The European unitary patent is coming. European Patents should make it possible to obtain patent protection in the various European countries via a central procedure before the European Patent Office. This will make it possible to avoid parallel national Examination Proceedings in the various countries and significantly reduce costs. European Patents make it possible to […]
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Shortly before the turn of the year, we speculated whether there would be a European unitary patent in 2021. Now it’s clear: it won’t happen in April and whether it will be summer or fall is still written in the stars or between the dockets of the German Federal Constitutional Court. It is now known
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Almost unnoticed by the public, the “unitary patent” project cleared another hurdle on December 18, 2020: The German Bundesrat, the representation of the federal states in the German legislative process, gave its approval. Theoretically, things could happen very quickly now: The law is often taken to the Federal President on the very day it is
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The German government wants to respond to the negative ruling of its constitutional court with a “quick strike”. In March 2020, the court ruled that the first ratification of the UPCA from 2017 was formally invalid due to the lack of a two-thirds majority. The new ratification law passed its first reading in the German
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