German Constitutional Court's Decision in Re Unified Patent Court Agreement
German Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe by Tobias Helfrich - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42560 Jane Lambert German Constitutional Court (President Voßkuhle and Constitutional Court Judges Huber, Hermanns, Müller, Kessal-Wulf, König, Maidowski and Langenfeld) Re Unified Patent Court Agreement 2 BvR 739/17 Order of 13 Feb 2020 (20 March 2020) On 19 Feb 2013 the governments of 25 European Union member states including the United Kingdom signed the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court ("the Unified Patent Court Agreement"). That agreement provided for a single patent court for the territories of all the contracting countries to be known as the Unified Patent Court ( "UPC" ) . The UPC would resolve disputes relating to European patents in the contracting countries' territories including European patents covering all the contracting countries as a single territory to be known as "unit...