While summer was in full swing, it seems that we missed an important piece of information about the UPC Agreement…
In fact, Italy notified the European Council on 07th July 2015 of “its intention to participate in the enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection and in the enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection with regard to the applicable translation arrangements“.
Italy, therefore, seems committed to become a signatory to the Unified Patent Court Agreement, and the 26th country to participate to the Unitary Patent.
Its letter to the General Secretariat of the Council can be found here.