Like Prudence the heroine of Amours à l'Italienne (Rome Adventure in English), UPC local division of Mannheim gives us a lesson of polyamory with the first UPC FRAND decision (November, 22, 2024,…
Forget about Gangnam Style, it is overrated. Aya Nakamura Djadja is more than ever the dance-floor song of the moment (especially since her performance at the 2024 Olympics Game opening ceremony). Is…
The king is dead! Long live the king! An expression traditionally uttered at the death of a monarch to acclaim a new king on the death of his predecessor. Could it be applied to our traditional…
In an important decision rendered on 24 April 2024, the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de cassation (i.e., French Supreme Court) ruled that the assignment of a patent is not enforceable against third…
Is Germany no longer the Eldorado for preliminary injunctions (“PI”) applicants? Whatever the answer to this question, the UPC local division of the most famous German patent forum (i.e., Düsseldorf)…
While the patentability of further medical use claim defined by a dosage regimen used to be ruled out, the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal has accepted them since decision G 2/08 in 2010. This…
Reading the title of this paper, perhaps you will smile, thinking about all the discussions that this issue has already ignited, even before the UPC came into force. Since the beginning, most…
The question of the role that UPC is likely to play in relation to SEPs (and therefore FRAND licenses) is one that I've heard most often since the new jurisdiction was born, certainly because the…
This week we reported on the case between Huawei and Netgear, in which the defendant had obtained a production order for a comparable license granted by Huawei to Qualcomm, the production of which…
