The single EU "Unitary patent" took a further step to being established on 15 October when Slovenia became the latest country to deposit the so-called "instrument of ratification" for the Protocol on the Provisional Application of Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (PAP-Protocol) and the UPC Agreement itself. This ratification brought...
Unified Patent Court and Unified Patent in Europe – Back on Track?
The latest episode in the efforts to obtain a single European patent and patent court to cover (most of) the countries in the European Union has overcome its latest hurdle with the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) to reject the request for an interim injunction to stop...