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Key Elements of the Unitary Patent Package Adopted by the European Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Yohan Benizri
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For more than four decades, those who supported the creation of a single patent regime with European-wide legal effects must have felt a lot like Sisyphus, struggling pointlessly towards an unreachable goal. This may be about to change in light of the adoption of the “unitary patent package” by the European Union (EU), provided the thirteen Member States (including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) ultimately ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA).

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , August 2013 , pp. 1037 - 1058
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

1 Regulation 1257/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2012 Implementing Enhanced Cooperation in the Area of the Creation of Unitary Patent Protection, 2012 O.J. (L 361) 1 [hereinafter Regulation 1257/2012], http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:361:0001:0008:en:PDF; Regulation 1260/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2012 Implementing Enhanced Cooperation in the Area of the Creation of Unitary Patent Protection with Regard to the Applicable Translation Arrangements, 2012 O.J. (L 361) 1, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?Uri=OJ:L:2012:361:0089:0092:en:PDF; Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (EU), 2013 O.J. (C 175) 1 [hereinafter UPCA], http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?Uri=OJ:C:2013:175:0001:0040:EN:PDF.

2 UPCA, supra note 1.

3 Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention), Oct. 5, 1973, 1065 U.N.T.S. 254. A revised Convention went into force on December 13, 2007. See Convention on the Grant of European Patents (European Patent Convention) as Revised by the Act Revising Article 63 EPC of 17 December 1991 and the Act Revising the EPC of 29 November 2000, http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legaltexts/html/epc/2010/e/ma1.html.

4 Regulation 1257/2012, supra note 1.

5 Presidency Note No. 7265/13 of 8 March 2013, Setting Up of the Preparatory Committee in the Context of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, http://www.fr.com/files/uploads/attachments/st07265_en13.pdf.