This year the UPC Litigation Forum opens Patent Litigation Europe 2027 on 18 January with a full day dedicated to the Unified Patent Court.
As the UPC grows and expands, so too does the UPC Litigation Forum. Now in its fourth year, the court has moved well past its pilot phase, and the questions it raises have become less hypothetical and more practica
Covering the full spectrum of the UPC’s challenges
UPC Strategy & Case Law
Internal UPC litigation considerations, including case law, remedies, procedure and settlement strategy.
Topics will include:
- Injunctions and enforcement strategy
- The development of UPC case law and procedural trends
- Ealy insights from the PMAC
- The impact of third-party funding
UPC & Global Litigation Strategy
Comparative analysis of the UPC, its jurisdictional reach, interaction with national courts and strategy for running parallel litigation.
Topics will include:
- Pan-European strategy
- The ITC v UPC
- Running the UPC alongside the EPO
- Enforcement realities in China
Keynotes
The dual-track sessions will be framed by cross-sector keynotes and judges’ panels that bring the full audience together.
Why Attend?
- Benchmark with a senior, cross-sector audience. The summit convenes 1000 attendees across the three days, 50% of whom are senior in-house counsels from the most litigious companies across the technology and life science industries.
Track the case law as it matures. Three years of Court of Appeal decisions now give the first-instance divisions a working framework on inventive step, claim construction, doctrine of equivalents and costs, with the courts continued growth revealing a whole new set of questions for 2027.
Stay ahead of long-arm jurisdiction. Following BSH v Electrolux, the UPC's reach now extends to defendants and assets outside the UPC member states, as far as China and the USA, creating real exposure for global businesses and their supply chains.
- Compare the UPC against other forums. The UPC & Global Litigation Strategy track sets the court alongside the UK, ITC, EPO, national courts and Chinese systems, showing how parties can strategize and coordinate across them.
Hear directly from the bench. Judges from the court's most active divisions, including the Court of Appeals, and from the newly unveiled PMAC (Patent Mediation and Arbitration Court) provide candid insight into how they are approaching claim construction, frontloading and parallel proceedings.
Meet the market in one place. In-house audience that control outside counsel spend meet alongside leading litigators from global law firms, funders, consultants and litigation technology.