Strategic Use of the English Patents Court in a Unified Patent Court System - The Current Position

Introduction

The Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) opened its doors for business on 1 June 2023, a date which also marked the start of the Unitary Patent. But the UK jurisdiction is not participating in either.

Where does this leave English patent litigation, given the comparative size of the market covered by the UPC?

As the second largest economy in Europe, and one of the three most designated countries for the grant of European patents, the English jurisdiction is likely to become even more important in European patent litigation than it is now, both directly and indirectly.

This webinar will cover the general and specific features of the English system that can potentially interact with and influence the procedures of the UPC.

These hold the potential to make the English jurisdiction a gateway to an overall European strategy.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Features of English patent litigation that make it an ideal testing jurisdiction
• Features of the UPC that make English decisions potentially influential
• The indirect deployment of English decisions in UPC preliminary injunction decisions and in preventing an injunction gap
• The direct use of English procedures in cross-border declarations of non-infringement
• Are there other potential uses of English procedures to impact upon or complement the UPC?

This webinar was recorded on 9th June 2022