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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court | August 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court | July 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court - March 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Unified Patent Court Publishes Its First Case Load Statistics

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The UPC, a single patent court for European Union Member States, has published the first statistics on its case load since its establishment in 2023. Between June 1, 2023, and January 31, 2024, a total of 196 cases were filed...more

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UPC: Better comply with UPC judgments – first penalty payment ordered

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On 18 October 2023, the Düsseldorf local division of the UPC in myStromer vs. Revolt Zycling (UPC_CFI_177/2023) imposed a EUR26,500 penalty on Revolt for breaching a preliminary injunction. This is the first penalty payment...more

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The UPC Means Business: Patentee Wins Preliminary Injunction

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The Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Local Division Munich has granted a preliminary injunction in favor of 10x Genomics, preventing NanoString Technologies, Inc. from selling its CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI) instruments...more

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A Win for Patentees: UPC Issues First Reasoned Decisions

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first reasoned decisions since launching on June 1 and, as expected, the decisions favor patentees. The UPC’s Local Division Düsseldorf ordered a preliminary injunction in one...more

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What You Need to Know About the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent

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A significant development in the patent world will take place on June 1, 2023, when European Union members will begin participating in a Unified Patent Court, or UPC. Originally agreed upon by most EU member states in January...more

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Are You Ready for the UPC? Act Now to Prepare for Its Opening on June 1

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On February 17, 2023, Germany ratified the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and triggered the UPC’s entry into force on June 1, 2023. The UPC will revolutionize patent enforcement across Europe and impact companies...more

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Germany Ratifies UPC Agreement; UP & UPC to Begin 1 June

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On February 17, Germany ratified the UPC Agreement, launching the countdown to the beginning of the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court. Germany’s ratification means that the Agreement will enter into force on 1 June...more

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Still Alive: The German "Automatic Injunction" in Patent Infringement Cases Under the New Patent Act

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The new PatG provides an exception to the general rule that injunctions result as a direct consequence of infringement for cases in which an immediate injunction would result in disproportionate hardship when weighing the...more

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Only One More Ratification Needed: European UPC Might Be Ready to Launch

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The German parliament recently passed the Approval Act (the Act) regarding the planned European Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the protocol on a UPC on provisional application (PPA). The Act was passed after Germany’s Federal...more

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Unified at Last? Germany’s Constitutional Court Removes UPC Hurdle

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On July 9, 2021, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court rejected a pair of applications for a preliminary injunction directed against the German Approval Act on the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC) (decision of June...more

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German Constitutional Court Rejects Requests for Interim Injunctions against Ratification of UPC Agreement

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Until last Friday, implementation of the European Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement and availability of a Unitary Patent for multiple EU states had been delayed by two Complaints for interim injunctions against German...more

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Green Light For UPC

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UPC – And it got up again- Having been sent down for the count by constitutional complaints in Germany, the road finally seems paved for the Unified Patent Court. On July 9, 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court...more

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Special Report - 2020 IP Law Year in Review - European Issues

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From a German perspective, 2020 saw highly interesting developments that may well have an impact even beyond the borders of Germany. For example, the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) in Sisvel v. Haier handed down...more

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Hard Knocks Keep Coming For Europe’s Unified Patent Court

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With brexited UK announcing that it will not join Europe’s long-awaited Unified Patent Court (UPC), the establishment of an efficient pan-European patent litigation system faces ever-mounting challenges. Last Friday, the...more

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Special Report - 2019 IP Law Year in Review – European Issues

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The last year of the 2010s has been prolific in terms of important new pieces of legislation and case law within the European Union, and in France and Germany in particular. Indeed, the European Parliament and the EU Council...more

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The Assertion of Extraterritorial Patent Jurisdiction in Europe

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US patents have some extraterritorial effect. A party can be liable for patent infringement if it supplies components of a patented invention to a foreign country to be assembled there. In WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical...more

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U.S. + Germany Patent Update – July 2018

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The prominent state of patent litigation in the United States and Germany is due not only to the size of its markets, but also to a recent increase in hearings before the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Patent...more

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Two Down, One to Go: The UK Ratifies Unified Patent Court Agreement

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On April 26, 2018, the United Kingdom ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement ("UPCA"). This act removed any doubts concerning the United Kingdom's determination to participate in the agreement post-Brexit. However, the...more

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UPC and Germany: Status update - Constitutional complaint, ratification timeline and more

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The constitutional complaint against the UPC ratification that was lodged with the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany earlier this year has received a lot of attention over the past few months as it could have the...more

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German Court Delays Implementation of Unified Patent Court Legislation

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Germany’s constitutional court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, has requested that the German President hold off on signing the legislation ratifying the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent (UP) following a...more

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The Impending Launch of the Unified Patent Court

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In a fundamental change to how European patents are going to be litigated in Europe, the United Patent Court (UPC) will soon have exclusive jurisdiction over European patent disputes and will be able to issue remedies that...more

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News from Abroad: Revised Provisional Timetable for the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court

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The Preparatory Committee of the UPC has published a revised timetable for the final stages of preparations for the opening of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The revised timetable indicates that the Sunrise Period during...more

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