UPC

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…

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…

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…

In Du Hast, But Not So Fast, I suggested that the apparent hegemony of a few UPC divisions would in time recede under the pressure of practice and appellate calibration. The plot seems to be moving…

When the Unified Patent Court opened its doors on 1 June 2023, Europe’s patent community held its breath. Most commentators described what had just begun — the first filings, the first injunctions,…

The withdrawal of the European Commission’s Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) Regulation proposal earlier this year has left a significant void in EU intellectual property policy. This decision was…

Traditionally, patents are territorial rights: their effects are limited to the territory in which they take effect, and therefore any infringing acts are necessarily localised in that territory…