FFII: In PL Holdings, European Court of Justice Confirms EU Law Cannot be Outsourced to International Courts Like Unified Patent Court (UPC)

By Benjamin HENRION, originally posted February 15, 2022

UPC: Jurisdiction And

Once the Unified Patent Court (UPC) comes into effect, and after the transitional period of 7 years (at least), the court system will have exclusive jurisdiction over UPs and...

UPC: Costs And Fees - Intellectual Property - European Union

Following a lengthy consultation, the Preparatory Committee for the Unified Patent Court (UPC) published its Rules on Court fees and recoverable costs

Progress for the realisation of the Unified Patent Court

Q&A: Unitary Patent And Unitary Patent Court - Intellectual Property - European Union

The majority of EU Member States have agreed to establish unitary patents (UPs), being single patents whose territorial scope will extend to all participating countries, and a Unified Patent Court (UPC)...

Abandoning the EPC in Order to Promote Corporations-Led EPO With Kangaroo Courts (UPC) is Simply Illegal

The EPO has gone off the rails and nobody wants to stop that train, certainly not the member states (MSs) which enabled the abolition of the European Patent Convention (EPC)

Unified Patent Court (UPC) Leak Shows That 'Team UPC' and the EPO's Management Are Knowingly Breaking the Law

Putting aside low-quality, easy-to-refute/debunk and very traditional EPO disinformation (self-congratulatory and self-serving false headlines, followed by mindless drivel in large quantities), the reality of the matter is that due to Brexit UPC...

Why the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Cannot Enter Into Force, Based on the UPC Agreement Itself

Carefully examining, based on or right from the worse’s own mouth, why UPC cannot proceed; those who try to proceed in violation of the law (and against the Vienna Convention, never mind constitutional violations and doctored 'studies') are only...

Sunday Surprises

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

The curious case of xenobots part 1 – Patenting of living machines

Since the 1970s when genetically-engineered bacterium capable of breaking down crude oil was held to be patentable subject-matter, much attention has been paid to the patenting of living inventions.

This Did Not Age Well: UPC to Start... 5 Years Ago

“The system is going to go live probably early 2015, but companies need to prepare [read: pay me] right now,” says Wouter Pors (Bird & Bird, an aggressive/thug firm) about the dead UP/UPC, which he participated in crafting and lobbying for (an...

UK: Patents Court is running swifter than ever

Tristan Sherliker of Bird & Bird explains how growing efficiency means that patent cases are taking less time to get to trial in the UK

Latest news and updates on the Unified Patent Court - JUVE Patent

The Unified Patent Court is back on the agenda, and the market expects that preparation work will soon begin. Here, JUVE Patent brings you the latest news on this crucial next phase of the UPC.

Shuffling the EPO Deck to Cover Up Crimes, EPC Violations, Attacks on Judges Etc. While Promoting Illegal and Unconstitutional UPC

EPO restructuring to look more like a private corporation isn't unprecedented; but unlike a private corporation it has a total monopoly (granting authority status is a monopoly for Europe) and even diplomatic immunity, so what we deal with here is...

[Meme] UPC: Many Lies as Headlines, Almost Exclusively in Publishers Sponsored by EPO and Team UPC to Produce Fake News (Lobbying Through Misinformation)

Lest we forget that EPO dictators, like Pinky and the Brainless Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos, have long littered the EPO's official Web site as well as publishers not directly connected to the EPO (but funded by it) with disinformation...

[Meme] UPC: Many Lies as Headlines, Almost Exclusively in Publishers Sponsored by EPO and Team UPC to Produce Fake News (Lobbying Through Misinformation)

Lest we forget that EPO dictators, like Pinky and the Brainless Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos, have long littered the EPO's official Web site as well as publishers not directly connected to the EPO (but funded by it) with disinformation...

[Meme] Team UPC Congratulating Itself

The barrage of fake news and misinformation about the UPC deliberately leaves out all the obvious and very important facts; even the EPO‘s António Campinos and Breton (Benoît Battistelli‘s buddy) participated in the lying

Balmain x Barbie - Not Just Your Traditional Collaboration - Intellectual Property - UK

Barbie and Balmain recently launched a new 50 piece ready-to-wear collection. This is not the first time that Barbie has collaborated with a fashion brand...