UNITARY PATENT / UNIFIED PATENT COURT
The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court: what do non-European attorneys, and their clients, need to know? (East Asia session)
What could the introduction of the UP and UPC mean for patent and IP attorneys in East Asia, and their European patent-holding clients? Watch the recording of our recent virtual UP/UPC workshop to find out more.
The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court: what do non-European attorneys, and their clients, need to know? (North America session)
What could the introduction of the UP and UPC mean for non-European attorneys, and their European patent-holding clients? Watch the recording of our recent virtual UP/UPC workshop to find out more.
The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – episode 25 – An introduction to the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court
After years of uncertainty, both the Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) could be live as early as October 2022.
The Unitary Patent
The UP will, for the first time, offer patent proprietors the option to have a single patent covering multiple EU member states (17 at the time of writing, likely to be more in the future). As an alternative, the current “classical” validation route in different states will continue.
