Early start as Brazil’s Ministry of Health published Public Call No. 1/2026 (January 8), aimed at identifying innovative digital health solutions and potential partners aligned with the Brazilian…
Brazil’s SEP (standard-essential patent) landscape had interesting developments in 2025. What had long been a promising—but relatively contained—jurisdiction for SEP enforcement became, last year, a…
I wish everyone a happy 2026. As always at the beginning of a new year, we take a look back at the previous one from the perspective of proceedings before the Swiss Federal Patent Court (FPC). One of…
Colombia’s handling of preliminary injunctions in disputes over standard essential patents (SEPs) have attracted the scrutiny of the Andean Community. This blogpost revisits these developments from…
More than a decade has passed since the creative and dynamic patent courts in Barcelona decided to introduce an intellectual property fast action protocol aimed at ensuring an extremely rapid service…
The EU Biotech Act is a legislative initiative aimed at simplifying biotech regulation, boosting innovation and investment, and strengthening Europe’s competitiveness and biotech ecosystem, which we…
As the festive season approaches, we want to take a moment to thank everyone who joined us for the Kluwer UPC Christmas Quiz 2025. Your participation and enthusiasm made this year’s quiz a great…
The Brazilian PTO (BRPTO) has just introduced a significant regulatory change affecting patent applications in the field of electric communication technologies. Through Ordinance #17/2025, published…
1 January 2026 marks 30 years since the end of the one-year transitional period for developed country Members of the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’) to apply the provisions of the Agreement on Trade…
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…
