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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — often attributed to Napoleon, and now, perhaps, to anyone still asking for a stay without a strategy.For years, European patent litigation…

I have long intended to write a piece about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but this seems to be one of these subjects where the world turns faster than my ability to process it. Nonetheless, here we…

As far as the authors are aware, there is, as yet, no dedicated blog to plant varieties.  Therefore the following post has been prepared for the Kluwer Patents Blog in the expectation that some of…

A ball may reach the line and still not cross it. Jurisdiction obeys the same logic.The order delivered on 13 March 2026 by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court in Adobe Inc, OpenAI LP &…

“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements.” — Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950The Unified Patent Court was not created to…

Lesson 4: The UPC will not apply the Problem-Solution-Approach as developed by the EPOThis is now abundantly clear. In November 2025, the first and the second panel of the CoA have agreed on a common…