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Jurisdiction of the UPC: decision of the Court of Appeal
In this important decision (UPC_CoA_30/2024 APL_ 4000/2024 Fives ECL, SAS vs. REEL GmbH) the court of appeal decided whether the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has competence for deciding about damages for on infringement decided by a national court and whether it has jurisdiction an acts of infringement committed before the entry into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA). +
UPC extends its jurisdiction to the United Kingdom!
Decision UPC_CFI_355/2023 dated 28 January 2025. +
Lavoix: Your trusted partner for litigation before the Unified Patent Court
Since the establishment of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) one year ago, Lavoix, a European group specialized in intellectual property, has asserted itself as a leader in managing patent litigation. +
Romania will accede the UPC agreement on September 1st 2024
Romania has deposited its instrument of ratification on May 31, 2024 and will accede to the UPC agreement on September 1st, 2024. +
Cumulative Protection under the UPC Framework
Cumulative Protection: European Patent and National Patent vs Unitary Patent and National Patent +
Language of proceedings before the UPC: English 1 – German 0
In this interesting decision (UPC_CoA_101/2024 ApL_ 12116/2024 10x Genomics, Inc vs. Curio Bioscience Inc), the Court of Appeal ordered that the Language of proceedings should be changed from German to English. +
Grandfather clause for European Patent Attorneys
A European Patent Attorney may represent a party before the UPC provided he has the appropriate qualifications. These qualifications are defined by the “Rules on the European Patent Litigation Certificate and other appropriate qualifications” (or REPLC). +
Stay of proceedings in case of parallel proceedings before the UPC and the EPO: the Paris Central Division dismisses the request
In an order dated 8 January 2024, the Paris Central Division interpreted for the first time article 33 (10) of the Agreement concerning the stay of proceedings in the event of parallel proceedings likely to challenge the validity of the patent before the EPO. +
UNITARY PATENT AND UNIFIED PATENT COURT: ORGANIZATION AND IMPACTS ON IP RIGHTS
Camille Pecnard and Damien Colombié co-authored an article on the UPC and the unitary patent published this week in the Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA). They discuss the impacts on IP rights and the points to identify in order to anticipate the strategy to adopt. +
Austrian parliament choses to ratify the PAP-Protocol
Yesterday, December 2nd, 2021, the Austrian Bundesrat (second chamber of the Austrian Parliament) approved unanimously the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (the PAP-Protocol) of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). This means that once the Austrian Government will have deposited the corresponding instrument of ratification, Austria will be the 13th country to join the PAP-Protocol and the UPCA will enter into the provisional preparatory stage. As explained previously on this blog (see here), this choice of the Austrian Parliament may render possible the beginning of the United Patent Court by the end of 2022. +