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Are you ready for the Unitary Patent?

By Louise Jonshammar, Niklas Mattsson | Posted on May 19, 2022

The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court will significantly impact the patent system in Europe. For applicants or owners of European patents, it is time to inventory your IP portfolio and strategise whether your patents are more suited to the classic European system or the upcoming Unitary Patent system. Niklas Mattsson and Louise Jonshammar...

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Cautious optimism regarding 2017 UPC implementation

By AWA | Posted on November 29, 2016

During the meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council on 28 November 2016 in Brussels, the UK Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property stated that the UK will proceed with their ratification process in the months to come. The statement from the UK Minister for State and Intellectual Property Baroness Neville-Rolfe now seemingly paves...

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Prepare your strategy for the Unitary Patent and the UPC – (Part III)

By AWA | Posted on June 8, 2016

Strategies for pending patent applications and important aspects of the opt out procedure When preparing for the entry into force of the new Patent system in Europe, also patent application which are now currently pending before the European Patent Organization (EPO) must be considered. A decision must be made whether to try to delay the...

Tags: EPO, unified patent court, Unified Patent Court Agreement, unitary patent, UP, UPC, UPCA

Prepare your strategy for the Unitary Patent and the UPC – (Part II)

By AWA | Posted on June 2, 2016

The language regime for the Unitary Patent and the divisions of the UPC As we have written before the creation and start of the Unified Patent Court will change the mindset of patent litigation in Europe fundamentally. However, Europe is a diverse continent, not the least when it comes to languages. With the European Patent...

Tags: EPO, European Patent Office, language, unified patent court, Unified Patent Court Agreement, unitary patent, UP, UPC

Prepare your strategy for the Unitary Patent and the UPC – (Part I)

By AWA | Posted on May 30, 2016

The creation and start of the Unified Patent Court will change the mindset of patent litigation in Europe fundamentally. The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent will, according to the Chairman Alexander Ramsay, be ready by the middle of 2016 with the preparations for the new Court. In May the recruitment of judges began, and...

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Recruitment of Judges to the UPC during May

By AWA | Posted on April 28, 2016

According to the Report of the 15th Preparatory Committee meeting of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the recruitment of Judges will start during the beginning of May. The Court of First Instance will always have a multinational composition of the panel of judges. The panel shall comprise three judges, unless one of the parties requests...

Tags: Contracting Member, recruitment of Judges, unified patent court, UPC

Exclusive competence of the UPC – is it time to develop opt-out strategies?

By AWA | Posted on January 25, 2016

The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA), “the Court”, will enter into force four months after the 13th Contracting Member State has deposited its instrument of ratification. This date has been gradually moved forward from the beginning of January 2014. It is now anticipated for early 2017. Immediately upon its entry into force of...

Tags: EPC, European Patent Convention, SPC, unified patent court, UPCA

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....

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