Patent holders must start Unified Patent Court (UPC) proceedings on the merits within a certain period if they do not want to risk the revocation of provisional measures. The UPC has now clarified that filing the statement of...more
4/11/2025
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In a landmark decision Fives ECL, SAS v. REEL GmbH on January 16, 2025, the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) clarified the jurisdictional boundaries of the UPC. This decision has far-reaching...more
4/2/2025
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In this note, we will discuss the latest decisions on the merits from the Dutch patent court on the matter of plausibility and inventive step. These were handed down in two cases (BMS v Sandoz and BMS v Teva) on 30 October...more
11/15/2024
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Today marked a ‘historic moment’ for the UPC, as Klaus Gabrinsky, the President of the UPC Court of Appeal, noted in his opening remarks: the first UPC Court of Appeal hearing, on 18 December 2023 in Luxembourg.
The case...more