In an order dated 28 February 2025, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) rejected Esko-Graphics' request for leave to amend its infringement claim to include the Netherlands.

In a recent decision by the Local Division Munich of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the Court issued an Order addressing the submission of physical evidence in a patent dispute involving Collomix GmbH and Lidl entities.

On 26 December, the Paris seat of the Central Division handed down their final decision in the revocation action brought by Advanced Bionics against MED-EL Elektromedizinische's patent EP4074373.

The Court of Appeal has weighed in on a dispute between Daedalus Prime and Xiaomi Technology regarding access to confidentiality clubs in UPC proceedings...

In its decision of 3 October 2025, the UPC Court of Appeal clarified the application of Article 64 UPCA, which governs corrective measures such as recall, removal, and destruction of infringing products.

Proceedings for provisional measures at the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court have recently come to a conclusion in the case of Biolitec Holding GmbH & Co. KG...

The interim conference of the revocation action between TCL Europe and Corning Inc. (UPC_CFI_337/2025) was held on 28 November 2025.

On 6 May 2025, Genentech and Roche petitioned the Brussels Local Division for ex-parte orders for inspection and the preservation of evidence against two pharmaceutical manufacturing...

The Hamburg Local Division clarified that the counterclaim for revocation may attack the validity of claims not asserted against the defendant, in a decision on the merits issued...

Two separate requests for the provisions of security for costs from a claimant domiciled in China has highlighted differing approaches of two UPC local divisions.

As previously reported here, the UPC has, at first instance at least, confirmed a long held belief (often referred to as the UPC long arm jurisdiction) that UPC decisions can also have effect in non-UPC member states.

When considering if provisional measures are to be granted, the UPC considers, inter alia, if the patent in question is more like than not to be valid and is more like than not to be infringed.

In a recent procedural order issued by the Mannheim Local Division of the UPC (UPC_CFI_819/2024), the Court rejected an application made by three co-defendants requesting a separation of proceedings into three distinct strands of litigation...

In two recent decisions on interim measures, in disputes between Occlutech and Lepu before the Dusseldorf and Hamburg local divisions, defendants Lepu challenged the urgency with which Occlutech had brought their actions...

In an Order dated 16 January 2025, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) rejected NVIDIA's request to change the language of proceedings from German to English...

In a recent decision (UPC_CFI_526/2024), the Unified Patent Court's Central Division in Munich addressed the issue of excessive auxiliary requests in patent revocation proceedings.

Closely shadowing earlier events, on 22 September 2025 an order was issued by the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) permitting OTEC Präzisionsfinish GmbH (OTEC)...

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust has begun deploying artificial intelligence tools to analyse chest X-ray results for lung cancer diagnoses, with the UK government committing to roll out these AI-powered systems across all NHS trusts in England by 2029. The technology acts as a "second pair of eyes" for radiologists, prioritising X-rays showing potential danger signs for expedited human review.

Scotland's new Critical Technologies Supercluster, a collaboration among Technology Scotland, the Scottish Government, key universities, and Scottish Enterprise, aims to accelerate economic growth by leveraging strengths in photonics, quantum, semiconductors, connectivity, and sensing, targeting a £10bn industry impact.

Since the publication of Jim O'Neill's 2016 report on AMR, several recommendations have seen partial implementation, while others still require attention...