Lukas is a fully qualified German attorney and patent litigator, holding a PhD in patent law. He has more than eight years of patent law experience, including six years of patent litigation work at a top global law firm. He left private law practice in March 2025 to found an AI work platform for patent litigators which was later acquired by Solve Intelligence. Lukas has deep expertise on patent infringement, patent nullity and preliminary measures proceedings before the European courts, including the Unified Patent Court, the European Patent Office as well as national courts.
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The Unified Patent Court has been open since June 2023, but how far claim scope extends beyond literal wording is only now taking shape. The UPC Agreement says nothing about equivalents; Article 2 of the Protocol on Article 69 EPC provides the only legal hook, and what it means in practice is being written case by case, across local divisions with no binding Court of Appeal ruling to anchor them.
For practitioners drafting claims today, this is not abstract: it shapes claim structure, functional language choices, and whether your description helps or hurts at enforcement. Solve Intelligence helps practitioners navigate this uncertainty before cases reach court.
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