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Chinese companies13 Aug 2026
38%

of 2025 infringement actions at the UPC involved a Chinese party.

Chinese companies and the UPC: from enforcement targets to strategic users

The UPC's 2025 Annual Report shows Chinese parties playing a growing part in UPC litigation. We look at what that means.

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SEP and FRAND7 Jun 2026

Choosing your SEP battleground: UPC, Germany or UK?

The key points SEP owners should weigh when choosing where to litigate.

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Procedure21 Jan 2026

Confidentiality at the UPC: what litigants need to know

How sensitive information is protected, and when hearings can be private.

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Biopharma13 Apr 2026

Biopharma strategy in 2026: lessons from 2025 on AI, M&A and the UPC

What biopharma teams can take from 2025 as they plan for 2026.

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UK and the UPC26 Jun 2025

Unified Patent Court: the impact of Brexit

Could the UK take part in the UPC without rejoining the EU?

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Design Piracy or Functional Necessity: Court Rules on Breast Pump Battle in Chiaro Technology Limited v Mayborn (UK) Limited

09 January 2024
2024-01-09

The Claimant, Chiaro Technology Limited ("Chiaro"), is the owner of a number of registered designs of which several are incorporated into its product the ‘Elvie', a wearable breast pump.

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UPC Declines to Grant Provisional Injunction

08 January 2024
2024-01-08

SES-imagotag SA v Hanshow Technology Co. Ltd. and others UPC_CFI_292/2023 Order of 20 December 2023 (ORD_596193/2023)[1] SES-imagotag is the proprietor of EP 3883277, which had been opted out of the...

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Bioinformatics or Techbio: Semantic musings from a patent perspective

08 January 2024
2024-01-08

Bioinformatics has become an increasingly discussed topic in our increasingly digital world. Data analysis has always been part of biology but the increasing need and desire to analyse large data...

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Service on defendants outside the jurisdiction

05 January 2024
2024-01-05

Panasonic Holdings Corporation v Xiaomi Technology Germany GmbH & 9 Others (UPC_CFI_219/2023) Order of 8 December 2023 The Claimant argues that defendants 1, 2, and 8 based in China and 7 based in...

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End of the line: DABUS reaches its final stop in the UK

22 December 2023
2023-12-22

On 20 December 2023, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom handed down its judgment in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks [2023] UKSC 49 in which it unanimously...

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National or UPC jurisdiction for damages?

21 December 2023
2023-12-21

Fives ECL, SAS v REEL GmbH (UPC_CFI_274/2023) Order of 17 November 2023 On 8 August Fives ECL, SAS ("Fives") lodged in hard copy a claim for the determination of damages.

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Request for a stay

19 December 2023
2023-12-19

Astellas Insitute for Regenerative Medicine v Healios KK and Osaka Univerity (UPC_CFI_80/2023) Order of 20 November 2023 On 1 June 2023, Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine ("Astellas")...

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Penalty Payment Ordered in 10x Genomics v Nanostring

18 December 2023
2023-12-18

10x Genomics, President & Fellows of Harvard College v Nanostring Technologies Inc and others, UPC_CFI_2/2023, Order of 5 December 2023 [1] ORD_ 577241/2023 Following the grant of a provisional...

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Therapists’ passing-off claims, libel and harassment allegations unravelled

15 December 2023
2023-12-15

This article first appeared in WTR Daily, part of World Trademark Review, in (month/year). For further information, please go to www.worldtrademarkreview.com.

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Report on EPO Patent Knowledge Week

13 December 2023
2023-12-13

The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently held many online conferences but the real highlight has been the Patent Knowledge week. There were three full days on 28-30 November discussing AI, the...

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Clause Ambiguity and Contract Disputes: Insights from Capita v IBM (2023)

07 December 2023
2023-12-07

Introduction This case relates to (as stated by the judge) a "rare dispute as to the construction of a contract where one or both parties do not make some appeal to matters of factual matrix to...

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Fast Chips: US PTO launches fast-track examination for semiconductor patents

05 December 2023
2023-12-05

The USPTO has announced a Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program for fast-track examination of qualifying semiconductor-related inventions. The program is designed to support the US CHIPS Act, which...

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Separate revocation claim and counterclaim both to proceed

01 December 2023
2023-12-01

Meril Italy srl v Edwards Life Sciences Corporation (551308/2023; UPC_CFI_255/2023) Order of 13 November 2023 (ORD_578356/2023) Background On 1 June 2023 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ("Edwards")...

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Be careful what you wish for - Court of Appeal refuses to let party rely on argument it had dropped multiple years ago

30 November 2023
2023-11-30

Lufthansa Technik AG v Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 1306 The Court of Appeal has denied Lufthansa permission to rely on certain arguments at an upcoming damages inquiry...

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Clearview AI victorious on a fact specific exemption but what does this judgment mean for the extra territorial effect of the UK GDPR

29 November 2023
2023-11-29

Clearview AI victorious on a fact specific exemption but what does this judgment mean for the extra territorial effect of the UK GDPR, in particular Article 3(2)(b)? (Clearview AI Inc v The...

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Christof Höhne
Partner, Rechtsanwalt, UPC Representative
Jerome Spaargaren
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Matthew Blaseby
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Michael Nielsen
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Darren Smyth
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, Design Attorney, UPC Representative
Monika Rai
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, Solicitor, UPC Representative
Isabelle Schaller
Partner, Rechtsanwältin, UPC Representative
Sebastian Fuchs
Partner, Rechtsanwalt, UPC Representative
Gareth Probert
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Heather McCann
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
James Seymour
Partner, UK and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative
Catherine Howell
Partner, Solicitor

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