In a November 12, 2024, decision, the CoA of the UPC holds that, under certain circumstances, a European patent can be asserted before the UPC even if it has been opted out and is or had been the subject of legal proceedings before a national court. This is considered one of the most important decisions of the UPC so far and may have profound practical implications for both patentees and third parties. In order [...]

Bringing the UPCA into force does not (yet) render obsolete national patent infringement proceedings based on European patents without unitary effect. In its judgment dated February 14, 2024 (docket no. 6 U 232/22), the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe – apart from making some interesting comments on the question of the extent to which an opposition decision is equivalent to the description of the patent – clarifies that such legal disputes will continue to be fought on secure [...]

While the relevant article regulating the transfer of authority to examine the requests for revocation of trademarks to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office ("the Office") was not yet entered into force and there were still a level of uncertainty concerning the procedure, the first development in this regard took place on October 23, 2023 when the Office published and opened the "Draft Regulation for Amendment of the Regulation on the Implementation of the [...]