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Trademark litigators lose interest in France, but not in Paris According to new statistics on European litigation revealed by Managing IP this week, trademark cases in France plummeted between 2015 and 2019. While the data, provided by Darts-IP, shows that the Paris High Court was the second most popular forum for trademark litigation in Europe after the Milan IP Court, France has seen a notable year-on-year decrease as a whole. The country saw a 20% drop from 2015 to 2016, a 29% decrease from 2016 to 2017, and a 33% fall from 2017 to 2018. Sources say the time it takes to get through IP case...

UPC faces new delay The fabled unitary patent and concurrent Unified Patent Court look set to be delayed again, at least in the short term, following a request from Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court to pause the final ratification step.  On Wednesday, January 13, the FCC asked Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier to refrain from signing the country’s ratification into law while it considers two new constitutional complaints challenging ratification that were filed with the court in December. The court will now decide whether to throw out the complaints as inadmissible or...

UPC delayed again by constitutional complaints 14-01-2021 05-03-2019 This latest halt to proceedings follows the filing of two constitutional complaints against the ratification of the UPC on December 18 last year, the same day the Bundesrat (German parliament) unanimously approved the bill that paved the way for ratification. Düsseldorf-based lawyer Ingve Stjerna filed one of the complaints against the proposed law, following the partial success of his first complaint filed in 2017, and the other has been filed by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. Stjerna’s first initi...

New UPC complaints filed in Germany Germany’s top constitutional court confirms it has received two complaints regarding the UPC Agreement December 22 2020 Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has confirmed it has received two complaints against the country’s Unified Patent Court legislation. In a statement sent to Managing IP, the court confirmed: “Regarding the Act on the Agreement of February 13 2013 on a Unified Patent Court, two constitutional complaints have been filed and are pending.” However, the statement added that a decision date was not known...