EPLAW PATENT BLOG

UPC – user guide published on how to create an account and how to authenticate to the CMS

Posted: February 14th, 2023

The Unified Patent Court announces the following: “The UPC IT team is pleased to share with you detailed information and specific user guide on how to create an account and how to authenticate to the CMS system starting from the first of March.” More information and de user guide can be found here.

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UPC – The Unified Patent Court provides update regarding the Case Management System API opt-out process

Posted: February 8th, 2023

The Unified Patent Court announces the following: “The Unified Patent Court announces that an optimized API opt-out process will be in place as of 1st of March, at the beginning of the Sunrise period. “This revised process for opt-out via API will be active starting from the 2nd Sunrise practice, which will start as of […]

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UPC – the Unified Patent Court invites external users to practice the CMS Sunrise functionalities

Posted: January 30th, 2023

The Unified Patent Court provides more information on the start of the 2nd Sunrise Practice Period from February 13 until February 24, 2023 The Unified Patent Court announces the following: “The Unified Patent Court invites external users to practice the CMS Sunrise functionalities starting from 13 February, for a period of 2 weeks, until 24 […]

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UPC – Document Repository: Trilingual (DE/EN/FR) booklet now available

Posted: January 10th, 2023

Past EPLAW President and Honorary member Pierre Véron announces that the 2023 version of his trilingual (DE/EN/FR) booklet (420 pages) comprising the Unitary Patent Regulations, the Unified Patent Court Agreement and the Rules of Procedure of the Unified Patent Court as adopted in July-August 2022 by the UPC’s Administrative Committee is now available. Two versions can […]

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UPC – Start of the UPC delayed to 1 June 2023

Posted: December 5th, 2022

A joint statement on the UPC website by Klaus Grabinski, President of the UPC Court of Appeal, and Johannes Karcher, Acting Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the UPC, announces the delay of the start of the UPC to 1 June 2023 From the statement: “The start of the Sunrise Period is postponed for two […]

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EPO – The Unified Patent Court explained

Posted: November 24th, 2022

The EPO announced that it has published a new trilogy of EPO webinars that outline the Unified Patent Court’s structure and procedures, as well as the timeline for its introduction. Recorded earlier this year in English, the webinars feature UPC experts Kevin Mooney, Klaus Grabinski and Pierre Véron. The webinars and lots of other information […]

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UPC – UJUB to hold fourth UPC Mock Trial in Paris – register here

Posted: November 15th, 2022

The UJUB (Union for the Unified Patent Court) will hold its 4th mock trial in Paris on Monday 21 November 2022 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm CET This 4th mock trial will take place in the International courtroom of the Paris Commercial Court (which will host the hearings of the Central Division of the […]

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UPC – Final consolidated rules of procedure

Posted: September 16th, 2022

As readers may have already seen, the final consolidated versions of the Rules of Procedure have now been published on the UPC Website in English, German and French They can be accessed here

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FR – French Supreme Court embraces crossborder injunctions

Posted: July 7th, 2022

French Supreme Court embraces crossborder injunctions, by Willem Hoyng, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER  In a decision of 29 June 2022 in a case between the French company Hutchinson which owns an EP patent (EP 340) in among others France, the UK and Germany and a UK company, a South African company and two French companies the […]

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