Intellectual Property Expert Group
Intellectual Property Expert Group
I. Introduction T he patent community lives today after many dark years in the sunrise period in which owners of patents have to decide if after June 1st, they want to be on the sunny beaches of the UPC or…
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is coming ever closer following important decisions taken by the Administrative Committee. The UPC should now open for business in Spring 2023, at the end of a 3 to 4-month ‘sunrise period’ that is currently…
The struggle to reach a single European Patent Court dominates “patent politics” in 2010 (see our June blog[1]). In September, some 120 patent judges from European Patent Convention states as well as guests from the US and Japan met in…