It's time again for a new issue of "European Patent Litigation in Practice" (EPLP). Last but not least, the final issue of 2025 has been published. We once again managed to assemble a truly European edition with authors from Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Romania!

Editorial

• Tankred Thiem, European Patent Litigation Through the Ages

Articles

• Philippe Campolini / Louis Bidaine / Mari Muzashvili, The Role of Urgency and Proportionality in Preliminary Injunction Proceedings in Patent Cases in Belgium

• Martin Zahariev, PhD / Yana Georgieva / Stefan V. / Konstantin Kostadinov,

• Specifics of Interim Relief Proceedings in Patent Cases in Bulgaria and the Role of “Urgency” and “Proportionality”

Case Notes

• Jeroen Boelens / Lauren Delleman, Gun Jumping in Pharma Cases – an Appeal Court’s Decision on Imminent Infringement

Case Note to UPC-CoA, 13 August 2025, UPC_ CoA_446/2025, UPC_CoA_520/2025 - Boehringer Ingelheim v. Zentiva

• Ana-Maria Baciu / Ileana Nicolescu-Decsei, Territorial Expansion of the Unitary Patent System: Romania’s Accession and Its Immediate Legal Effect

Case Note to UPC-CoA, 3 March 2025, UPC_CoA_523/2024 - Sumi Agro v. Syngenta

• Daniel Hoppe, Strawman: Does Anybody Need to Litigate Over and Over?

Case Note to UPC-CD Paris (FR), 1 September 2025, UPC_CFI_258/2025 - Seoul Viosys v. Emporia

• Rainer Schultes, Purpose and Novelty, Maintenance and Restauration of Usability Versus Remanufacturing and the Relation Between Indirect Infringement and Exhaustion

Case Note to UPC-LD Munich (DE), 22 August 2025, UPC_ CFI_248/2024 - Brita v. Aquashield

• Alessandro Sanchini / Micaela Modiano, Claim Interpretation Post-G 1/24: Convergence Between the EPO and the UPC?

Case Note to EPO, Enlarged Board of Appeal, 18 June 2025, G 1/24

• José Calvo Gil / Ignacio Pontijas Sánchez, Eliquis®: The Spanish Supreme Court on Plausibility in the Apixaban Case

Case Note to Spanish Supreme Court, 24 April 2025, 625/2025 - Apixaban

• Lorenza Giordani, Joint Ownership of Patents and the Boundaries of Individual Exploitation: The Italian Court of Cassation’s Approach

Case Note to Italian Court of Cassation, 18 February 2025, 4131/2025 - M4OCEAN DESIGN D.o.o. / MARES S.p.A.