Matthew Naylor - February 10, 2025 UPC Weekly - Two infringement actions, only one counterclaim for revocation, and an EPO opposition with rocket boosters 2025 Week 6 Lenovo/Motorola and Ericsson are battling it out in an ongoing global dispute about 5G ...
Matthew Naylor - February 3, 2025 UPC Weekly - The UPC’s long arm jurisdiction balances against a strict approach to validity 2025 Week 5 Long before the UPC opened its doors for business, there was speculation about whether ...
Matthew Naylor - January 27, 2025 UPC Weekly - No second bite of the cherry for an intervener at the UPC 2025 Week 4 In the usual run of patent litigation, there is a claimant and a defendant and the rest ...
Matthew Naylor - January 20, 2025 UPC Weekly - Damages and added matter at the UPC 2025 Week 3 The UPC has most definitely kicked into gear. Each week there are increasing numbers of ...
Matthew Naylor - January 6, 2025 UPC Weekly - UPC transparency by numbers 2025 Week 1 How easy is it to get hold of documents from UPC cases? The easy answer “it depends” is ...
Matthew Naylor - December 30, 2025 UPC Weekly - Pay to play at the UPC 2024 Week 52 Both Apple and Google have recently succeeded in persuading the UPC Local Division ...
Matthew Naylor - December 23, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC gets tough with penalty payment orders 2024 Week 51 Great – the UPC has just decided that your patent is valid and infringed. You get an ...
Matthew Naylor - December 16, 2024 UPC Weekly - The 9 second rule at the UPC 2024 Week 50 Does it matter who gets to the doors of the UPC first? Does it matter if you get there ...
Matthew Naylor - December 9, 2024 UPC Weekly - Very appealing – preliminary injunction overturned 2024 Week 49 SharkNinja have managed to persuade the UPC Court of Appeal to overturn a preliminary ...
Matthew Naylor - December 2, 2024 UPC Weekly - Front-loading and obviousness at the UPC 2024 Week 48 In NJOY v VMR, the UPC Central Division Paris revoked VMR’s patent EP 3456214 B2 on 27 ...
Matthew Naylor - November 25, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC finds infringement using a doctrine of equivalents 2024 Week 47 Back in June 2024 (UPC Weekly 2024 week 23), we set out a few “known unknowns” – ...
Matthew Naylor - November 18, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC dials up the advantages for patentees 2024 Week 46 We report this week on two new UPC decisions that make the UPC an even more attractive ...
Matthew Naylor - November 11, 2024 UPC Weekly - NJOY duel with Juul 2024 Week 45 5 November 2024 saw two decisions handed down by the UPC Paris Central Division (CD) ...
Matthew Naylor - November 4, 2024 UPC Weekly - All of the fizz and none of the squeeze 2024 Week 44 SodaStream v Aarke is a decision on the merits of an infringement case based on EP ...
Matthew Naylor - October 28, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC confirms approach to inventive step for life science inventions 2024 Week 43 10x Genomics and NanoString have been duking it out at the UPC since the court opened ...
Matthew Naylor - October 21, 2024 UPC Weekly - Light emitting diode patent falls into a black hole of invalidity 2024 Week 42 Last week we did a deep dive into some LED technology to explain the decision of the ...
Matthew Naylor - October 14, 2024 UPC Weekly - A pro-patent decision on infringement and validity 2024 Week 41 This week we report on Seoul Viosys v Expert Klein, a full decision on infringement ...
Matthew Naylor - October 7, 2024 UPC Weekly - Costs: the UPC’s Big Lever 2024 Week 40 This week we report on a UPC Court of Appeal decision that focuses only on costs, and ...
Matthew Naylor - September 30, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal digs into the detail in a new preliminary injunction case 2024 Week 39 Outdoor equipment makers Ortovox and Mammut are locked in a UPC battle about avalanche ...
Matthew Naylor - September 23, 2024 UPC Weekly - The first UPC SEP injunction 2024 Week 38 On 13 September 2024, the UPC Munich Local Division handed down its decision in the ...
Matthew Naylor - September 16, 2024 UPC Weekly - Clearing the way can lead to UPC bifurcation and language complexities 2024 Week 37 Let’s say that you are a company based outside Europe and intend to launch a new ...
Matthew Naylor - September 9, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC preliminary injunctions – a top-up 2024 Week 36 Just two weeks ago we reviewed UPC case law on preliminary injunctions (PIs), giving ...
Lucy Coe - September 2, 2024 UPC Weekly - Let’s brake for a minute, and talk about Tesla 2024 Week 35 Last week saw two decisions handed down from the UPC Local Divisions as part of ...
Matthew Naylor - August 19, 2024 UPC Weekly - Revisiting transparency of UPC proceedings 2024 Week 33 The UPC has been doing a lot of stuff right. Litigators praise the preparedness of the ...
