Top ten most-read UPC articles

With the Unified Patent Court just days away from launch, JUVE Patent has rounded up the top ten most-read articles concerning the pan-European court published on the site since 2018.

While UPC topics have ranged from Brexit, to various ratifications, to jurisdictional debates, to doubts around whether the court would come into being at all, two topics above all piqued the readers’ interest: its judges, and consequences of the German constitutional complaint.

The Administrative Committee finally publishing its final list of judicial candidates in October 2022 garnered the highest number of readers, while JUVE Patent’s audience also looked favourably upon French and German judges in a survey carried out a year prior. Aside from the UK’s surprise announcement that it would no longer participate in the court, the list is also dominated by the impact of various constitutional complaints.

All’s well that ends well, however: the number ten most-read article details how the German Constitutional Court rejected two applications for an interim injunction against the German UPC laws.

These are the top ten most-read Unified Patent Court articles by JUVE Patent readers (5 December 2018 until 26 May 2023):

1. UPC Administrative Committee publishes final judges list (October 2022)

2. UPC favourites: French and German judges dominate (November 2021)

3. German UPC legislation challenged again by constitutional complaints (December 2020)

4. German ratification of Unified Patent Court on hold (January 2021)

5. What now for UPC? Dismay as UK government rejects participation (February 2020)

6. German Constitutional Court upholds UPC complaint (March 2020)

7. German government perseveres with Unified Patent Court ratification (June 2020)

8. UPC divisions demonstrate clout with choice of experienced legal judges (October 2022)

9. UPC judges announcement edges ever closer (June 2022)

10. Latest German ruling paves way for Unified Patent Court (July 2021)