by Agne Augustinaite | Jun 16, 2026 | UPC
Background The Claimant, Agathon, was the proprietor of a European patent relating to a mechanical system designed to improve alignment in industrial machinery. Particularly, the invention concerns the repeated opening and closing of heavy metal components where...
by Sean Hutchinson | May 19, 2026 | UPC
Background: Long-Arm Jurisdiction The Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) was introduced as a central forum for enforcing European patents across the European Union (“EU”). However, not all EU Member States (e.g. Spain) signed up to the UPC Agreement (“UPCA”), and some...
by Chloe Sullivan | Jan 20, 2026 | UPC
To briefly recap the key events leading up to this decision, the US Supreme Court found a lack of enablement when assessing the PCSK9 antibody claims in Amgen’s US patent and the Munich Central Division of the UPC initially revoked the European equivalent based on...
by Luke Pettit | Jan 15, 2026 | UPC
Background The UPC Court of Appeal’s decision in Otec v. Steros provides an interesting insight into claim interpretation and the constraints on relying on post-filing experimental evidence at the UPC. The case, UPC Court of Appeal decision 579/2025, arose from a...
by David Eyre | Jun 10, 2025 | UPC
The jurisprudence of the United Patent Court (UPC) is relatively new. Thus, a question of ongoing interest is to what extent the UPC will follow the jurisprudence of the European Patent Office (EPO) and/or one of the UPC member states was not fully known. The...
by Sean Hughes | May 28, 2025 | UPC
Munich Local Division Endorses EPO’s Problem-Solution Approach In Edwards Lifesciences vs Meril (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the Munich Local Division (LD) has affirmed the use of the problem-solution approach (PSA) for assessing inventive step. The PSA, a method long...
Recent Comments