UPC’s Paris LD takes very expansive view on access to provisional measures, but rejects ‘reservoir’ approach to original patent specification

Court and counsel

Presiding Judge (and here, judge-rapporteur) Camille Lignières, Judge Carine Gillet, Judge Prof. Maximilian Haedicke, and Technically Qualified Judge Cornelis Schüller (who used to run Nestlé’s patent department).

Counsel for patentee Guardant Health: Carpmaels & Ransford’s Agathe Michel-de Cazotte, Cameron Marshall, Annabel Strawson, and Caroline Horstmann.

Counsel for successful defendant Sophia Genetics: a team from Bristows (an ip fray firm profile is in the making and we will add this result to our UPC achievement list) consisting of Liz Cohen, Prof. Naoise Gaffney, Rachael Cartwright, Eden Winlow, and Florence Plisner.