18 Oct, 2024 UPC Court of Appeal limits disclosure and leaves door open for future expert testimony By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Krishna Darshan Raghavan In a decision issued on 24 September 2024 by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the court upheld a decision that...
17 Oct, 2024 Claimant’s patent portfolio not sufficient to provide security of costs By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan In a series of Orders dated 17 September 2024 issued by the Court of Appeal (UPC_CoA_217/2024, UPC_CoA_218/2024), the panel of judges...
16 Oct, 2024 Summary of Confidentiality Orders granted by the UPC By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan One of the objectives of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is to ensure that proceedings are dealt with in a fair and equitable manner and...
03 Oct, 2024 UPC denies request to extend action to an additional party By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In a procedural order issued on 2 September 2024, the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) rejected Panasonic Holdings...
01 Oct, 2024 UPC: Software Development Kit and Indirect Infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Background Hand Held Products, Inc. (part of the Honeywell group) filed an application for a preliminary injunction against Scandit AG,...
30 Sep, 2024 First instance of a witness being invited to testify in UPC oral proceedings By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In an order dated 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris (FR) Local Division of the UPC allowed a request by the claimant for a...
27 Sep, 2024 UPC rejects challenge on jurisdiction over internet related infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan In an order dated 3 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_188/2024) the UPC Court of Appeal held that the UPC has international jurisdiction in respect...
26 Sep, 2024 Alternative means of service can only work following an earlier attempt of service By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In an order dated 29 July 2024 (UPC_CoA_69/2024 and UPC_CoA_70/2024), the UPC Court of Appeal has confirmed that an attempt to serve a...
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...
23 Sep, 2024 UPC Confirms Electronic Service can only be Effected via the Registry By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In the ongoing appeal lodged by Alexion against the CFI’s refusal of provisional measures against a large group of Amgen defendants, the...
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...
27 Aug, 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...