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.
Comparison of opposition proceedings at the EPO and revocation actions at the UPC – advantages and disadvantages
Since the introduction of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in June 2023, a new system for central attacking the validity of and thereby to nullify a European Patent has been introduced. If a European patent of concern is an EU Unitary Patent, or if a classically validated European patent was not opted out from the competence of the UPC, a central revocation action under the UPC now exists in parallel to an opposition before the European Patent Office (EPO). Therefore, the question arises: what are the pros and cons of challenging the validity either before the EPO or before the UPC? The present report provides some guidance and discusses the main advantages and disadvantages of each system – which eventually is a matter of strategic considerations whether and which advantage may prevail – be it costs, timing, speed of proceedings, and possibly other issues.
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Abolition of the 10-day notification fiction at the European Patent Office
In view of the digital age, in which documents will only be served electronically in the future, the European Patent Office will abolish its so-called 10-day fiction of service, which previously governed the calculation of time limits, as of November 1, 2023.
我们很荣幸的向您告知，我们的管理合伙人多Dorothea Hofer 博士获得了由马斯特里赫特大学（University of Maastricht）与特里尔欧洲法学院（the Academy of European Law 缩写ERA）合作颁发的欧洲专利诉讼证书。该证书包括统一专利法院（#UPC）基础法律和欧洲法律相关领域的广泛实践和理论培训，使她为在统一专利法院的所有诉讼中代表客户做好了充分准备。
