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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…

The first question before a European launch is not whether the product infringes. It is where, against whom, on what record and on what timetable that question will be tested. Market-entry opinions…

The least reliable line in a European patent portfolio review is the one that looks most reliable. Opted out: yes. The field is binary, the source is public, and the answer takes four seconds to…