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  Bulgaria and Romania are gearing up for their ratification of the ...

  15 June 2018

  The Unified Patent Court is getting closer to its entry into operation. Indeed after the UK's ratifi...

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  Five countries have now ratified the Protocol on Privileges and I ...

  4 May 2018

  During the first quarter of 2018 four countries  (France, Luxembourg, Italy, UK) ratified the Protoc...

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  The UK ratifies the UPC Agreement and the Protocol on Privileges ...

  2 May 2018

  The UK government announced on 26th April 2018 that the UK had ratified the UPC Agreement. This rat...

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  Encouraging steps towards opening of Unified Patent Court

  23 March 2018

  Since the Brexit referendum the future of the UPC has been in jeopardy and, despite the optimistic s...

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  What does "good ratification progress" mean?

  27 October 2017

  The Preparatory Committee latest update: The Preparatory Committee published a short update on the ...

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  Ratification of the UPC Agreement: Lithuania becomes 14th country ...

  30 August 2017

  14 countries have now ratified the UPC Agreement Lithuania ratified the UPC Agreement on 24th Augus...

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  Estonia ratifies the UPC Agreement

  3 August 2017

  Thirteen countries have now ratified the UPC Agreement Estonia has deposited its instrument of rati...

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  Is the EU Considering the Relocation of the London UPC Central Di ...

  13 July 2017

  Could Michel Barnier push for relocation of the UPC Division based in London?  It is reported that ...

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  Update on the Opt-out Process and the Case Management System: a L ...

  11 July 2017

  The UPC Chairman answers the questions of the British IP Federation about the opt-out proceedings. ...