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…
A ball may reach the line and still not cross it. Jurisdiction obeys the same logic.The order delivered on 13 March 2026 by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court in Adobe Inc, OpenAI LP &…
Lesson 4: The UPC will not apply the Problem-Solution-Approach as developed by the EPOThis is now abundantly clear. In November 2025, the first and the second panel of the CoA have agreed on a common…
Six months after the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") began its operations, we published an entry in this blog entitled The UPC is dead. Long live the UMC!; "UMC" standing for Unified Munich Court.The…
On 6 March 2026, the UPC Court of Appeal in Dyson v Dreame & Eurep referred four questions concerning the extent of the UPC’s long-arm jurisdiction to the Court of Justice of the European Union –…
For the past year, European patent lawyers have been discussing the “long arm” of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as if jurisdiction were simply a question of geographical reach. In cross-border…
Key Takeaway: The Unified Patent Court is no longer an experiment. With filings up sharply and practitioners increasingly confident in using the system, litigation before the UPC is developing its…
