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LESI Dispute Resolution Committee "UPC: Preliminary Injunctions and Seizures"

The LESI Dispute Resolution Committee invite you to attend the final session of their UPC webinar series on Tuesday, 18 April at 1:00pm - 2:30pm CET.

Speakers:

  • Peter Blok, UPC Appeal Court Judge (NL)
  • Sam Granata, UPC Judge, Local Division Brussels (BE)
  • James Horgan, assistant managing counsel MSD (UK)
  • Arno Riße, patent lawyer at Arnold-Ruess (DE)
  • Thomas Adocker, patent lawyer at Taylor Wessing (Austria)

Moderator: Marleen van den Horst, patent lawyer at LGGA (NL)

Topics:

  1. PI proceedings (inter partes / ex parte)
    • When and where to start? - urgency/proportionaiity
    • Cross border PI – only for UPC contracting MS,or also for non UPC, EU MS and/or other EPO countries ?
    • Protective letter/writ – where to file, publicly accessible, known to patentee, level of detail?
    • Defence of invalidity also assessed?
    • When PI granted, proceedings on the merits need to follow. When, where, counterclaim for invalidity?
    • When PI granted, but later patent invalidated/revoked, defendant entitled to damages? CJEU Bayer vs. Richter
  2. Seizures
    • How/where to start?
    • Requirements for seizure/inspection of premises and access to property/evidence seized? National law/courts?
    • Proceedings (PI or on the merits) following the seizure
    • Protection of trade secrets/confidentiality related to seized information
  3. Revocation/invalidity proceedings EPC / UPC:in parallel? How will they interact? Strategic (dis)advantages to start both? Timing?

This event is free to participants.

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