Inventive Step at the UPC | Lessons from the Court of Appeal
More than two years after the start of its operations, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has provided another clear teaching of substantive patent law. Notably, the UPC approach to inventive step has further crystallised following two landmark Court of Appeal decisions from 25 November 2025 – Amgen v Sanofi/Regeneron (“Amgen”) (UPC_CoA_528/2024 and 529/2024) and Meril […]
Can a critical edition of a public domain work be protected by copyright?
On 19 March 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment clarifying the conditions under which intellectual contributions to pre‑existing works in the public domain may qualify for copyright protection (C‑649/23, Institutul G. Călinescu). In particular, the CJEU addressed how the established EU originality standard applies where an author’s contribution […]