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Year in review 2025

JUVE Patent’s Ones to Watch 2025 – the full overview

JUVE Patent identified nine up-and-coming talents 2025. Sie kommen aus deutschen und UK patent firms. Two of this year's Ones to Watch work in the mos ...

23 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

People & Business

Taylor Wessing, Winston & Strawn, merger

Preparation for US merger

Taylor Wessing's patent practice faces troubled waters

Taylor Wessing UK plans to merge with US law firm Winston & Strawn next year. Both firms have strong IP practices, but questions remain over the f ...

22 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Netflix, Broadcom, Quinn Emanuel, Hoyng ROKH

Standard essential patents

Hoyng ROKH and Quinn Emanuel secure double win for Netflix against Broadcom

Christmas has come early for Netflix. The German Federal Court of Justice has invalidated Broadcom's key EP 366, while the District Court The Hague re ...

19 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Excavators

Bobcat challenges competitors Caterpillar and Zeppelin with Quinn Emanuel

The US manufacturer of compact excavators has launched a major attack against its fiercest rival. Bobcat has sued Caterpillar in the US, at the UPC lo ...

17 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Sponsored Content Damages in the Unified Patent Court: Jurisdiction, Procedure, and Future Directions

The Unified Patent Court and Damages: Broad Powers, Procedural Flexibility, and the Road Ahead

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is developing a reputation as an injunction-centric forum, but its broad powers and procedural flexibility for awarding ...

17 December 2025 by Simmons + Simmons LLP

Cases

Second medical use

Generics succeed against Sanofi over cancer drug cabazitaxel

Several generic drug companies scored a win at the UPC against Sanofi's second medical use patent for cabazitaxel. In a decision issued today, the loc ...

12 December 2025 by Konstanze Richter

People & Business

Preparation for US merger

British Taylor Wessing to leave the Schweizer Verein association

Taylor Wessing UK is leaving the Schweizer Verein, the association that connects the firm with its German and Austrian partner firms. Multiple indepen ...

12 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

People & Business

UPC Award, Arnold Ruess, UPC Firm of the Year 2026

JUVE Patent Award 2026

Arnold Ruess takes trophy for UPC Firm of the Year

Arnold Ruess has been named JUVE Patent's UPC Firm of the Year 2026, following its success in filing innovative claims at the European court and devel ...

11 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Cancer drug

Halozyme and Quinn Emanuel secure PI against MSD over Keytruda SC

Merck Sharp & Dohme cannot launch Keytruda SC in Germany following a preliminary injunction issued by Munich Regional Court. Halozyme has thus pre ...

8 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

People & Business

Hoffmann Eitle, Jonas Smeets, Bird & Bird

Germany

Hoffmann Eitle continues expansion of litigation practice with Bird & Bird counsel

Bird & Bird counsel Jonas Smeets is set to join Hoffmann Eitle, bolstering the firm's litigation practice which is currently undergoing a reorgani ...

5 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

Cases

Roche, Menarini, CGM, glucose monitoring

Glucose-monitoring devices

Hoffmann-La Roche lands PI against Menarini Diagnostics from UPC

Today, the local division Düsseldorf issued a preliminary injunction in proceedings between Hoffmann-La Roche and Menarini over CGM devices. Various p ...

5 December 2025 by Konstanze Richter

Sponsored Content Inventive Step and Claim Interpretation in Pharmaceutical Patents: UPC and EPO Approaches

Divergent Approaches, Consistent Outcomes: UPC and EPO Tackle Inventive Step in Amgen’s Patent Case

The Amgen v Sanofi and Regeneron dispute marks the first central revocation case before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), with the Court of Appeal rever ...

4 December 2025 by Simmons + Simmons LLP

Cases

Consumer goods

EPO finally revokes Stada sunscreen patent in battle with German drugstores

The argument of plausibility plays a crucial role in the latest decision of the EPO's Technical Board of Appeal. Stada has lost a patent for the use o ...

4 December 2025 by Christina Schulze

Cases

Kettenbach, employee invention, compensation

Employee inventions

Frankfurt higher court ruling favours employers on inventor compensation

In Germany, the Employee Inventions Act governs the rights and obligations of employees and employers regarding inventions created during employment. ...

1 December 2025 by Mathieu Klos

People & Business

Germany

Heuking grows partner ranks with patent attorney

German midsized law firm Heuking continues to expand its mixed patent practice. The firm has bolstered its ranks with a patent attorney specialising i ...

28 November 2025 by Christina Schulze

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