.Concentrating patent litigation that involves parallel patents in a single national court would improve the enforcement of patent rights by … countries. However, any concentration of patent litigation is difficult because of the rule mandating that only courts in the … country where a patent was granted may adjudicate the validity of the patent. In the European Union, the 2006 judgment in GAT …

We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …

Healthy organisms inevitably produce cancer cells, and vibrant patent systems inevitably let bad patents slip through … technological practitioners. Postissuance patent review (PIPR) has emerged as an invaluable errorcorrecting mechanism to prevent the … Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). The UPCA enables a lowcost patent revocation action on a broad range of grounds and with a …

contemporaneously challenging the SEPs in suit.The CJEU, recognizing that the risks of patent-strategic behavior rest on both parties …

We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …

European Union (ECJ) has found that the EU centralized patent litigation system recently proposed by the Council of the …-awaited EU patent litigation scheme (as envisaged in the Draft Agreement on the European and Community Patents Court). This blow …