13th Mar 2024
As reported previously, the EPO has confirmed that it will accelerate opposition proceedings when there are parallel pending infringement or revocation actions before a national court of a contracting EPC state or before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
31st Jan 2024
On 26 January 2024, the Headquarters Agreement was signed by the President of the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Klaus Grabinski, and the Director General for Europe of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Nicola Verola, formally confirming the location of the third section of the Central Division of the UPC in Milan.
12th Dec 2023
In the November 2023 issue of the European Patent Office (EPO) Official Journal, the EPO has confirmed that it will accelerate “parallel opposition proceedings” in the interest of “legal certainty and procedural efficiency, as well as high quality and uniformity in the European patent system”.
1st Dec 2023
Listen to our latest episode as we celebrate the 6-month anniversary of the Unified Patent Court opening its doors.
2nd Nov 2023
It has been five months since the Unified Patent Court opened its doors. Although the number of substantive actions filed at the new court is not quite what some commentators initially expected, there have been a steady number of actions filed by parties from all over the world across a wide range of technologies.
12th Oct 2023
The UPC local division in Munich had the honour of the first oral hearing for a UPC preliminary injunction, but Düsseldorf had – largely unnoticed – issued the first UPC preliminary injunction ex parte based on a request filed on the 22nd of June 2023, without an opportunity for the defendant to be heard.
17th Aug 2023
As of 1 June 2023, the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) have been in effect. During the 3 month sunrise period (covering the period 1 March to 31 May 2023) and subsequently, proprietors of European patents and applicants of pending European patent applications have been able to file opt-out requests to avoid those European rights (if and when granted) falling under the jurisdiction of the UPC.
26th Jul 2023
The Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) is a multinational court on a multilingual continent. As a result, there are a variety of languages available as language of proceedings before the various divisions of the Court of First Instance, and before the Court of Appeal.