UPC Christmas Quiz 2025 – The Results

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 success!

We are delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s quiz is:

Dr Charlotte Jones

Congratulations, Charlotte! We will be in touch shortly to arrange delivery of your prize: a copy of "The UPC Judge as EU Judge: Cooperation Between the Unified Patent Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union" by Gerben Hartman, kindly donated by the Kluwer team.

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to test their UPC knowledge. We hope you enjoyed the challenge and learned something new along the way. 

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a prosperous new year!

Correct Answers to the UPC Christmas Quiz 2025

Here are the answers to the 20 questions:

1. Helsinki Local Division
2. 3
3. Lisbon Local Division
4. Panasonic
5. Mannheim Local Division (Fujifilm v Kodak UPC_CFI_365/2023, decision of 18 July 2025)
6. Brussels Local Division (CooperSurgival v Motiva & others, Hyler v Cretes, Barco v Yealink)
7. 39
8. The defendant must prove the prior use in every country where the defence is raised
9. The patent must enable substantially all embodiments falling within the ambit of the claim
10. 0
11. Whether the second medical use claim was in Swiss-type or EPC 2000 form
12. Views presented by the patentee and endorsed by the TBA can be an indication of the views of the person skilled in the art
13. 0
14. Only the Court of Appeal can refer questions to the CJEU
15. 80
16. The means can be any component that functionally interacts with a device to realise the inventive concept
17. RoP 355 (RoP 19 concerns preliminary objections, RoP131(c) concerns requests to lay open books and RoP 361 concerns actions manifestly bound to fail)
18. EUR 30,344,347
19. Aleš Zalar (Mr Zalar is the Director of the PMAC)
20. Question 18 – Answer ‘a’ spells Santa when the numbers are converted to letters ([19/S] [1/A] [14/N] [20/T] [1/A])