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UPC’s Hamburg Local Division provides guidance on the extent to which a patent may be used as its own “lexicon”

Agfa NV v Gucci & Anors. [UPC_CFI_278/2023] – Hamburg Local Division of the UPC (Klepsch, Schilling, Sarlin) – 30 April 2025 While we await a decision on G1/24 from the …

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UPC’s CFI (Milan) extends deadline to file defence to infringement claim to align with parallel EPO appeal proceedings

Dainese S.p.A. v. Alpinestars S.p.A. & ors. UPC_CFI_472/2024 – Milan Local Division (Perrotti, Zana, Klein, Ashley) – 15 January 2025 The Milan Local Division granted a defendant’s request for an …

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UPC on Doctrine of Equivalents

Plant-e Knowledge BV & anor v Arkyne Technologies SL UPC_CFI_239/2023 (Brinkman, Granata, Walker & Koke) – 22 November 2024 The Hague Local Division has handed down the first substantive UPC …

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UPC stakes claim for wide-reaching long-arm jurisdiction for European patents

Fujifilm Corporation v Kodak GmbH & ors – Thomas J, Dr Thom J and Dr Parchmann J.  – UPC_CFI_355/2023 –  28 January 2025 The Düsseldorf Local Division has delivered the …

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UPC Court of Appeal clarifies approach for interpreting claims with “obvious” errors

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Samsung Bioepis NL B.V. [UPC_CoA_402/2024] –Court of Appeal of the UPC (Grabinski, Blok, Gougé, Enderlin, Hedberg) – 20 December 2024 Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Amgen Technology …

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With the EPO and UPC adopting different frameworks for inventive step, is there potential for conflicting decisions?

The EPO regularly applies the problem and solution approach when deciding whether an invention involves an inventive step.  Central to this approach is identifying the technical differences between the invention …

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Paris Central Division of the UPC has provided guidance on what constitutes common general knowledge (“CGK”)

Netherlands B.V. v VMR Products LLC [UPC_CFI_307/2023] –Paris Central Division (Catalozzi, Zhilova, Tillmann) – 29 November 2024 The Paris Central Division of the UPC has provided guidance on what constitutes …

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UPC Court of Appeal Remits Meril’s request to stay infringement proceedings pending the outcome of EPO opposition

Meril Life Sciences PVT Limited & ors v Edwards Lifesciences Corporation [UPC-CoA-551/2024] –Court of Appeal of the UPC (Grabinski, Blok, Gougé) – 21 November 2024 The UPC’s First Panel of …

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Central Division takes pragmatic approach to late-filed submissions and revokes VMR’s patent for lack of inventive step

In Njoy v VMR (UPC_CFI_308/2023), the Paris Central Division confirmed that the “front loaded” provisions of the UPC should be interpreted in line with the principles of proportionality and procedural …

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