Category: Unified Patent Court (UPC)

A patent dispute before the Unified Patent Court places a premium on preparation. Technical facts, infringement arguments, validity challenges and supporting evidence need to form a coherent case early in the proceedings. For companies, this creates a ...

The Unified Patent Court has created a litigation environment in which procedural preparation can determine strategic options very early. Cases are highly structured, important factual and technical arguments need to be developed from the outset, and ...

The Unified Patent Court has changed the architecture of European patent litigation. A company can now obtain remedies across a large part of Europe through a single proceeding, cases move comparatively quickly, and decisions taken in one forum may in ...

The Unified Patent Court has entered a new communication phase. The basic architecture of the system is increasingly familiar. For companies facing an actual dispute, the harder question is no longer simply how the UPC works. It is how to prepare a ca ...

The Unified Patent Court is gradually changing the strategic characteristics of European patent portfolios. What began as a new institutional framework for patent litigation is increasingly influencing decisions that arise much earlier in the life of ...

The Unified Patent Court is no longer a new institution in European patent litigation. It is becoming a central part of the strategic environment in which international companies enforce patents, defend market positions and prepare for disputes across ...

The Unified Patent Court has moved rapidly from institutional experiment to an important venue for European patent litigation. Since opening in June 2023, it has created new possibilities for cross-border enforcement, central revocation, provisional m ...

For many years, European patent strategy followed a familiar pattern. Companies filed at the European Patent Office, validated nationally, enforced nationally, defended nationally, and often treated litigation as something that would happen in selecte ...

The Unified Patent Court is no longer a legal experiment waiting to prove itself. It has become a market. And like every serious market, it creates new needs, new service categories, new positioning opportunities and new pressure on those who advise c ...

In cloud infrastructure and high-performance computing, IP decisions rarely stand alone. They sit inside complex business architectures shaped by data processing, distributed systems, long-term enterprise contracts, public-sector requirements, cyberse ...