On 24 April 2024, in case UPC_CFI_316/2023, the UPC’s Paris Central Division granted Nicoventures Trading Limited access to written pleadings and evidence in a patent revocation case brought by NJOY Netherlands B.V. against Juul Labs International, Inc concerning...
The UPC’s rules of procedure provide that when deciding whether to grant a preliminary injunction, the court may require the party applying for the preliminary injunction to show with a “sufficient degree of certainty” that the patent in question is valid and...
The application for the issue of an injunction resulted from a dispute between myStromer AG, the proprietor of European Patent No. 2546134, and RevoltZycling AG, the alleged infringer of the European patent in question. The Judge’s reasoning for issuing the...
In 2013, several Member States of the European Union concluded the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (the “UPC Agreement”). The purpose of that Agreement was to establish a common court for hearing infringement and revocation actions regarding European patents, with...
We reported in our article of December 2022 that the start date of the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) had been delayed yet again, this time in view of some difficulties many users were having with acquiring the authentication devices required to access the UPC’s Case...
We reported in our article of October 2022 that the UPC Preparatory team had published its “Implementation roadmap” for bringing the European Union’s Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (the “UPC Agreement”) into force early next year. Specifically, it was expected...
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