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12, 2025
In a key decision dated 20 October 2025 (UPC_CFI_189/2024), in the case between Meril Life Sciences and Edwards Lifesciences, the Paris Central Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has provided important clarifications on its approach to assessing inventive step.
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12, 2025
On 23 September 2025, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) issued an important order (UPC_CoA_631/2025 and 632/2025) regarding the admission of Apple as an intervener in appeals filed by Ericsson in infringement actions pending before the local division of Milan against ASUS, Arvato et Digital River.
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11, 2025
The Administrative Committee of the Unified Patent Court has adopted amendments to the court fees.
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11, 2025
As it may be already known, the European Patent Office (EPO) has changed the formal rules in order to accept coloured or greyscale drawings.
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11, 2025
As provided for in Article 69(1) EPC, “the extent of the protection conferred by a European patent […] shall be determined by the claims.”
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10, 2025
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,
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10, 2025
In case T 0697/22, the Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.02 has referred the following legal questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal:
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10, 2025
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.
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09, 2025
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.
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09, 2025
The CMS is the case management system of the Unified Patent Court (UPC, https://www.unified-patent-court.org). It enables, among other things, the registration of legal representatives, the submission of documents by parties, access to case files, and the filing of opt-outs.