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BackgroundSPCs are granted for “products”. Products are defined as active ingredients or combinations of active ingredients (Art. 1(b) SPC Regulation). But what constitutes an active ingredient? The…

The disclosure decision comes firstA comparable licence is never only evidence of a rate. Before the Unified Patent Court, pleading one may open it to an employee of the opponent, keep that employee…

A compass worth havingThe 7th Civil Chamber of the Landgericht München I has done something no European court had done before. On 13 August 2026 it published guidelines, sixty-seven pages long,…

Under Rule 106 EPC, a petition for review by the Enlarged Board (Art. 112a EPC) based on a procedural defect is generally admissible only if the defect was objected to during the appeal proceedings,…

The European Innovation Act, proposed on 9 September 2026, has understandably attracted attention chiefly as a procurement measure, although Chapter 3 creates a separate architecture for IP-backed…

Winning the jurisdiction argument in a long-arm case is not the same as having a claim. On 2 June 2026 the UPC Court of Appeal confirmed that the Mannheim Local Division had been right to hear…