This week at the UPC: Oct. 30-Nov. 5
By Giorgi Dvalishvili and Inbar Preiss ( November 5, 2026, 16:20 GMT | Insight) -- This week, the Unified Patent Court refused to suspend Netflix’s injunction despite the European Patent Office’s subsequent revocation of the patent at issue. Hamburg departed from other divisions by requiring each party to bear its own costs of an undecided conditional revocation counterclaim. Düsseldorf dismissed Cilag’s surgical-stapler preliminary injunction applications for lack of urgency after unnecessary testing delayed their filing.Costs and procedural safeguards shaped this week’s Unified Patent Court decisions. The Hamburg Local Division's approach to undecided conditional revocation counterclaims differed from Munich’s allocation to the defendant, and Mannheim and Paris’s allocation to the claimant....
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