IP Quick Tip: The Practical Relevance Of Preliminary Injunctions At The UPC (Podcast)

Today, I am going to talk about the practical relevance of preliminary injunctions (PIs) for patent infringement at the UPC.

The respective national case law is all but uniform. In Dutch patent litigation, for example, PIs are very relevant. In contrast, they hardly ever play a role in the UK. In France, their importance has been increasing recently but is still far from day-to-day practice. In Germany, the landscape varies; different instance courts have different practices: while the courts in Düsseldorf and Mannheim are quite reluctant to grant PIs for patent infringement, the courts in Munich and Hamburg generously grant PIs in many cases, not just in the pharma sector but in many other sectors as well.