2/11/2025 8:01:35 AM UPC: The advent of file wrapper estoppel? By Thomas Prock In two recent decisions before the UPC (UPC_CoA_402/2024, UPC_CoA_405/2024), the Court of Appeal rejected an appeal by Alexion...
2/6/2025 2:39:42 PM UPC Outlines Criteria for Assessing FRAND Defence By Thomas Prock On 18 December 2024, the Munich Local Division handed down their decision on the merits in UPC_CFI_9/2023, the dispute concerning alleged...
1/28/2025 3:41:13 PM UPC agrees to delay Interim Conference - by a few hours By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert On 25 November 2024, the Milan Local Division issued a routine pre-interim conference procedural order in dispute UPC_CFI_240/2023...
1/21/2025 1:06:58 PM UPC Court of Appeal Clarifies Security for Costs Rules By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In the dispute between Aarke AB, a Swedish small business, and SodaStream Industries Ltd., an Israeli company owned by PepsiCo, the UPC...
1/20/2025 2:38:32 PM UPC grants first anti-anti-suit injunction By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert The Munich Local Division with presiding judge Zigann as the single judge has granted the UPC’s first ever anti-anti-suit injunction to...
1/17/2025 1:59:56 PM UPC: First decision on equivalent infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Plant-e Knowledge v Arkyne Technologies UPC_CFI_239/2023 In a first for the UPC, the Hague Local Division of the Court of First Instance...
1/10/2025 8:49:34 AM UPC Preliminary Injunctions: Presumption of ownership principle confirmed By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell On 31 October, the Dusseldorf Local Division issued its decisions on the matter of preliminary injunctions requested by Valeo...
1/7/2025 1:26:43 PM UPC Preliminary injunctions: Sales support can constitute infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell On 31 October, the Düsseldorf Local Division issued its decisions on the matter of preliminary injunctions requested by Valeo...
12/23/2024 2:17:43 PM UPC revokes Juul Labs’ patent over added matter while addressing auxiliary requests By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In a recent decision concerning the revocation of a European patent owned by Juul Labs International, Inc., the Paris Central Division of...
12/17/2024 10:59:07 AM UPC Inventive Step Assessment Begins to Crystallise with Beginning of Issuance of Decisions By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert With the frequency of issuance of UPC decisions on the merits beginning to increase, the long-sought answer to the question of how the...
12/16/2024 10:29:28 AM UPC sets out burden of proof requirements for Permanent Injunctions By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell On 4 November, the Milan Local Division of the UPC handed down their final decision in the Oerlikon v Bhagat infringement action. This...
12/10/2024 9:25:46 AM Flexibility at the UPC enables hard copy intervention filing By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert The UPC has continued to show flexibility with its approach to the CMS, with a Panel exercising its discretion to allow the filing of a...