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The EPO has recently announced it will ‘accelerate its processing of parallel opposition proceedings if it is informed by the Unified Patent Court or a national court or competent authority of a…

The Unified Patent Court has announced that a new functionality is available on the CMS to download multiple documents at once from a given case.  ‘Provided the need to access multiple documents from…

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Mathys & Squire has brought a test case to try to improve the transparency of the operations of the Unified Patent Court. The law firm announced this on its website. Kluwer IP Law spoke to Nicholas…

The Unified Patent Court has introduced a ‘My Legal Team’ functionality in the case management system. The functionality ‘allows for representatives and other users such as legal assistants, to gain…

The declining search and examination quality of EPO patents is not only harmful because inventions are not protected but they also create a lot of uncertainty for the industry. The problem has…

The political environment at the EPO remains bumpy. Though some progress is made in relatively minor adjustments of the working conditions, the SUEPO trade union and staff committees remain largely…

Nokia has started legal actions against Amazon in the US, Germany, India, the UK and at the Unified Patent Court for the unauthorized use of Nokia’s video-related technologies in streaming services…

The president of the UPC local division The Hague has allowed to change the language of the proceedings from Dutch to English in an infringement action of Plant-e Knowledge and Plant-e against Arkyne…