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Philips wins UPC sleep-therapy patent dispute; ABM plans appeal

By Inbar Preiss ( March 4, 2026, 11:57 GMT | Insight) -- The Unified Patent Court has revoked Advanced Brain Monitoring’s sleep-therapy patent in counterclaim proceedings brought by Philips, clearing its NightBalance device of infringement in three countries. ABM plans to appeal. The UPC’s ruling, in spite of a prior ruling by the European Patent Office in ABM’s favor, found that earlier Japanese technology had anticipated the claimed invention.Philips has defeated a patent infringement suit at the Unified Patent Court after judges in The Hague revoked the patent asserted against its NightBalance sleep-positioning device, clearing the company of liability across Germany, France and The Netherlands....

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