This week, I have the pleasure of speaking in Amsterdam at C5’s 19th Annual Forum on Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation in Europe, in a panel devoted to running and defending preliminary injunctions…
"The readiness is all." - HamletSometimes a judgment does not change the melody of FRAND law. It changes the instrument through which that melody may be played. Not every player reads the same score,…
"Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind." — Immanuel Kant (Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.) Recent reactions to my earlier…
“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…
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…
For the past year, European patent lawyers have been discussing the “long arm” of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as if jurisdiction were simply a question of geographical reach. In cross-border…
There are moments in the academic calendar when reading becomes something other than triage. The end of year 2025—when the inbox slows, deadlines loosen, and the professional reflex to read “for…
This second contribution completes the analysis developed in Part 1. Building on the product-centred reasoning adopted by the District Court of The Hague, it examines the limits of that approach in…
