International Symposium 2026: Patent Litigation in Germany, Japan and at the Unified Patent Court
Symposium Presentations
At the International Symposium – Patent Litigation in Japan, German and at the Unified Patent Court - on September 25, 2026, outstanding experts of patent litigation proceedings discuss cutting-edge topics of interest, from a legal and a practical comparative viewpoint.
Presentation materials of the symposium lectures are available below for the registered participants of the symposium (with password protection).
Session 1: Patent litigation in Japan and at the Unified Patent Court: Key developments, topics and cases
· Recent Developments in Japan’s Intellectual Property Adjudication (Minoru Masuda, Chief Judge of the Japanese IP High Court)
· Update on the UPC and recent case law of its Court of Appeal (Klaus Grabinski, President of the Court of Appeal and Chairperson of the Presidium of the UPC)
Session 2: Cross-border aspects of patent litigation in Japan and Germany - International jurisdiction
· Cross-border Patent-infringement and International Jurisdiction, etc. (Eri Kikuchi, Judge, Japanese IP High Court)
· Cross-border aspects of patent litigation in Japan and Germany (Oliver Schön, Presiding Judge, Regional Court Munich I)
Session 3: The approach towards claim construction and the assessment of inventive step by Japanese courts and the UPC
· Claim Construction and Inventive Step in Japanese Patent Law (Takeshi Maeda, Professor of the University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics)
· Case Law UPC - Claim construction and inventive step (Bérénice Thom, Presiding Judge, Local Division Düsseldorf of the UPC)
· Several Issues in the Assessment of Inventive Step - From the Perspective of a Japanese Practitioner (Shimako Kato, Patent Attorney and IP Litigation Attorney, Abe, Ikubo & Katayama)
· Comments from a German/UPC Practitioner (Jan Phillip Rektorschek, Attorney-at-law and UPC Representative, PENTARC)
Session 4: Panel on procedural challenges in Japanese, German and UPC patent litigation proceedings - Current court practice
·Recent Japanese Patent Infringement Litigation: A Litigator's Perspective (Makoto Hattori, Attorney-at-law, Abe, Ikubo & Katayama)
·The handling of auxiliary requests at the UPC (Tobias Pichlmaier, Judge, Local Division Munich of the UPC)
·National Jurisdiction – what‘s it good for, after all (Tilmann Büttner, Presiding Judge, Regional Court Düsseldorf)
