On February 17, 2023 Germany has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Unified Patent Agreement making it definite that the agreement will come into effect on June 1, 2023 and that the sunrise period will commence...more
The Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) is set to begin on June 1, 2023. Under the UPC framework, a single court proceeding could result in simultaneous revocation of European Patents across multiple European Union (“EU”) countries,...more
29 June 2018, the Hungarian Constitutional Court published its decision relating to the ratification of the UPC Agreement ("UPCA")....more
Yesterday, Alexander Ramsay, the Chair of the Preparatory Committee published the following article on the UPC website summing up 2017 and the plan ahead for 2018...more
A new note regarding the implementation of the UPC Case Management System (CMS) was published yesterday by the IT Working Group Coordinator, Dario Pizzolante. The note announces the release of the latest CMS version and...more
The EU’s Unitary Patent Convention and the associated EU patent had originally been expected to come into effect in 2017. This was, however dependent on ratification of the agreement by thirteen EU countries of which three...more