“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements.” — Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950The Unified Patent Court was not created to…
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…
It has been a while since I last commented on the case law of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on validity. To be precise, it was on 22 July 2024 in a blog titled “First Lessons on Validity before the…
I reported last year on the three-part article series published in EPI Information by Tamaris Bucher, Principal Patent Attorney at Novartis, on the EPO’s approach to assessing inventive step for…
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…
Space technologies have become increasingly strategic in the global innovation landscape. From satellite communications and Earth observation to advanced propulsion systems, space-related…
The preliminary opinion of the Enlarged Board in G 1/25 can be found here. At present, the Enlarged Board seem set to uphold the EPO practice of requiring adaptation of the description, both in…
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…
As previously reported in this blog, on 11 February 2026, the UK Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2026]…
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…
