UPC アップデート

2023年2月20日

The Unified Patent Court will start on June 1, 2023

Years of planning finally become reality: The official starting signal has now been given! Germany ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC) on February 17, 2023.

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2023年2月9日

Start of the Sunrise Period for Filing Opt-out Requests with the Unified Patent Court on March 1, 2023

According to the current schedule, the Unified Patent Court will start its work on June 1, 2023. The so-called sunrise period, during which opt-out requests can be filed with the Unified Patent Court for granted European patents or published European patent applications will start on March 1, 2023, according to the current planning of the Unified Patent Court.

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2025年10月23日

IAM グローバルリーダーズ 2026

当社の経営パートナーであるドロテア・ホーファー博士とユルゲン・フェルトマイヤー氏が、IAMグローバルリーダーズ2026に選ばれました！

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2025年9月25日

Germany’s Best Law Firms 2025

Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers have honored “Germany’s Best Law Firms 2025” and we are very pleased to have been mentioned here again. This award is based on client feedback and colleague votes, so we would like to express our sincere thanks to all our colleagues and clients who recommended us in such large numbers.

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2025年7月10日

G1/24: New course set by the EPO on claim interpretation – harmonization with EPC and national courts

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2025年6月17日

Germany’s Best Lawyers 2025

Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers have honored “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2025” and we are very pleased to have been mentioned here again. This award is based on surveys of commercial lawyers, so we would like to thank all our colleagues who have recommended us so highly.

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2025年6月3日

Prüfer & Partner recognized in IAM Patent 1000 2025 for Patent Prosecution and Nullity

We are pleased to share that our firm Prüfer & Partner together with four of our intellectual property attorneys have been recognized for their outstanding work in patent prosecution and nullity in the newly published 2025 Edition of iam Patent 1000, one of the world’s leading rankings with regard to patent services providers. We are very proud and honored that our next generation managing partners Dr. Susanne Sonnenhauser and Dr. Christian Gärtner were also listed for the first time.

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2025年5月27日

Dr Peter Klein has obtained the European Patent Litigation Certificate

We are delighted to announce that our partner Dr.Peter Klein has obtained the European Patent Litigation Certificate issued by the University of Maastricht in cooperation with the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier. This includes an extensive practical and theoretical training in the law underlying the Unified Patent Court (#UPC) and related fields of European law so that he is well prepared for representing clients in all proceedings before the Unified Patent Court.

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2024年6月5日

UPファミリーが成長を開始！ルーマニアがUPCに加盟

2024年9月1日にルーマニアはUPCの18番目の加盟国となります。統一特許裁判所に関する協定（UPCA）の批准が2024年5月31日に署名されました

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2024年5月8日

Comment on UPC Court Decision of May 6, 2024

Before the Paris Local Division, in a case where the defendant had forced an intervener into the proceedings pursuant to Rule 316A RoP (forced intervention), the intervener has obtained a period of one month for filing its Application to Intervene as well as for filing its Statement in Intervention. Contrary to Rule 316.2 RoP, which mentions a “further period” for filing the Statement in Intervention, the Court did not set any such further period.

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2024年4月15日

PRÜFER & PARTNER is ranked again in “The Legal 500” Germany and EMEA 2024

PRÜFER & PARTNER is ranked again in “The Legal 500” Germany and EMEA 2024.

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2024年3月19日

UPCから見たクレーム解釈、事実の開示と立証の責任 – UPC_CoA_335/2023

UPCの最初の判決が下された。クレーム解釈、事実の開示と立証の責任、さらに進歩性の検討など、多くの議論がなされている問題に関するUPCの立場を知ることは、エキサイティングなことである。

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