Latest News The Administrative Committee has designated 34 legally and 51 technically qualified persons (including 27 persons from Germany) as judges. Among the designated judges are well-known persons, such as Klaus Grabinski from the Federal Court of Justice, Matthias Zigann...

Function and architecture of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) In our series on the new Unitary Patent and the new Unified Patent Court (UPC), we have already written about the historical background (here), the EU legal basis (here) and the...

On January 19, 2022, the “Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application” entered into force. This starts the countdown to the Unified Patent (“UP”) and the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”). An overview of the next...

The need for a common European patent protection In contrast to many areas of law with cross-border implications, patent law in the European Union mostly has remained stuck in the territoriality principle. Each EU member state is responsible for granting...

The legal basis for granting and enforcing the unitary patent consists of two European regulations and a multinational agreement, which, however, is open only to EU member states. This is intended to enable unitary patent protection that extends to the...