Market Overview
An at-a-glance picture of UPC litigation. Defaults to substantive (main) cases.
Main cases
1,686
2,692 total incl. procedural
Decided
352
21% of main
Active
1,062
63% pending
Busiest division
Court of Appeal
443 cases
Filings over time
Monthly cadence of new main-case filings.
Technology sector mix
Share of main cases by primary technology sector.
Leading cases
Most-cited UPC decisions across the corpus.
- 1.
cost decision should be issued in inter partes PI proceedings
- 2.
jurisdiction
- 3.
jurisdiction
Division load
Main-case count per division.
Case categories
Six L2 buckets across the UPC docket. Procedural sub-applications shown for context.
Infringement
584 · 35%- Main Infringement Action579
- Counter Claim for Infringement5
Revocation
378 · 22%- Counter Claim for Revocation274
- Main Revocation Action104
Provisional measures
107 · 6%- Provisional Measures107
Appeals
448 · 27%- Main Appeal446
- EPO / Decision Appeal2
Other
169 · 10%- Generic131
- Preliminary Objection38
Procedural & sub-applications (derivative sub-applications · excluded from main views)
1,006 →- Other Procedural551
- Case Management Orders194
- Document Access (RoP262)100
- Withdrawal Applications69
- Costs Assessments42
- Evidence & Inspection29
- Default Judgments8
- Settlement Homologation6
- Intervention4
- Enforcement3