Aug 30, 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...
Aug 27, 2024 UPC: New Restrictions Placed on Service under Rule 271? By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell In resolving a long-fought issue about service on companies belonging to the same group of companies in which some companies are within...
Aug 16, 2024 UPC follows EPO’s ‘rebuttable presumption’ of priority right By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Abigail Spreadbury In 2023, the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal issued the G1/22 and G2/22 decisions which decided that there is a ‘rebuttable presumption’...
Jul 29, 2024 UPC clarifies stance on service inside and outside the EU By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Ali Raja In a recent infringement action between M-A-S Maschinen und Anlagenbau Schulz GmbH (Plaitiff) and Altech Makina Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim...
Jul 24, 2024 M&C in the news: Nokia v. Mala Technologies: the UPC interprets its relationship with national courts By M&C Newsroom On 2 May 2024, the Paris Central Division of the UPC issued a decision concerning the jurisdiction and the applicability of the Brussels...
Jul 19, 2024 UPC to collaborate with the EPO on developments of Case Management System By Thomas Prock The UPC has announced, today, that they will cooperate with the EPO on IT related matters. The first project will be the development of a...
Jul 19, 2024 UPC: Promising case management actions from the Mannheim Local Division? By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell Two recent orders (UPC_CFI_210/2023 of 27 June and UPC_CFI_219/2023 of 4 July) by the Mannheim Local Division have seen Chairman...
Jul 04, 2024 UPC and FRAND: Please order me to disclose! By Thomas Prock Tom Taylor Jen Cardwell Dafydd Bevan +1 more... Show less The judgment relates to an application for an order against the applicant itself requiring it to produce licence agreements. The wider...
Jun 11, 2024 EPO to accept delays in requests for Unitary Patent registration to cover Romania By Thomas Prock As previously reported, Romania has deposited its instrument of ratification of the UPC Agreement and will become a UPC member state on 1...
Jun 10, 2024 UPC confirms rules on proprietors opting out of the UPC’s jurisdiction By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In their dispute with Neo Wireless, Toyota challenged the validity of the opt-out of Neo Wireless’ European patent. Before the...
May 30, 2024 UPC v EPO: Divergence in claim amendment practice By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Jen Cardwell On April 30, the Paris Central Division of the UPC issued a decision concerning the admissibility of amendments to the patent in suit in...
May 28, 2024 UPC Court of Appeal defines timeline and justification for changing the language of proceedings By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Abigail Spreadbury On 17 April 2024, the UPC Court of Appeal (CoA) issued an order changing the language of proceedings from German to English in the...