19 Dec, 2024 UPC: No requirement to disclose commercial information in request to amend claim By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Abigail Spreadbury In accordance with front-loaded UPC procedure, any request to amend a party’s case must be made as soon as it is reasonably possible to...
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...
16 Aug, 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’...
28 May, 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...
13 May, 2024 UPC considers jurisdictional requirements to sue multiple defendants in one Court By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Abigail Spreadbury Daniel McGrath +1 more... Show less On 11 April 2024, the Paris Local Division handed down an interesting jurisdictional decision in case UPC_CFI_495/2023 between claimant...
07 May, 2024 Dusseldorf Local Division of the UPC confirms that there is no prosecution history estoppel in UPC proceedings By Thomas Prock Abigail Spreadbury Mike Gilbert The Düsseldorf (DE) Local Division confirmed that there is no prosecution history estoppel in proceedings in front of the UPC. This...
18 Mar, 2024 Unlocking UPC secrets: No standardisation of penalties for confidentiality breaches across local divisions By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Abigail Spreadbury On 30 January 2023, the Paris Local Division decided that it is not necessary to harmonise penalties for breach of confidentiality...
07 Mar, 2024 UPC CoA: No stay of UPC court proceedings during Chapter 11 proceedings By Abigail Spreadbury Mike Gilbert Thomas Prock In an order dated 26 February 2024, the UPC Court of Appeal in Luxembourg decided that issuance of a decision in appeal proceedings...