“On 26 November 2020, the German Bundestag provided the qualified majority needed for approval of the Unitary Patent Project (UPP), including the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) and the Protocol Preparation Agreement (PPA). The German Bundestag also approved the UPP on 18 December 2020. This means, assuming two more countries ratify the PPA and the two new constitutional complaints to the FCC are rejected, that the ratification requirements for the UPP are met. This means the Provisional Phase could start in 2021 and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) could start its work as early as 2022 …”
Douwe de Lange, EU patent harmonization policy: reconsidering the consequences of the UPCA, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, volume 16, issue 10, October 2021, pages 1078-1090, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab096.
First posted 2022-01-05 11:00:01
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