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UPC appoints five new legally qualified judges, each to a different division: van Peursem, first Lithuanian, second Austrian, two more Germans
Read more: UPC appoints five new legally qualified judges, each to a different division: van Peursem, first Lithuanian, second Austrian, two more GermansThe UPC’s five new legally qualified judges will join in early March. Dutch judge van Peursem is the most famous one of them in patent law circles.
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Aggressive enforcers NovaCloud and Nagravision (OpenTV) expand campaigns to UPC with new lawsuits against Amazon, Pinterest
Read more: Aggressive enforcers NovaCloud and Nagravision (OpenTV) expand campaigns to UPC with new lawsuits against Amazon, PinterestNovaCloud Licensing is suing large technology companies such as Microsoft and Meta over former Ericsson patents. Nagravision and OpenTV are affiliates and have sued numerous companies, among them Apple.and Netflix.
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Disney, Adeia settle global litigation, strike media patent licensing agreement
Read more: Disney, Adeia settle global litigation, strike media patent licensing agreementAdeia published a raised financial outlook for 2025 moments after it announced the signing of its new deal with Disney, which resolves all outstanding litigation between the companies in Germany, the Unified Patent Court, and the U.S.
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Novo Nordisk suffers another loss in efforts to extend key Ozempic patent in Brazil
Read more: Novo Nordisk suffers another loss in efforts to extend key Ozempic patent in BrazilBrazil’s Superior Tribunal de Justiça has issued its first-ever decision on patent term adjustment, ruling that Novo Nordisk’s request to extend its Ozempic-related patent is unconstitutional because a drugmaker’s rights to a patent term cannot override society’s rights to affordable medicine.
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UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA denies commercial docket data service access to pleadings; ex parte inspection order lifted; and more
Read more: UPC Roundup (1 week): CoA denies commercial docket data service access to pleadings; ex parte inspection order lifted; and moreThis is a summary of developments in and around the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in the week since our December 14, 2025 UPC Roundup. 7. UPC achievement lists launched by ip fray to recognize law firms that secure outcomes (link to detailed article) ip fray has launched a new set of achievement lists highlighting law firms…
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BREAKING: Within hours of Brazilian injunction, HEVC Advance lists Hisense as licensee
Read more: BREAKING: Within hours of Brazilian injunction, HEVC Advance lists Hisense as licenseeThe Brazilian court gave Hisense only 48 hours to comply. and a preliminary injunction based on a report by a court-appointed expert has teeth.
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Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZN
Read more: Brazilian PIs and bad-faith litigation sanctions hit Hisense; newly discovered European video lawsuits against Hisense, Disney, Rakuten, DAZNPreliminary injunctions, a fine for bad-faith litigation, multiple new video patent lawsuits in the Unified Patent Court and Munich I Regional Court: the heat is on.
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UPC revokes patents and throws out infringement actions in GXD v. Myriad, Centripetal v. Palo Alto
Read more: UPC revokes patents and throws out infringement actions in GXD v. Myriad, Centripetal v. Palo AltoIn two separate decisions issued today, the Unified Patent Court’s Munich LD and Mannheim LD have respectively revoked a patent asserted by South Korean non-practising entity, GXD-Bio, against rival Myriad, and by network security firm Centripetal against Palo Alto Networks.
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