Category: Unified Patent Court (UPC)

The Unified Patent Court has quickly become more than a new venue for European patent litigation. It has become a communication test for IP practice groups. The legal substance matters, of course: jurisdiction, remedies, provisional measures, bifurcat ...

The introduction of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has fundamentally changed how ICT companies can structure, prosecute, and enforce their European patent portfolios. In fields such as telecommunications, software, AI, and conne ...

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The introduction of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has fundamentally changed how companies can enforce and manage patent rights across Europe. In transportation and logistics, this development meets a sector undergoing deep tech ...

A growing number of signals from the industry suggest a clear mismatch in the European market for patent support around the Unified Patent Court. Companies do recognize the strategic relevance of the UPC. Yet much of what they need is not visibly addr ...

In data compression, patent strategy is no longer only about protecting technical inventions. Video and audio codecs, AI-enabled optimisation tools and interoperability layers sit deep inside digital ecosystems, where enforcement can affect not just o ...

The introduction of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has fundamentally changed how companies structure and manage their European patent portfolios. For many industries, this is already a strategic question. In life sciences, howev ...

The landscape of patent litigation is markedly different between the United States (US) and other jurisdictions, especially the territory that is covered by the Unified Patent Court (UPC), which is dubbed as “UPC Land” because of its unique features w ...

In principle, the same subject matter shall not be claimed by two patents. Nevertheless, this does not happen so rarely in practice. This is because patent applicants who claim both national protection and protection by a European patent often file a ...