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Language of proceedings before the UPC
The decisions of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) apply equally in all participating member states and proper conduct of proceedings must be guaranteed. It...
Claim amendments and preclusion of pleadings brought in terms of the Counterclaim for revocation before the UPC
With its decision UPC_CFI_11/2024 of May 8, 2025, the Local Division Düsseldorf clarifies the possibility and the requirements to attack the validity of the...
Time-dependent course of infringement proceedings before the UPC of first instance
The proceedings before the UPC in the first instance should normally have taken place within one year.[1] For this reason, a strict time limit...
Who is an inventor – an AI-System?
The inventor is the person who is the author of the claimed invention, i.e. who has recognized the idea of the invention and developed...
Statement for Revocation or Counterclaim for Revocation?
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) offers two options for challenging the validity of a patent: on the one hand, a Statement for Revocation of...
Provisional measures at the Unified Patent Court
Provisional measures can be ordered by the Unified Patent Court (UPC) to prevent an imminent infringement of the patent or to prohibit the continuation...
Navigating AI Patents Under Art. 83 EPC: Lessons from EPO Decision T 1669/21 on Sufficient Disclosure and Blackbox AI Protection
In its recent decision T 1669/21, the EPO has provided clear guidance on the sufficiency of disclosure (Art. 83 EPC) for inventions in the...
Counterclaim for revocation before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
With the ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) and the subsequent start of work of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)...
Patentability of AI – Part 6: Can a training dataset be patentable?
Overview: Three different aspects in context of AI model training are patentable: Generating training data for use in training the AI model; a. Generating [...
Patentability of AI – Part 5: Image data vs. text data – Does the EPO have an (un)justified bias?
Overview: If the invention concerns core AI, emphasize in the patent application that image processing is a primary application, add text processing as secondary...