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…
I am particularly pleased to publish this commentary, co-authored with my friend and colleague Marco Stief, whose earlier work on this decision provided the starting point for the present analysis,…
Today, I would like to offer a review of Léon Dijkman’s The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law and the UPC, a timely and ambitious contribution to the fast-evolving law of patent remedies in…
An offer you can refuse?The recent judgment in Teva/Cephalon firmly anchors EU jurisprudence on pay-for-delay agreements. By upholding the sanctions imposed on the two companies for a series of side…
The UPC Paris Local Division has just released its much-anticipated decision in Merz v. Viatris, which at first glance looks like a familiar pharmaceutical case. A generic product moves through the…
