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UPC – Infringement by equivalence is becoming clearer, but a ruling from the Court of Appeal is still awaited
As provided for in Article 69(1) EPC, “the extent of the protection conferred by a European patent […] shall be determined by the claims.”
The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court defines the standards to assess “added matter”
In decision UPC_CoA_774/2024, dated October 2, 2025, the Court of Appeal of the UPC held that the same standard applies to assess “added matter” in granted claims of a patent whether in view of the application as filed, or in view of each parent application from which the patent derives, when the patent is issued from a divisional application.
Unified Patent Court: the recognition of the French “saisie-contrefaçon” mechanism at the European level
The “saisie-contrefaçon” is a long-standing evidentiary measure familiar to French intellectual property practitioners. It has been successfully incorporated into the framework governing the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”), which has been in force for two years. The main points to remember are presented below.
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.
UDRP complaint: counterfeiting is not equivalent to cybersquatting
The Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) procedure is an arbitration procedure initiated with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center allowing trademark owners to oppose the abusive registration of a domain name.