Market-dominant and powerful companies in Germany are subject to a number of rules that are significantly broader and stricter than the European Union's, Article 102 AEUV, which prohibits the abuse of a dominant position.

Germany will have a new ADA in the first half of the year 2005. Initiated by several EU directives, the German Government has recently presented the draft for a new ADA for discussion in the House of German Parliament (<I>Deutscher Bundestag</I>).

If an appeal is lodged under R.220.2 RoP and leave is granted in the impugned order itself, the statement of appeal must be lodged within 15 days of service...

The UPC must interpret its own substantive and procedural law in accordance with EU law and, in the rare cases where such interpretation is not possible...

R.360 RoP applies not only when the action itself has become devoid of purpose, but also when the appeal has become devoid of purpose. According to R.360 RoP the Court may at any time, on the application.

The appellants’ representative understood French but lacked sufficient oral proficiency for optimal representation. The Court permitted both parties to plead in English at the hearing of 26 May 2026, while French remained the language of proceedings.

A law firm may also be a member of the public within the meaning of R. 262.1 (b) RoP, see already order of 9 January 2024, UPC_CoA_480, UPC_CoA_481/2024, Abbott v Powel Gilbert.

Under Art. 68(1) UPCA, the Court shall, at the request of the injured party, order the infringer who knowingly, or with reasonable grounds to know, engaged in a patent infringing activity, to pay the injured party damages...

All applicants of any application or action under the UPCA and RoP are required to be represented, except if the RoP waive the requirement of representation.

The cost decision after the withdrawal of an action (or a request for provisional measures) is made in accordance with the general regulations in Rules 150 et seqq. RoP.

The Court of Appeal denied the request to waive the order to pay the regular court fee plus an additional fee of 50 % of the regular fee.

A separation of proceedings according to R. 302.1 RoP is sensible and appropriate when dealing with a plurality of patents.

The President applied the Court of Appeal’s multi-factor framework, considering case-related circumstances (predominant language in the technology field...

The date of the withdrawal declaration alone determines which version of Rule 370.9 RoP applies — and therefore the entitlement to a fee refund. When the action originally commenced does not matter.

Now that final decisions from the Court of First Instance are coming in, the Court of Appeal also naturally saw a 100% increase in appeals under R. 220 (1) lit. a) RoP.

In sum, there are only 6 Local Divisions which attracted more than 10 cases (Munich, Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Hamburg, Paris and The Hague).

Christmas and the New Year are just around the corner, which seems to result in a UPC "crunch time": The rate of new cases per month is steadily increasing since summer, seeing the biggest jump for

The Fourth Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has reversed the refusal of Haribo's figurative trade mark consisting of an image of its 'Goldbear' gummy...

The CoA dismissed Claimant Aarke's appeal, in particular because Aarke failed to provide sufficient evidence in relation to the application of the applicable law by the courts in Israel.

The fact that the parties are domiciled in countries where the language of the proceedings chosen by the claimant is an official language is an important factor...