“Recent Case Law in German Patent Law 2025” has been published by Eisenführ Speiser. In this periodical our litigators report on notable decisions by the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the German patent jurisdiction. For the first time, the review also includes selected case law of the European Patent Office.
The following decisions are discussed:
- Intermediate Generalisation and Functional Claim Construction at the UPC
(UPC CoA, Order of 14 February 2025, UPC_CoA_382/2024 – Abbott v. Sibionics) - Inventive Step: The UPC’s Position and Standard
(UPC CoA, Decision of 25 November 2025, UPC_CoA_464/2024 & UPC_CoA_530/2024 – Edwards v. Meril) - Public access to UPC files upon conclusion of the proceedings
(UPC CoA, Decision of 9 January 2025, UPC_CoA_480/2024 & UPC_CoA_481/2024 – Abbott v. Sibionics) - Temporal Scope of UPC Competence and Withdrawal of an Opt-Out
(UPC CoA, Order of 2 June 2025, UPC_CoA_156/2025 – XSYS v. ESKO) - Security for costs before the UPC only to protect the defendant
(UPC CoA, Order of 20 June 2025, UPC_CoA_393/2025 – AorticLab v. Emboline) - Online Offering, Personal Liability, and Recall under the UPCA
(UPC CoA, Decision of 3 October 2025, UPC_CoA_534/2024 & UPC_CoA_683/2024 – Belkin v. Philips) - Interpretation of claim features in case of discrepancies between claims and description
(UPC CFI, Final Order of 30 April 2025, UPC_CFI_278/2023 – Agfa v. Gucci) - International Jurisdiction of the UPC over Non-EU Defendants
(UPC CFI, Final Order of 14 August 2025, UPC_CFI_387/2025 – Dyson v. Dreame et al.) - Imminent Patent Infringement before the UPC
(UPC CoA, Order of 13 August 2025, UPC_CoA_446/2025 & UPC_CoA_520/2025 – Boehringer Ingelheim v. Zentiva
UPC CFI, Final Order of 21 October 2025, UPC_CFI_553/2025 – Occlutech v. Lepu) - Claim Construction as a Matter of Law – The Skilled Person, Not the Expert
(UPC CoA, Order of 30 April 2025, UPC_CoA_768/2024 – Insulet v. EOFlow) - The UPC’s “Third Way” – An autonomous framework for the assessment of inventive step
(UPC CoA, Decision of 25 November 2025, UPC_CoA_464/2024 et al. – Meril v. Edwards
UPC CoA, Decision of 25 November 2025, UPC_CoA_528/2024 et al. – Amgen v. Sanofi/Regeneron) - Feuchtigkeits- und Ascheanalyse
(FCJ, judgment of 11 February 2025, X ZR 137/22) - Spreizdübel II
(FCJ, judgment of 17 July 2025, X ZR 40/23) - Scheiben-Naben-Verbindung
(FCJ, judgment of 18 November 2025, X ZR 170/23) - Wiedergabegerät
(FCJ, judgment of 16 September 2025, X ZR 119/23) - BSH Hausgeräte v. Electrolux
(CJEU (Grand Chamber), judgment of 25 February 2025, C-339/22) - Pea Protein Extracts/COSUCRA
(EPO BoA, decision of 22 May 2025, T 1065/23) - ANTIOXIDANTIEN / STADA
(EPO BoA, decision of 2 December 2025, T 1844/23) - G 1/24
(EPO Enlarged BoA, decision of 18 June 2025) - T 1044/23
(EPO BoA, decision of 24 September 2025) - Watermelon/Nunhems
(EPO BoA, decision of 11 July 2025, T 2049/23) - Hautreiniger
(EPO Enlarged BoA, decision of 25 September 2025, G 2/24) - T 0422/23
(EPO BoA, decision of 8 July 2025) - Liposomal irinotecan drug combination/IPSEN Liposomal irinotecan drug combination/IPSEN
(EPO BoA, decision of 26 September 2025, T 0883/23) - Immunogenic Composition/GSK
(EPO BoA, decision of 28 January 2025, T 0070/23)
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