On 19 March 2026, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body established a panel in DS632, China – Worldwide Licensing Terms for Standard Essential Patents, the EU’s second SEP dispute with China. In the first…
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…
In late September, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Germany’s Munich Regional Court issued the world’s first “anti-interim license” injunction orders (AILIs). These…
The withdrawal of the European Commission’s Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) Regulation proposal earlier this year has left a significant void in EU intellectual property policy. This decision was…
A long time ago, in a Europe not so far away, the UPC was launched with the ambition of restoring Order to the galaxy of European patent litigation. Fragmentation was to be defeated, procedural unity…
In another standard essential patents (SEPs) case from the Unified Patent Court (UPC), on 18 December 2024 the Munich Local Division (LD) issued an injunction in favour of Huawei (UPC_CFI_9/2023, …
