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Obviousness European Union Unified Patent Court

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

The UPC – Two Years On

The Unified Patent Court – a one-stop-shop for European patent litigation – is now two years old. As it enters its third year of operation, we look at the approach that is becoming established in the new system, drawing out...more

A&O Shearman

The UPC’s interpretation of inventive step: does it follow the problem-solution approach?

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UPC case law on the assessment of inventive step is still evolving. Most local division (LD) decisions have indicated a slightly diverging practice from the EPO’s problem-solution approach. However, more recently, others have...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Skilled Artisan’s View Is Decisive in Assessing Asserted Claim Drafting Error

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) clarified the legal standard for correcting obvious type inaccuracies in patent claims, explaining that the view of a skilled person at the filing date is decisive...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Brave New World: UPC Central Division’s First Opinion is a Revocation of Antibody Claims as Lacking Inventive Step

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation of a counterpart U.S. patent in the same family for lack of enablement (21-757 Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (05/18/23) (supremecourt.gov)), the UPC has now rendered a decision on its...more

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