Unified Patent Court (UPC)

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has transformed European patent litigation, creating a central forum for patent enforcement and validity challenges across participating EU Member States. As UPC case law continues to develop, businesses and practitioners closely monitor decisions that shape litigation strategy, procedural practice, and the interpretation of substantive patent law.

This category tracks key UPC developments, including infringement actions, revocation proceedings, preliminary injunctions, procedural rulings, and judgments from both the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal. Our contributors analyse significant decisions and emerging trends, highlighting their practical implications for patent owners, challengers, in-house counsel, and litigation teams.

For professionals involved in European patent disputes, portfolio management, or freedom-to-operate assessments, this section provides timely commentary and expert analysis of the latest UPC decisions and the evolving body of UPC case law.

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Miquel Montañá (Clifford Chance)

UPC: four reasons on why the PPA is not legally in force

April 21, 2022

Having been teaching Public International Law since 1990 and being a tenured professor of this field of law, this author has some difficulty in understanding the state of collective nirvana that the…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Interviews with candidate judges for the Unified Patent Court have started

April 6, 2022

Another constitutional complaint against the Unified Patent Court Agreement? Is Italy withdrawing from the UPC? If even April fools’ day doesn’t go by without a proportion of jokes on the Unitary…

Matthieu Dhenne (Dhenne Avocats)

Is UPC Victim of a Latent Vice?

March 23, 2022

Since 19 January 2022, the provisional application protocol (“PAP”) of the UPCA has officially entered into force. However, as previously reported, this entry into force of UPC faces a number of…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Administrative Committee Unified Patent Court inaugurated

February 23, 2022

The Administrative Committee of the Unified Patent Court has been inaugurated. It will replace the UPC Preparatory Committee, which has so far been in charge of preparations for the new court. An…

Matthieu Dhenne (Dhenne Avocats)

Implementation of UPC: So What

January 27, 2022

A French government press release dated January 20, 2022, announces the creation of a harmonized intellectual property framework with the entry into force of the Unified Patent Court following the…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Interviews for future judges Unified Patent Court will take place this spring

January 21, 2022

The recruitment of judges for the Unified Patent Court will start soon, now that the Preparatory Phase preceding the opening of the Unified Patent Court has officially begun. According to the UPC…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Top ten of most popular articles of 2021

January 12, 2022

What were the most popular articles of the Kluwer Patent Blog in 2021? Some topics keep on returning, but new issues found their way into the chart of best read posts on this blog as well. The number…

Matthieu Dhenne (Dhenne Avocats)

UPC: The John Doe of Patent Law

December 16, 2021

The Unified Patent Jurisdiction is coming! It is announced that the system will be operational by 2022. Great! But no information on its implementation, European governments seem to be barely aware…

Kluwer Patent blogger

‘Unitary Patent system is an arbitrary and ailing hybrid monster mix’

December 9, 2021

Due to recent developments in Germany, Slovenia and Austria, where parliaments gave their support to the Protocol for Provisional Application of the Unified Patent Court Agreement, it is likely that…

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