In episode 7 of season 4 of “Silicon Valley”, very aptly named “The Patent Troll”, the start-up Pied Piper, which is built on a bold and disruptive vision, suddenly finds itself under threat. A man…
Following previous explorations of the UPC's architecture (Legal Inception), the interpretive tensions inherited from national traditions (Legal Westworld), and the volatility of procedural standards…
In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a now-famous thought experiment: a cat, sealed inside a box with a quantum trigger, remains both alive and dead until an observer opens the box to…
A New Kind of Justice?In the often adversarial landscape of European patent litigation, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has introduced a lesser-known, but potentially transformative institution: the…
In 1976, Tom Scholz—a MIT-trained engineer and sonic perfectionist—spent months layering guitar tracks in the basement of his Boston apartment to produce More Than a Feeling, a song whose depth came…
This article follows the jurisdictional analysis initiated in Legal Inception: Harmonizing the UPC and National Courts through EU Law. That piece focused on procedural structure. This one turns to…
Diving into the labyrinth of intertwined dreams in Christopher Nolan’s Inception—where each dream level operates under its own rules while influencing the others—sharply illuminates the intricate…
As James Bond’s 1989 adventure Licence to Kill, in which a special permit confers extraordinary authority upon its bearer, Brexit has furnished British patentees with a renewed licence to navigate…
Like Corto Maltese charting forgotten seas, the UK now sails through uncertain waters in the shifting landscape of European patent litigation. Brexit did not bring about a complete rupture but rather…
