Case Reports

Zentiva Portugal, LDA v. Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH (UPC_CFI_41/2025 relating to EP1830843) Court of First Instance Order dated 8 May 2025 ORD_18599/2025 [1] Summary The Application for...

Sanofi Biotechnology SAS, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.,v Amgen Inc. and others UPC_CFI_505/2024 Decision of 13 May 2025 ORD_598583/2023 This decision from the Düsseldorf Local Division sets out for...

Decision of 2 June 2025 (Order no. ORD_23545/2025) Ekso originally brought infringement proceedings against XSYS in respect of its EP 3 742 231 patent, relating to a method of curing photo-curable...

The Unified Patent Court has now been running for two years. To mark the occasion, we have looked at the cases and the decisions over the past two years, and share our thoughts on the current state...

Order of 25 September 2024 [1] This Order to Preserve Evidence pursuant to Art. 60 UPCA concerns a machine manufactured by the defendant that was being displayed at a 3-day trade fair.

Biolitec Holding GmbH & Co. KG v Light Guide Optics Germany GmbH and S.I.A. LIGHTGUIDE International (UPC_CoA_563/2024, APL_53716/2024) Court of Appeal Order dated 24 February 2025 [1] Background...

AGFA NV v Gucci (various entities) UPC_CFI_278/2023 Decision of 30 April 2025 (ORD_598576/2023)[1] This Decision from the Hamburg LD concerns AGFA's patent EP3388490, which relates to decorating...

Fujifilm Corporation v. Kodak GmbH, Kodak Holding GmbH, Kodak Graphic Communications GmbH (UPC_CFI_359/2023) Order of 2 April 2025 (ORD_598586/2023)[1] This decision is part of the litigation between...

Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd v Aiko Energy Germany GmbH and others Order of 14 April 2025[1] The Claimant brought proceedings on 23 December 2024 against Aiko Energy Germany and seven other solar panel...

Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC v Speed Care Mineral GmbH (UPC_CFI_701/2024 relating to EP2007811) Order of 21 February 2025 (ORD_ 68880/2024)[1] Application for preliminary injunction refused.

(UPC_CFI_16/2025) Procedural Order of the Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court delivered on 22 January 2025 regarding the preserving of evidence This is a decision on the preservation...

Yellow Sphere Innovations GmbH, Erwin Härtwich v Knaus Tabbert AG UPC_CFI_50/2024 Decision of 10 April 2025 (ORD_68984/2024[1]) This decision from the Düsseldorf local division has a number of...

Emboline, Inc. v AorticLab srl (UPC_CFI_628/2024) Order of 16 April 2025 (ORD_9097/2025)[1] The LD Munich has recently provided some guidance on when security for costs will be available as well as...

Barco NV v Yealink Network Technology Co. Ltd. & Ors. (UPC_CFI_582/2024) Order of 21 March 2025 (ORD_68979/2024)[1] Barco is a company operating in the entertainment, enterprise and healthcare...

Accord Healthcare B.V. & Others v Novartis AG (UPC_CFI_6984/2024) Application to Intervene by Zentiva K.S. and Zentiva Portugal, LDA Order of 27 March 2025 (ORD_10348/2025)[1] The Claimants...

BackgroundThe Claimant, Vernacare Limited ("Vernacare"), and the Defendant, Moulded Fibre Products Limited ("MFP"), both manufacture and sell washbowls, which are made from moulded paper pulp as used...

Teva v Novartis [2022] EWHC 2847 (Pat)In another patent revocation and infringement counterclaim action between Teva and Novartis, in this instance involving a swallowable tablet version of...

BackgroundPest Control Office Limited (the "EUTM proprietor"), on behalf of Banksy, sought to register the figurative mark of a monkey wearing a sign (figure 1) in a number of categories, including...

BackgroundKigen (UK) Limited is a company which produces software relating to eSIM and iSIMs technology. Thales Dis France SA (also known as Gemalto SA) is a manufacturer of electronic systems and...

A group of influential MPs from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)Select Committee has released its Report on the semiconductor industry in the UK.

Heard by Mr Justice Mellor on 16 September 2022 AU Vodka Ltd v NE10 Vodka Ltd & Anor [2022] EWHC 2371 (Ch) (21 September 2022) (bailii.org) Article written by Alona Andrieieva, qualified Ukrainian...

BackgroundAnna Pasternak ("Pasternak") is the Claimant and author of Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago ("Lara"). Lara is a non-fiction, historical book that was published in...

Monster Energy appealed a decision refusing Monster's application to register the mark ‘Red Dawg' .At the original hearing Red Bull had opposed registration of the mark and had made out a successful...

Charlotte May KC recently handed down a comparatively rare judgment, for the Patents Court, in respect of a damages enquiry for infringement of Geofabrics' railway related patent by Fiberweb in...

On 22 September 2022, the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published Enhanced Guidance on Examining Patent Applications Relating to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inventions (referred...

Powering KipchogeMost people interested in sports will be aware of Project 1.59 – Eluid Kipchoge's 2019 first sub-2 hour marathon. Technology played a significant part; he had an arrow-shaped...

In the recent strike out application heard on 28 July 2022, Waterrower (UK) Limited v Liking Limited (T/A Topiom) [2022] EWHC 2084 (IPEC), David Stone, sitting as deputy high court judge, considered...

As patent attorneys practicing in the healthcare sector, we are encountering more and more inventions which straddle the life and computer science fields.

Recent EPO decision T3000/19 casts doubt on how (and practically, whether) audio/video prior art available on the internet should be cited at the EPO.

BackgroundOn 28 June 2022, the UK Government published its updated conclusions to the consultation it launched in October 2021 which looked at how patents and copyright, which respectively are...