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Bulgaria about to ratify the Agreement

By AWA Editor | Posted on April 18, 2016

According to the latest news from the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court, Bulgaria will ratify the Agreement at the end of April, bringing the total number of countries that have ratified up to 10. Also, in the Case Management System for the UPC, the city of Sofia has been uploaded as a division...

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No fee for requesting opt-out

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 1, 2016

The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court has recently published a new suggestion regarding the fee for opting out, in which the fee will be 0 EUR, instead of the previous suggestion of 80 EUR. The fee for requesting opt-out has been discussed for a while, and consultation responses have indicated that the fee...

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Finland has joined the Unified Patent Court

By AWA Editor | Posted on January 25, 2016

Finland has now fully ratified the ‘Agreement on a Unified Patent Court’ by depositing its instrument of ratification. By ratifying the agreement it will be possible for an applicant to get protection through a unitary patent in Finland together with all the other countries that have ratified the unitary patent. The Unified Patent Court will...

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The Unitary Patent moves one step closer

By AWA Editor | Posted on December 16, 2015

Yesterday on 15 December 2015 the Select Committee, which represents the EU member states participating in the Unitary Patent (UP), formalized a series of agreements (comprising implementing rules, budgetary and financial rules, level and distribution of renewal fees between EPO and the participating member states) into a complete secondary legal framework. This means that the EPO...

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