Lucy Coe - June 2, 2025 UPC Weekly - Using parallel UPC and EPO proceedings as a strategic tool 2025 Week 22 As we enter the third year of the UPC, we are seeing more and more parallel UPC ...
Matthew Naylor - April 28, 2025 UPC Weekly - Costs at the UPC – some sharp edges to watch out for 2025 Week 17 This week we take a look at how the winning party at the UPC should apply for their ...
Matthew Naylor - March 31, 2025 Killer prior art? Time-limited offer from the UPC to escape costs 2025 Week 13 The UPC will use the big lever of costs awards to direct the behaviour of the parties, ...
Matthew Naylor - March 24, 2025 UPC Weekly - Some plain speaking from the UPC – on its existence and ambushes 2025 Week 12 There used to be a great rule-of-thumb for reading the headlines of certain British ...
Matthew Naylor - March 10, 2025 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal adds more colour to preliminary injunction decisions 2025 Week 10 We love having a couple of contrasting UPC decisions here at UPC Weekly. This time we ...
Matthew Naylor - March 3, 2025 UPC Weekly - The wood chipper, the restoration and the avalanche rescue sequel 2025 Week 9 There are three cases in the mix for discussion this week. First we look at an ...
Matthew Naylor - February 17, 2025 UPC Weekly - Secrets and files 2025 Week 7 One of the richest seams of UPC procedural case law so far is all about how parties can ...
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 - 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 - 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 ...
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 - 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 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 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 - 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 ...
