous overall (i.e., covering appeals as well as first-instance proceedings) UPC roundup of two weeks ago (September 14, 2024 ip fray article). a special roundup covered several appellate decisions (September 25, 2024 ip fray article). This article discusses one appellate ruling (the first affirmance of a preliminary injunction (PI)) that has come…
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UPC Court of Appeal roundup: FRAND disclosures, language of proceedings, parallel national validity proceedings, early-stage objections
Context: This is a roundup of decisions handed down by the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Court of Appeal (CoA), and reported by ip fray on LinkedIn, since the prior UPC roundup (September 14, 2024 ip fray article). Note that during that period, ip fray discussed one CoA decision, which dealt with security, in a separate…
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UPC roundup: timeliness of adding defendant or request for order to produce; jurisdictional questions; no replacement of TQJ
A summary of various Unified Patent Court orders and decisions from the past three weeks.