Article 1
Print this pageThis Directive concerns the measures, procedures and remedies necessary to ensure the enforcement of intellectual property rights. For the purposes of this Directive, the term "intellectual property rights" includes industrial property rights.
UPC Case Law
IPPT20240913, UPC CFI, LD Munich, Philips IP v Belkin
A patent infringer is the person who appears as the manufacturer or supplier or gives the impression to the targeted public that he is the person who manufactures and/or sells the goods in his own name and for his own account (Article 25 and 26 UPCA, EU Enforcement Directive). Intermediary. In case of a patent infringement by a corporation its directors may be liable for injunctive relief as intermediaries but not for damages (Article 63(1) UPCA)