Winning the jurisdiction argument in a long-arm case is not the same as having a claim. On 2 June 2026 the UPC Court of Appeal confirmed that the Mannheim Local Division had been right to hear…
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 &…
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…
