20 Jan, 2025 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...
17 Jan, 2025 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...
10 Jan, 2025 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...
07 Jan, 2025 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...
23 Dec, 2024 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...
17 Dec, 2024 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...
16 Dec, 2024 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...
10 Dec, 2024 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...
09 Dec, 2024 UPC: EPO decision not to delay registration of Unitary Effect reversed - but refund of Court fees denied By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In June 2024, the EPO notified patent applicants that, in light of Romania’s ratification of the UPCA, it will, upon request, allow...
04 Oct, 2024 Gene Editing and EU Regulations – a patent attorney’s perspective By M&C Newsroom Gene editing in agriculture has made leaps over the past decade, from CRISPR breakthroughs to trials with GABA-enriched tomatoes and...
24 Sep, 2024 UPC Confirms Determination of Closest Prior Art to be Unnecessary By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In light of the UPC’s stated aim of concluding first instance proceedings within a year of their initiation, it comes as no surprise that...
30 Aug, 2024 Romania joins the UPC on 1 September 2024 By Thomas Prock As previously reported, Romania will join the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on 1 September 2024. As a consequence, the jurisdiction of the...