Unified Patent Court Committee Refuses Access to Secret Draft Declaration to Bypass National Parliaments, Brexit, and the Vienna Convention

By Benjamin Henrion, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII).

[Meme] Team UPC Could Use a Lesson in Geography

The UPC’s preparatory committee (Unified Patent Court Committee) is pretending not to understand that London is neither in France nor in Italy; this whole scandal serves to show how Team UPC basically tarnishes the reputation of the European Union...

How regulation, competition law and the UPC could impact biosimilar medicines

Streamlined regulatory pathways, the application of competition law and a new court system in Europe are all likely to shape the way in which new biosimilar medicines will enter the market in the years ahead.

One of the three UPC treaties, the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court (PPI) is now in force despite Brexit issues - LoupedIn

As foreshadowed in our previous blog, the first of the three treaties, ‘Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the Unified Patent Court’ (PPI) has now come into force on 27 October 2021. A Preparatory Committee meeting was held on the same day...

Ireland Short on Time to Avail of Unified Patent Court Opportunities

The commencement of a new unified patent system in 2022 is set to revolutionise the EU’s patent protection regime. While EU regulations establishing the Unitary Patent system entered into force in 2013, they will only apply when the Unified...

Ireland Short On Time To Avail Of Unified Patent Court Opportunities - Intellectual Property - Ireland

The commencement of a new unified patent system in 2022 is set to revolutionise the EU's patent protection regime. While EU regulations establishing the Unitary Patent system entered into force in 2013...

UPC Preparatory Committee Suggests A Declaration Can Clear The Path To The UPC - Intellectual Property - European Union

Commentators have been concerned that implementation of the Unitary Patent (UP), which is intended to be a single patent right having effect in the territory of participating EU members...

Pinsent Masons life sciences team grows again with six CMS hires - JUVE Patent

Gareth Morgan is a new partner at the London office of Pinsent Masons, joining from his previous partner role at CMS Cameron McKenna.

[Meme] In 2022 We're Back to 2014

Incredibly enough, after all these years some sites still link to Bristows LLP — with its non-stop fake news and fabricated 'rumours' — as an authoritative source on UPC matters and Unitary Patent prospects

London Agreement – no preliminary injunction in lack of full Hungarian translation | IAM

Ten years after the Agreement on the Application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (the London Agreement) entered into force in Hungary, the long-awaited clarification about the enforcement of European patents was...

The “You Pee, See?” (UPC) Tactics: Fake it Till You Make it

Rev. Ike would be a fine addition to Team UPC

EPO publishes final reasoning in G 1/21 video conferencing case - JUVE Patent

The EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal has determined that compulsory video conferencing at the EPO does not infringe a party's right to be heard, or its right to fair proceedings.

[Meme] Inventing 'Authentic Interpretation' (Maybe They Should Also Patent It)

After the EPO‘s notorious "dynamic interpretation" we meet another new monster (laughably called “authentic”; or to reinterpret the law to flagrantly violate it)

[Meme] [Satire] A Toast to the UPC

UPC is always happening “next year” (since 2014 at least)

[Meme] [Satire] A Toast to the UPC

UPC is always happening “next year” (since 2014 at least)