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 UPC or Unified Patent Court is a single European Patent Court covering 24 countries. The competence of the divisions of the UPC’s Court of First Instance is governed by Article 33 of the UPC agreement, which provides quite detailed…
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…
A new addition to the service industry around patent litigation in Europe has just launched: a company that delivers frontman or “strawman” administrative services to assist law firms and patent attorney firms to offer their clients the possibility to start…
After Britain’s public vote to leave the EU, the question comes up – in as far as intellectual property is concerned – what effect the Brexit has for the Unitary Patent (also referred to as “UPC”) project that finally seemed…