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Key Takeaways: Strategies from the First Two Years of the UPC

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) represents a transformative development in European patent litigation. Fenwick’s Ryan Johnson teamed up with Bird & Bird’s Boris Kreye and Chris de Mauny to explore important considerations and...more

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How to commence main proceedings before the UPC: deadlines and court fees

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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

McDermott Will & Schulte

‘Pay-for-Delay’ Agreements can be Restrictions of Competition by their very Nature

On 25 March 2021 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismissed all the appeals brought by Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck) and five generic manufacturers against the judgments of the General Court of...more

White & Case LLP

The ECJ’s Lundbeck judgment offers little new on patent settlements but gives birth to an interesting principle: sector inquiries...

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On 25 March 2021, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") dismissed all the appeals against the European Commission's decision to fine Lundbeck and several other companies for entering into anti-competitive patent settlement...more

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More on Patent Settlements Including Litigation at the European Courts

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Last week I posted on the European Commission’s (EC) latest report into patent settlement agreements between originator and generic companies in the European Union (EU). The EC says each time it produces these reports that...more

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