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.
The lesson of this year's BIO International Convention in San Diego is not that the market has finally discovered the Unified Patent Court; it has been aware of it for some time. It is that life…
At the UPC, quantum is starting to do more than compensate. A public, reasoned figure can become a reference point for licensing, valuation and settlement. The early case law also marks the limit of…
As discussed in my previous post on this Blog, the UPC’s current approach of granting pan-UPC relief across all the Contracting Member States (CMS), based merely on a formal reliance on Article 34…
Arbitration as a Distinct Procedural ProductArbitration is more ambitious than mediation, and that ambition has a price. It promises a private, specialized, and enforceable decision rendered by…
The most uncomfortable thing one can say about the Unified Patent Court is not that it is becoming too German. It is that it may never have been built, and is still not quite treated, as a European…
A court of appeal is not a scoreboard, and it is worth saying so plainly at this stage of the debate on the Unified Patent Court. The discussion about how cases are distributed across the UPC’s…
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…
"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…
Applications in the UPC for Requests to Produce Evidence under r.190 RoP are rare beasts. An Order following one such application was made on 14 April 2026 by the Brussels LD (full panel) in the case…
