preliminary injunctions

The first question before a European launch is not whether the product infringes. It is where, against whom, on what record and on what timetable that question will be tested. Market-entry opinions…

Before the Unified Patent Court, a launch communication leads a double life. It can show that infringement is imminent. It can also fix the moment when the right holder knew enough to ask for…

A court of appeal is not a scoreboard, and it is worth saying so plainly at this stage of the debate on the Unified Patent Court. The discussion about how cases are distributed across the UPC’s…

The UPC Paris Local Division has just released its much-anticipated decision in Merz v. Viatris, which at first glance looks like a familiar pharmaceutical case. A generic product moves through the…

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…

For months, commentary on Boehringer has flourished across the European patent community. Yet amid the noise, the fundamental question—what the decision truly changes in the logic of injunctions…

 Introduction: A Concert InterruptedImagine a Rammstein concert—tight rhythms, explosive precision, and overwhelming power. That’s what many expected from the German divisions of the UPC: efficiency,…

Is Germany no longer the Eldorado for preliminary injunctions (“PI”) applicants? Whatever the answer to this question, the UPC local division of the most famous German patent forum (i.e., Düsseldorf)…

Reading the title of this paper, perhaps you will smile, thinking about all the discussions that this issue has already ignited, even before the UPC came into force. Since the beginning, most…