Recent decisions from various UPC divisions provide valuable guidance for parties seeking to amend their cases or patents. The decisions emphasize that it is crucial for parties to know how to distinguish between the rules...more
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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Alexion Pharmaceuticals v Amgen (UPC_Coa-405/2024) and Alexion Pharmaceuticals v Samsung Bioepis NL BV (UPC_CoA-402/2024); December 20, 2024.
The UPC Court of Appeal has confirmed a strict approach to correcting erroneous...more
2/5/2025
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Important decisions abound as the UPC navigates the still often unchartered waters of its Rules of Procedure (RoP).
We recently discussed two orders by the Munich Division where third-party access requests based on...more