Willem Hoyng's UPC Unfiltered (AI) Podcast

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...

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 SEP and FRAND claims, court-fee reimbursement, late-filed evidence, procedural flexibility, declarations of non-infringement, stays, res judicata, and substantive infringement and revocation strategy. In this episode, we cover: 📡 SEP Settlements, F...

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 consolidated defence deadlines, ex parte seizures, preliminary injunction practice, late legal arguments and settlement-related fee reimbursement. In this episode, we cover: 📅 Defence Deadlines & Procedural Efficiency: The week highlights con...

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 enforcement pending appeal, penalty sums, suspensive effect, intermediary liability, evidentiary seizures, late arguments, security for costs, and access to court documents. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Enforcement, Penalty Sums & Suspensive Effect:...

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 SEP enforcement, FRAND defences, declarations of non-infringement, language of proceedings, confidentiality, settlements, evidence production, and the timing discipline required in UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: 📡 SEP Enforcement, FRAND...

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a wide-ranging set of new Unified Patent Court decisions, with a strong focus on procedural discipline, conditional counterclaims for revocation, claim construction, confidentiality, preliminary injunctions and the consequences of failing to comply strictly with UPC orders and filing requirements. In this episode, we cove...

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 added matter, intermediate generalisation, preliminary injunctions, inventive step, damages, stays, settlements, language of proceedings, and the practical consequences of UPC cost practice. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Added Matter, Claim Scope...

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 enforcement pending appeal, penalty sums, suspensive effect, FRAND rate-setting, settlements, confidentiality, costs, and the practical consequences of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Enforcement, Penalty Sums & Suspensive E...

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 FRAND and rate-setting, evidentiary seizures, confidentiality, access to documents, interim conferences, settlements, service, and the practical limits of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: 📡 FRAND, Rate-Setting & Licence Disclosure: Key...

This week, our AI-hosts discuss Prof. Willem Hoyng’s commentary on 11 UPC decisions published on the UPC website. The headline decision is InterDigital v Disney , in which the Düsseldorf Local Division upheld the patent, found infringement and rejected Disney’s FRAND defence. Disney had not established that InterDigital held a dominant position and was, in any event, found to be an unwilling licen...

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 central limitation, dependent claims, conditional counterclaims for revocation, appeal strategy, court fees, confidentiality, and the practical consequences of procedural mistakes. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Validity, Central Limitation & Dependent...

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 cost recovery, security for costs, evidence production, preliminary injunction appeals, provisional damages, and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: 💰 Costs, Court Fees & Security for Costs: Several decisions a...

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 evidence production, opt-outs, late-filed submissions, preliminary injunctions, confidentiality, and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: 📄 Evidence Production, Access & Confidentiality: Several decisions addres...

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 forum shopping, interim conferences, confidentiality, infringement and revocation strategy and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Forum Shopping & Jurisdiction: The week includes important Court of Appeal gu...

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 interim conferences, SEP and FRAND disputes, provisional measures, damages, confidentiality, and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Interim Conferences & Case Management: Several decisions highlight the UPC’s incre...

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 confidentiality regimes, security for costs, settlements, cross-border jurisdiction, and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: 🔐 Confidentiality, SEP Litigation & Access to Information: Several decisions address...

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 security for costs, cross-border jurisdiction, confidentiality, settlement practice, validity and infringement, and the practical consequences of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: 💰 Security for Costs, Fees & Settlements: Recent d...

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 case management, security for costs, settlement practice, evidence production, and the practical consequences of UPC enforcement. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Case Management, Appeals & Procedural Discipline: Recent decisions address joined pro...

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 evidentiary measures, jurisdiction, confidentiality, settlement practice, cost recovery, and the practical consequences of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Evidence Measures, Stays & Procedural Discipline: Recent decisions addr...

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 evidence production, confidentiality, preliminary injunction practice, cost recovery, and the practical consequences of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Evidence Production & Inspection Measures: Recent decisions address R. 190...

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 evidence preservation, confidentiality, urgency in PI proceedings, cost recovery, and the practical consequences of UPC case management. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Evidence Preservation & Ex Parte Measures: Key decisions on inspections, seizu...

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on a wide range of new decisions from the Unified Patent Court, with a clear focus on procedural discipline, case management, and the practical realities of UPC litigation. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ PI Proceedings & Claim Interpretation: A detailed look at Stratasys v Bambulab, where the Hague Local Division refused...

This week, our AI hosts unpack Prof. Willem Hoyng’s analysis of the latest UPC decisions, exposing procedural excesses, inefficiencies in cost proceedings, and escalating cross-border tensions in SEP litigation. In this episode, we cover: ⚖️ Procedural Discipline Under Pressure: When 150+ invalidity attacks, late filings, and massive expert reports push the Milan Local Division to its limits in Pr...

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on 10 new decisions from the Unified Patent Court. We are diving deep into the Court's reasoning on public access to pleadings, the jurisdictional limits of suing non-EU entities, and the evolving standards for Preliminary Injunctions and indirect infringement. In this episode, we cover: 🌍 International Jurisdiction & t...

This week, our AI hosts break down Prof. Willem Hoyng’s expert commentary on 10 new decisions from the Unified Patent Court. We are diving deep into the Court's reasoning on cross-border PI jurisdiction, the strict rules around auxiliary requests, and the financial realities of the UPC's costs regime. In this episode, we cover: 🌍 Cross-Border PIs & International Comity: Why the Hambur...