Sean Jauss - August 12, 2024 UPC Weekly - Now let’s talk about saisies 2024 Week 32 There is no discovery at the UPC.
Matthew Naylor - August 5, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC revocation versus EPO opposition – playing out in not-so-slow-mo 2024 Week 31 What happens when you have the same parties fighting over revocation of the same ...
Matthew Naylor - July 29, 2024 UPC Weekly - Where’s your UPC off-ramp? 2024 Week 30 Every litigator needs to have a clear view of the possible routes out of litigation. ...
Matthew Naylor - July 15, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Local Divisions - the reluctant bifurcators 2024 Week 28 This week we look at how the UPC is handling requests to split substantive ...
Matthew Naylor - July 8, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC overturns EPO opposition division decision on the same prior art 2024 Week 27 In the race to be the first UPC division to produce a written decision on a main ...
Matthew Naylor - July 1, 2024 UPC Weekly - Three month delay fatal for a preliminary injunction application 2024 Week 26 On 3 June 2024, the UPC Local Division in Hamburg decided to refuse a preliminary ...
Matthew Naylor - June 24, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC uses EPO approach to added subject matter 2024 Week 25 There was lots of UPC news to hold the interest this week but for me the standout was ...
Matthew Naylor - June 17, 2024 UPC Weekly - Opting-out from the UPC: the Who, the When and the Why 2024 Week 24 It seems like a long time ago now, but from March to May 2023, the “sunrise period” of ...
Matthew Naylor - June 10, 2024 UPC Weekly - Three Known Unknowns at the UPC 2024 Week 23 It’s a bit risky to write a blog where you hope it will go out of date quickly. But ...
Matthew Naylor - June 3, 2024 UPC Weekly - Should we stay or should we go on? 2024 Week 22 This week we report on the UPC revocation action in Bitzer v. Carrier and the related ...
Matthew Naylor - May 28, 2024 UPC Weekly - Let’s talk about costs 2024 Week 21 This week we focus how the UPC is dealing with requests for security for costs and the ...
Matthew Naylor - May 20, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal confirms their own case law on claim interpretation but sidesteps question of file wrapper estoppel 2024 Week 20 The UPC Court of Appeal have issued another decision on a preliminary injunction – ...
Matthew Naylor - May 13, 2024 UPC Weekly - High bar to challenge the jurisdiction of the UPC 2024 Week 19 This week saw the UPC issue two decisions about its own jurisdiction. Where a ...
Matthew Naylor - May 7, 2024 UPC Weekly - Preliminary injunctions at the UPC – get your defence ready 2024 Week 18 This week we look at a recent UPC first instance decision for a preliminary ...
Matthew Naylor - April 29, 2024 UPC Weekly - Battling the Biosimilars: opt-outs, preliminary injunctions & protective letters 2024 Week 17 This week we delve into the details of the first two UPC disputes involving ...
Matthew Naylor - April 22, 2024 UPC Weekly - Language of proceedings at the UPC 2024 Week 16 This week we focus on the language of proceedings at the UPC, considering when the ...
Matthew Naylor - April 15, 2024 UPC Weekly - Time-dependent transparency of UPC proceedings? 2024 Week 15 The week saw the Court of Appeal issue its decision on public access to court file ...
Matthew Naylor - April 10, 2024 UPC Weekly - Mind your costs 2024 Week 14 The UPC Court of Appeal issued a collection of five appeal decisions on 3 April 2024 ...
Matthew Naylor - April 3, 2024 Public access to UPC proceedings When the UPC was set up, a basic tenet was set out in Article 45 of the UPC Agreement, that the ...
Eliot Ward - October 4, 2023 UPC at four months old - a review The UPC is now four months old and the Court of First Instance is already quite busy. As of 4 ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 30, 2023 Battery insights & IP trends - new special report We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest special report Battery insights & IP ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 29, 2022 Patent Litigation Trends in England & Wales - new report We are delighted to release our latest report Patent Litigation Trends in England and Wales.
Matthew Naylor - September 23, 2022 UPC: Rules of Procedure finalised and in force The Unitary Patent Court now has a revised set of Rules of Procedure. These came into force on 1 ...
Matthew Naylor - May 5, 2021 Case review: what can be considered as prior art when assessing inventive step? Case - T 0211/06 In the decision T 0211/06 from the EPO Board of Appeal (BoA), Engineering partner ...
Matthew Naylor - November 29, 2020 Graphene getting the automotive industry into gear In the years since graphene was first created at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Professors ...
Matthew Naylor - April 9, 2020 Crown Use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic As discussed in a previous blog, the UK Government has the power to authorise (either in advance, ...
Matthew Naylor - August 30, 2019 Printing with graphene: exploring the inks set to unleash graphene's potential Graphene has been widely heralded as a game-changer in the research and development of new ...