Unified Patent Court (UPC)

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…

BackgroundWe previously set out the background and genesis of the proposed regulatory provisions of the "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Code…

As we celebrate another year of the Unified Patent Court in action and head into the festive season, we invite our readers to put their UPC knowledge to the test in the Kluwer UPC Christmas Quiz 2025…

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…

EPO practice on added matter is well known to be strict, with many patents being revoked using this principle every year. Particularly tricky during EPO opposition proceedings is the “inescapable…

Two years after its launch, the Unified Patent Court has moved from promise to practice. What once looked like a procedural experiment has become a credible, fast, and intellectually rigorous forum…

For months, commentary on Boehringer has flourished across the European patent community. Yet amid the noise, the fundamental question—what the decision truly changes in the logic of injunctions…

After two years, the UPC's track record concerning its decisions has been rather good so far. Although, of course, in each specific case one of the parties will disagree with the decision, the…

In late September, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Germany’s Munich Regional Court issued the world’s first “anti-interim license” injunction orders (AILIs). These…