Willem Hoyng's UPC Unfiltered (AI) Podcast

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a broad set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a focus on Arrow declarations, SEP and FRAND litigation, preliminary opinions, patent validity, claim construction, late-filed evidence, and the practical consequences of UPC case management.In this episode, we cover:⚖️ Arrow Declarations, Divisional Patents & Legal Certainty: A significant decision in Sandoz v Novo Nordisk addresses the UPC’s competence to entertain Arrow declarations, the potential abuse of divisional patent strategies, and the protection of legal certainty against future patent claims.📡 SEP Litigation, FRAND & Preliminary Opinions: Key decisions examine implementer willingness, FRAND defences, the risk of SEP injunctions, patent invalidity in SEP disputes, and the increasingly important role of preliminary opinions and active case management in preparing oral hearings.🔍 Claim Construction, Late Evidence & Patent Validity: The week highlights important Court of Appeal guidance on admitting previously rejected evidence, novelty based on reverse-engineering known products, dependent claims, inventive step, infringement by equivalence, and cost recovery in conditional revocation proceedings.📖 Read the full written analysis here: ⁠HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER: UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC decisions week 43, 2026🔍 Explore the case law and Unfiltered Commentary on our UPC Intelligence Platform: https://upcintelligence.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/Disclaimer: This post and the podcast are AI-generated. The commentary reflects Prof. Willem Hoyng’s personal views.

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a broad set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a strong focus on missed procedural deadlines, appeal strategy, evidentiary seizures, confidentiality, patent amendments, cross-border enforcement, and the practical consequences of UPC litigation.In this episode, we cover:⏱️ Deadlines, appeals & late patent amendments: key decisions highlight refused extensions, missed filing and payment deadlines, failed requests for reinstatement, and the importance of coordinating auxiliary requests between EPO and UPC proceedings.🔍 Evidentiary seizures, confidentiality & review: several cases examine access to seized evidence, confidentiality of expert reports and the distinction between reviewing a seizure order and challenging disclosure of its results.⚖️ Cross-Border enforcement, validity & infringement: the week addresses service on foreign defendants, bifurcation and parallel national proceedings, conditions attached to UK injunctions, claim interpretation, inventive step, and the need for timely proof of infringement outside UPC territory.📖 Read the full written analysis here: HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER: UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC decisions week 42, 2026🔍 Explore the case law and Unfiltered Commentary on our UPC Intelligence Platform: https://upcintelligence.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/Disclaimer: This post and the podcast are AI-generated. The commentary reflects Prof. Willem Hoyng’s personal views.

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a focused set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a strong focus on service, appeal fees, language of proceedings, electronic signatures, claim construction, infringement evidence, appeal deadlines, and second medical use validity.In this episode, we cover:📄 Service, Settlements & Court Fees: Several decisions address alternative service, appeal-fee reimbursement, settlement withdrawals, return of court fees, and the practical consequences of how proceedings are formally closed.⚖️ Appeals, Language & Procedural Formalities: The week highlights interim conferences in appeal, language-change appeals, signing requirements, re-establishment of rights and R. 190 appeal deadlines.💊 Claim Construction, Infringement & Second Medical Use: Key decisions examine added matter, homogeneous mixing in infringement analysis, the role of pointers and motivation, second medical use claims, sufficiency, and obviousness attacks.📖 Read the full written analysis here: ⁠HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER: UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC decisions week 41, 2026🔍 Explore the case law and Unfiltered Commentary on our UPC Intelligence Platform: ⁠https://upcintelligence.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/ ⁠Disclaimer: This post and the podcast are AI-generated. The commentary reflects Prof. Willem Hoyng’s personal views.

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a focused set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a focus on conditional counterclaims, appeal strategy, reinstatement, late evidence, interim conferences, litigation value, settlement pressure, access to pleadings, and stays pending parallel revocation proceedings.In this episode, we cover:🔁 Conditional Counterclaims & Appeal Timing: Key Court of Appeal decisions clarify how defendants must protect conditional counterclaims for revocation on appeal, including reinstatement requests after earlier uncertainty in the case law.⚖️ Late Evidence, Interim Conferences & Procedure: Several decisions address late-filed material, appeal case management, interim conference discipline and the need for concise, timely procedural requests.⏸️ Stays, Settlements & Parallel Revocation Strategy: The week also highlights settlement after written proceedings, litigation value in appeal, access-request language issues, mediation, submarine-patent settlement pressure, and refusal to stay appeal proceedings merely because a third party has started a parallel revocation action.📖 Read the full written analysis here: ⁠HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER: UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC decisions week 40, 2026🔍 Explore the case law and Unfiltered Commentary on our UPC Intelligence Platform: ⁠https://upcintelligence.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/ ⁠Disclaimer: This post and the podcast are AI-generated. The commentary reflects Prof. Willem Hoyng’s personal views.

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a focused set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a strong focus on settlement practice, court-fee reimbursement, declarations of non-infringement, opt-out timing, high-value litigation and evidence requests.In this episode, we cover:🤝 Settlements, Fees & Litigation Value: Several Meta-related cases address withdrawals after settlement, 50% court-fee reimbursement, short settlement stays, and questions around the value of infringement and counterclaim proceedings.⚖️ DNI Actions & Opt-Out Timing: The week highlights important Court of Appeal guidance on declarations of non-infringement filed before grant, competence based on the Statement of Claim and opt-outs filed too late.📄Validity, Case Management & Entitlement Evidence: Key decisions examine interim conference preparation, claim interpretation, aggregation of features, the notional skilled person, and R. 190 requirements for entitlement evidence.📖 Read the full written analysis here: ⁠HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER: UPC Unfiltered, by Willem Hoyng – UPC decisions week 39, 2026🔍 Explore the case law and Unfiltered Commentary on our UPC Intelligence Platform: ⁠https://upcintelligence.hoyngrokhmonegier.com/ ⁠Disclaimer: This post and the podcast are AI-generated. The commentary reflects Prof. Willem Hoyng’s personal views.