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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Kluwer Patent blogger

Philips sees no reason to opt-out patents from the Unified Patent Court

January 20, 2015

The Dutch company Philips is among the top-10 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applicants and the top-3 European Patent Convention (EPC) applicants. Owning about 64,000 patents and filing…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Translating the Unitary Patent II: High Quality is Far From Perfect

December 24, 2014

Last week, we reported on the challenging endeavour to set up Patent Translate, the machine translation system which is under joint development by the European Patent Organisation (EPO) and Google…

Kluwer Patent blogger

German ‘yes’ will most likely bring to life the Unified Patent Court

December 19, 2014

The German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement will most likely be decisive for the moment when the Unified Patent Court comes into existence. In an interview on recent developments…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Translating the Unitary Patent I: ‘Laminated Jealous Glass’

December 18, 2014

For Europeans who don’t speak English, German or French, the three official Unitary Patent (UP) languages, the future UP system will bring about an even more radical change than for those that do…

Miquel Montañá (Clifford Chance)

UPC: Advocate General Bot, Philippe Cochet; the good, the bad and the ugly

December 11, 2014

As the readers will know, on 18 November 2014, Advocate General Yves Bot published his conclusions in cases C-146/13 and C-147/13, whereby he has proposed that the Court of Justice of the European…

Rik Lambers (Brinkhof)

Kluwer Patent Blog Poll: The Results

December 11, 2014

Literature and litigation go hand in hand. My fellow contributors aptly illustrated this, their recent posts moving to the cadence of the language of Shakespeare and Montesquieu. To follow their…

Kluwer Patent blogger

Discussion on Unitary Patent renewal fees is speeding up

December 3, 2014

Time is closing in on two of the most hotly debated issues of the Unitary Patent (UP) package: the level of the UP renewal fees and the distribution key for the partition of these fees between…

Thomas Musmann (Rospatt Osten Pross)

Punitive damages in Europe? The ECJ will have a word on it!

November 21, 2014

The newly established 15th Patent Senate of the Appeals Court of Düsseldorf (Presiding Judge Dr. Ulrike Voß) has referred a number of questions concerning the calculation of damages in IP cases to…

Kluwer Patent blogger

The Preparatory Committee on the opinion on the Spanish challenge of the Unified Patent Court: ‘It couldn’t be much better’

November 19, 2014

The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is very satisfied with the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) on the Spanish challenge. As…

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