The Economics of National Courts in a Global World Order
Views from the Judiciary and Patent Litigators
Join us on the 30th of September 2025 | 15.00pm BST
What this Webinar is About
Patent courts don’t just apply statutes—they play a vital role in clarifying and safeguarding the practical boundaries of exclusion rights. Their choices on speed, evidentiary burden, injunctions, and damages shift bargaining power long before any judgment is handed down. If you care about R&D budgets, licensing strategy, and where to place high-value work, you’re really talking about the economics of courts.
Across venues, the incentives diverge in ways companies feel on the P&L. The UPC offers single-shot, cross-border leverage and is rapidly building precedent. Germany’s specialist benches still move fast and keep real injunction credibility in play. The English courts are strong in determining licensing rates and setting global licensing terms. The UK offers in-depth analysis and high quality judgments.. From a traditional view institutions and precedent matter, and transparency disciplines markets. The result is a venue strategy that looks like finance: quantified, comparable, and ready for trade-offs.
Key Note:
Dr. Florian Schweyer. Judge. Munich Patent Court
Dr Florian Schweyer has joined the Munich Patent Court as a Judge after having worked for an international IP law firm and the Court as part of his legal education, which involved an LL.M. in IP law from the University of San Francisco and a doctoral thesis on reverse engineering. Previous to his deployment to the Munich Patent Court he served as a policy officer for the Bavarian State Chancellery and the European Commission on matters of media law, a judge for civil law matters and a public prosecutor.
Discussants:
Peter Pereira, Partner. Kirkland & Ellis
Peter Pereira is an IP litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis in London. He has a broad practice across all areas of IP litigation but has particular expertise in global FRAND litigation and arbitration. He has been involved in many of the recent seminal FRAND cases, covering technologies including cellular, video codecs and WiFi. Peter is recommended in several of the legal directories, including JUVE Patent, Legal 500, IAM and Managing IP.
Philip Widera, Partner, Vossius & Partner
Philipp Widera is a partner at Vossius which is one of Germany’s most highly respected law firms specializing in patent litigation. As a bar-certified specialist attorney for Intellectual Property, he advises and represents national and international clients on all aspects of contentious patent law matters and related competition law issues before national courts and the UPC, covering a wide range of technical fields. He regularly lectures and publishes on current issues of patent law. Philipp is inter alia recommended by Managing IP, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal.
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