Court System

• Proceeding Type
• Divisions
• Judges
  • Panel Composition
  • Technically Qualified Judge
    • Allocation of a TQJ
    • Areas of Expertise
• Stages of Proceedings
• Submissions
• Outcome
  • Infringement +/-
  • Validity +/-
  • Application + / -
  • Damages
  • Request + / - (granted / rejected)
• Request to amend the patent
• Permissions of the court
• EPO
  • Accelerated opposition proceedings
    • Rapid decision
  • Parallel EPO proceedings

Laws

• UPC-A
• UPC-RoP

Procedural Law

• Appeal
  • Leave to Appeal
• Opt-Out
• Carve-Out
• Amendment of Complaint
• Bifurcation
• Burden of Proof
• Competence of the Court
• Confidentiality
  • Confidentiality Club
  • Trade Secrets
  • Protection of confidential information
  • Public Access to the Register
    • Application to access documents
• Court Measures
• Costs & Fees
• Deadlines
  • Deadline extension / time extension / extension of a time limit
  • Application for extension of deadlines
  • Deadlines for Submissions
    • Deadline for the Statement of Defense
    • Deadline for the Reply in case of parallel RoP.262A Application
• Degree of Certainty
• Enforcement
  • Coercive Measures
• Evidence
  • Preservation of Evidence
  • Inspection
    • Application for an order for inspection
    • Inspection of Premises
    • Order issued ex parte
• Intervention
  • Application to intervene
    • Admissibility +/-
• Inspection
  • Saisie
    • starting point for 30 days after the execution of the measures
• Jurisdiction
  • Lis pendens
    • Related Actions
  • Standstill Agreement
• Language of Proceedings
  • Change of language of proceedings
• Multiple
  • Multiple Applications
  • Multiple Parties
    • Multiple Applicants
    • Multiple Claimants
  • Multiple Patents
  • Multiple Proceedings
    • Separation of proceedings
    • Joint Proceedings
• No need to adjudicate
• Representation
• Request to amend the patent
  • Unchallenged Claims
• Security for legal costs / Security for costs
  • Application for …
• Service
  • Alternative means of service
    • Service of pleadings by means of electronic communication
  • Service without exhibits
  • Hague Convention
• Stay of Proceedings
  • Stay of Revocation proceedings pending opposition proceedings
• Application for provisional measures
  • Urgency
    • Unreasonable delay
    • Knowledge of infringement
    • Right to bring an action
    • Negligent ignorance
    • Weigh-up of interests
    • presumption
• Positive order on preliminary objection
• Judge-Rapporteur
• Translation
  • Translations of Exhibits
  • Simultaneous translation

Material Law

• Validity
  • Person skilled in the Art
  • Novelty +/-
  • Inventive Step +/-
• License
• Claim Construction

CMS

• Access
• Filing
  • Exhibits
  • Filing in Paper
  • Confidentiality
• Legal Team
• Problems
  • Workflows
  • Unübersichtlichkeit