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Aug 19, 2026
In this jurisdictional decision, the Local Chamber Mannheim addresses the scope of its competence regarding online offerings and defendants located outside the European Union. The defendants were resident either in the…
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In this order, the Court of Appeal addresses the question of when a defendant implicitly accepts the international jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court. Merely accessing the case file before taking an active…
Read more →In this decision, the Mannheim Local Chamber examines the requirements for the international and local jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court, particularly when defendants are domiciled outside the European Union. The…
Read more →Jul 18, 2026
The Court of Appeal addresses the territorial limits of the international jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court regarding places of damage. Where the jurisdiction of the Unified Patent Court is established under…
Read more →Jul 6, 2026
For reasons of efficiency and in view of the urgency of an application for interim measures, R. 19.5 RoP shall apply mutatis mutandis to proceedings for provisional measures. A referral to the competent division is…
Read more →In this landmark request for a preliminary ruling, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court is dealing for the first time with fundamental questions concerning the jurisdiction and liability of authorised…
Read more →On 5 August 2024, the claimant filed an action for patent infringement against a total of 14 defendants. The notice of the publication of the grant of the patent was published on 14 August 2024. On the same day, 14…
Read more →The claimant requests that the defendant cease infringement not only in the territory of France, but also in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The claimant relies on official reports from the judicial…
Read more →Financial compensation for the use of the published EP application also falls within the jurisdiction of the UPC (Article 32(1)(f) UPCA). Since such compensation is not regulated in either the EPatVO or the UPCA, the…
Read more →Questions of fact and law that are relevant both for jurisdiction under the UPCA in relation to the national courts of the Member States and for the merits of the action are generally not to be decided in the procedure…
Read more →At the time the action was brought before the Munich Local Division, proceedings for the issuance of interim measures were pending between the same parties regarding the same patent before the Court of Appeal (the…
Read more →Article 33(1)(b) UPCA allows for suing several defendants at the domicile, principal place of business, or – if none exists – at the establishment of one of the defendants, provided that there is a business relationship…
Read more →According to the CJEU 25. 2. 2025, C-339/22, BSH Haushaltsgeräte, the UPC remains competent for infringement actions concerning patents in non-UPCA Member States even if the defendant disputes the validity of that…
Read more →Apr 24, 2025
The defendants argue that only the second defendant among the seven defendants performed acts in Germany, and therefore the Local Division Düsseldorf would lack competence with respect to the other defendants. However,…
Read more →Feb 4, 2025
Article 7(2), in conjunction with Article 71b(1) of the Brussels Ia Regulation, must be interpreted to mean that the Unified Patent Court has international competence over an infringement action if the European patent…
Read more →The Local Division The Hague partially granted an injunction. The applicant (in first instance) had argued that the patent was valid and in force in the Member States of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Germany,…
Read more →Article 33.4 Agreement on a Unified Patent Court: The requesting party and defendant in the main proceedings is requesting at the central division that the revocation action be rejected as inadmissible, since the…
Read more →Rule 17.3 of the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court: If the action involves a patent having more than one classification, the Registry assigns the action in accordance with Rule 345.3 Rules of Procedure to…
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