08 May, 2024 UPC not affected by parallel actions filed before 1 June 2023 By Paul England During the UPC's seven year transitional period, which began on 1 June 2023, a choice of forum is provided between the UPC and the...
25 Apr, 2024 UK biotech goes stateside: supporting One Nucleus' Boston Bootcamp 2024 By Adrian Toutoungi The week of the Great One Nucleus Boston Bootcamp has finally arrived! Very excited to be in Boston with Ross McNaughton, Sarah Cole,...
19 Apr, 2024 UPC shifts towards English as the lingua franca By Paul England In a significant judgment, the UPC Court of Appeal in Curio Bioscience v 10x Genomics*, has made a decision that is likely to shift the...
15 Mar, 2024 Time to tinker? The UK Patent Box By Graham Samuel-Gibbon The UK Spring Budget 2024 built upon the commitment made by the government in its Life Sciences Vision to establish the UK as a leading...
20 Feb, 2024 UPC bifurcation: the dog that didn't bark? By Paul England One of the prevailing questions – and concerns – during the many years of preparation of the Unified Patent Court used to be whether...
31 Jan, 2024 Flexible but brief? Expert evidence in the UPC By Paul England One of the unusual features of the Unified Patent Court is the way its procedures combine aspects of Europe’s civil and common law...
26 Jan, 2024 Record EUTM licences or risk loss of rights By Louise Popple There are good reasons for recording a licence of an EUTM at the EUIPO. Absent recordal, those who acquire rights in an EUTM without...
06 Dec, 2023 UPC on staying parallel actions with the EPO By Paul England Like many national European courts, the Unified Patent Court allows for patent revocation proceedings to run in parallel to opposition...
24 Nov, 2023 The straw man lives on in the UPC By Paul England The Paris seat of the UPC Central Division has confirmed a question of strategic importance to parties seeking patent revocation: the...
21 Nov, 2023 Don’t ask for a UPC technical judge too soon By Paul England The UPC Rules of Procedure do not provide prescriptive directions for every possible eventuality in the court. Space is instead left for...
10 Nov, 2023 Guidance on UPC confidentiality clubs By Paul England How do parties to litigation in the UPC protect their confidential information? A number of decisions have now come from the UPC...
01 Nov, 2023 UPC invokes Brexit in costs decision, but did it really matter? By Paul England Harvard College has been awarded security for costs in the sum of EUR 300,000 in revocation proceedings brought against it by NanoString...