Preparing for the Unified Patent Court
Site of the London Section and UK Division of the Unified Patent Court Aldgate Tower | Location Flythrough from J2 Agency on Vimeo . On 28 Jan 2016 I shall give a talk to the CIPA Merseyside Meeting entitled Preparing for the UPC. I will give another presentation in my chambers on 4 Feb 2016 entitled Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court . The reason I shall give those talks is that the Unified Patent Court ( "the UPC" ) is likely to come into being in the next few months which will in turn enable the European Patent Office to grant its first European patents with unitary effect ( "unitary patents" ) for the territories of those countries that ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court of 19 Feb 2013 ( "the UPC Agreement" ), When will the UPC come into being? Art 89 (1) of the UPC Agreement provides that it will come into force: "on 1 January 2014 or on the first day of the fourth month after the deposit of the thirteenth inst...