Posted: November 8th, 2019
EU Patent and Brexit, In-Depth Analysis, Requested by the JURI committee, November 2019 A paper requested by the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs and commissioned, overseen and published by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, concludes amongst other things that CJEU case law does not expressly exclude the possibility to allow […]
READ MOREPosted: September 12th, 2019
Ratification of the UPC Agreement by Germany: Waiting for Godot? By Dr. Tobias Wuttke and Carolin Stenz, Meissner Bolte With its response dated 31 July 2019 to the brief parliamentary enquiry (in the following “Brief Inquiry”) of the German Parliament’s Liberal Party (“FDP”), the German Federal Government has fuelled new speculation of potential delays of the […]
READ MOREPosted: August 19th, 2019
From the response of the German Federal Government to questions asked earlier by Parliament, it can be derived that Germany does not intend to ratify the UPC Agreement, until the consequences of Brexit are known. Response of the Federal Government (unofficial translation) The issue of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union (so-called Brexit) and […]
READ MOREPosted: October 8th, 2018
Reply to the studies on “The Impact of Brexit on Unitary Patent Protection and its Court” by Hans Ullrich and Matthias Lamping An anonymous writer, writing under the pseudonym Atticus Finch, has delivered a detailed reply to the study of Messrs. Matthias Lamping and Hans Ullrich, research fellows of the Max Planck Institute, “The Impact of Brexit […]
READ MOREPosted: August 21st, 2018
Appearance of the book “Unified Patent Protection in Europe – A Commentary” edited by Winfried Tilmann and Clemens Plassmann Oxford University Press, Oxford, July 2018, 3040 pages, 246×171 mm, 335 €, ISBN 9780198755463, www.oup.com/uk/law It is a privilege to be the first to read a new Bible! That word is no exaggeration, because this commentary […]
READ MOREPosted: June 29th, 2018
Hungarian Constutional Court rules that UPCA cannot be ratified On 29th June, 2018 the decision of the Hungarian Constitutional Court was published on the Court’s website following the Hungarian Government’s motion for the interpretation of the Hungarian Constitution (Basic Act) in relation to the ratification of the UPC Agreement. Today the Constitutional Court ruled that […]
READ MOREPosted: November 7th, 2017
On 8 and 9 February 2018 Euroforum will host the fifth edition of the Unitary Patent Package Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands Keynote speakers include Margot Fröhlinger (EPO), Kevin Mooney (Simmons & Simmons), and Marie Courboulay (Paris Court of Appeal). For more information and registration, please visit the conference website here.
READ MOREPosted: July 6th, 2017
Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court stopped just before the Finish Line – Perspectives after the General Election in the United Kingdom and the Suspension of the Signing of the Implementing Laws in Germany, by Tilman Müller-Stoy, Bardehle Pagenberg The somehow never-ending story of the unitary patent system was just “enriched” by some further twists which […]
READ MOREPosted: June 27th, 2017
A Message from the Chairman of the UPC Preparatory Committee, Alexander Ramsay, 27 June 2017 “As previously announced, the timetable for the start of the period of provisional application and the entry into force of the UPC Agreement is relying on the timely finalisation of national procedures concerning the ratification of the UPC Agreement (UPCA) […]
READ MOREPosted: June 13th, 2017
Entering into force of German legislation implementing the unitary patent system delayed Parliamentary proceedings on the legislation implementing the unitary patent system in Germany were accomplished this month when the second chamber approved the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities. The last step before publication and entering into force of the new law is the signature […]
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