New insights on added subject-matter and interpretation of functi...
A recent order of the UPC Court of Appeal provides an updated view on the approach that the UPC could […]
The UPC has issued the first decision on infringement by equivale...
The Court of First Instance of the Hague Local Division has adopted a four-step test and found infringement by equivalen...
The Unified Patent Court and the FRAND Dance
A New Era for SEP Litigation in Europe? The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has made a notable debut, with a […]
An important first instance decision by the Paris Central Divisio...
Following the UPC_CoA_335/2023 order (see our previous article [link]), the Paris Central Division has ruled on an inval...
Opting out of the UPC: the perspective of Italian patent propriet...
Following the recent opening of the Milan section of the central division of the UPC, we wondered about the approach [&h...
The family expands: Romania is the 18th state to ratify the UPC a...
The UPC came into existence and started its operations when the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (also known as [&hel...
A new order of the UPC Paris Central Division in favour of public...
Following the 10 April 2024 decision of the UPC Court of Appeal (read here), a further order of the Paris […]
Milan is about to become central in the UPC
The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (also known as UPC Agreement or UPCA) was signed in 2013, when the […]
Stay of the proceedings before the UPC in view of parallel EPO pr...
According to Art. 33 (10) UPCA and the relative implementing Rule 295(a), the UPC has discretion to stay proceedings pen...
Changing the language of UPC proceedings on request of a party: r...
The wide variety of languages that may be used in proceedings before the UPC, and specifically the tug-of-war between En...
Public access to written pleadings and evidence
Following the hearing of 12 March 2024 in Luxembourg (see here), the UPC Court of Appeal set the reasons to […]
10 Months of UPC
After several years in the making, the UPC was launched on 1 June 2023. Ten months later, more than 300 […]
Language of UPC proceedings: will english prevail over german?
The UPC offers a uniform framework for patent litigation at a European level, but not (yet?) a uniform language of [&hel...
UP&UPC: off we go!
At last, the new patent system based on the European Patent with Unitary Effect (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (U...
UPC System on the starting blocks
On 17 February 2023, Germany ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement. This officially triggers the start of the UPC ...
Updates on UP & UPC, the launch planned for April 1
According to the latest available information, the European patent with unitary effect (hereinafter referred to as ‘th...
The OPT-OUT in light of the latest amendments to the rules of pro...
The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) is expected to enter into force in the spring of 2023 and […]
Introduction to the unitary patent and the unified patent court
The legislation on the Unitary Patent (UP) and the new Unified Patent Court (UPC), scheduled to enter into force at [&he...
