Matthew Naylor - June 9, 2025 UPC Weekly - Playing the longer game – patentee wins on the merits after a failed PI 2025 Week 23 Sometimes you need to know when to take a step back from enforcing your patent, and ...
Matthew Naylor - May 27, 2025 UPC Weekly - Juicer patent: no additives but no invention 2025 Week 21 In April 2024, Korean kitchen appliance firm Hurom launched patent infringement ...
Eliot Ward - May 19, 2025 UPC Weekly - ‘Off label’ and off the hook: UPC finds no infringement of second medical use patent 2025 Week 20 For many years, the EPO has recognised that the novelty and inventiveness of a ...
Lucy Coe - April 14, 2025 UPC Weekly - Infringement of product-by-process at the UPC 2025 Week 15 Another first from the UPC this week – how to go about deciding on infringement and ...
Matthew Naylor - April 7, 2025 UPC Weekly - Hey, why don’t we all just use the problem-solution approach? 2025 Week 14 It’s been a big week at the UPC. So many decisions issued that normally it would be a ...
Matthew Naylor - March 17, 2025 Historical infringement at the UPC and selecting remedies à la carte 2025 Week 11 The UPC has already made it clear that you can sue for damages for patent infringement ...
Matthew Naylor - February 24, 2025 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal takes a new approach to assessing added subject matter 2025 Week 8 It has always been clear that the UPC Court of Appeal (UPC CoA) would have a hugely ...
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 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 ...
Eliot Ward - January 13, 2025 UPC Weekly - Alexion v Samsung & Amgen – Patentee’s attempted U-turn on claim interpretation foiled by UPC Court of Appeal 2025 Week 2 Tailoring one’s claim interpretation for the jurisdiction at hand can be a canny way of ...
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 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 - 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 ...
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 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 ...
Thomas Wolter - July 22, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Munich Central Division sets out a marker on how the UPC should approach inventive step 2024 Week 29 This week saw the first UPC decision on the merits issued in the long-running patent ...
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 - 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 ...
