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Unitary SPCs in Europe after all?
By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on February 3, 2016
As readers of this blog know, we at Awapatent are actively following the exciting developments in the creation of a unitary patent system in Europe. It will be possible to obtain European patents with unitary effect in 25 countries, and we’ll have a new Unified Patent Court (UPC) for centralized patent disputes. We look forward...
Tags: EU Commission, SPC, Supplementary Protection Certificates
Unified Patent Court – one step closer to opening the Court
By AWA | Posted on October 26, 2015
On October 1 2015, a Protocol to the UPC Agreement was signed by first seven member states . It is open for signing by the remaining Signatory States of the UPC Agreement from this date. The aim of the Protocol is to allow for some provisions of the UPC Agreement to be applied early, i.e....
Tags: European patents, Patent, SPC, Supplementary Protection Certificates, unified patent court, UPC
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