Before the Unified Patent Court, a launch communication leads a double life. It can show that infringement is imminent. It can also fix the moment when the right holder knew enough to ask for…
The first strategic choice in a patent dispute is not where to sue. It is where to secure the evidence that will make the claim pleadable, quantifiable and commercially credible. A case may…
My forthcoming book, A Contractual Theory of FRAND: From Private Normativity to Legal Obligation in Technical Standardization, starts from a question that remains insufficiently examined in standard…
On 22 June 2026, the Court of Appeal of the UPC handed down two closely connected orders in the dispute between Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage and the Bosch group. Read together, they do something more…
The lesson of this year's BIO International Convention in San Diego is not that the market has finally discovered the Unified Patent Court; it has been aware of it for some time. It is that life…
At the UPC, quantum is starting to do more than compensate. A public, reasoned figure can become a reference point for licensing, valuation and settlement. The early case law also marks the limit of…
Arbitration as a Distinct Procedural ProductArbitration is more ambitious than mediation, and that ambition has a price. It promises a private, specialized, and enforceable decision rendered by…
The most uncomfortable thing one can say about the Unified Patent Court is not that it is becoming too German. It is that it may never have been built, and is still not quite treated, as a European…
A court of appeal is not a scoreboard, and it is worth saying so plainly at this stage of the debate on the Unified Patent Court. The discussion about how cases are distributed across the UPC’s…
