A recent decision of the Munich Local Division of the UPC in SES vs. Hanshow provides a first indication of how the UPC will interpret patent claim interpretation. Surprisingly, the Munich Local Division of the UPC considered both the original claims and the prosecution history in interpreting the granted claims. This approach is not supported by either EPO or national case law. On the contrary, when interpreting the claims as granted, recent EPO Boards of Appeal have considered only the patent as granted. Indeed there is one branch of EPO case law  finding that even the description should only be consulted in order to construe words in the claims that are otherwise unclear (T 169/20). It will be interesting to see if this initial UPC approach to claim interpretation in followed in subsequent cases.