Statements on current legal topics and issues - Archive

  • EU Patent Reform: The Parliamentary UPCA ratification proceedings in Germany,

    Article on the course of the legislative proceedings on the ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court in Germany until the intervention by the German Constitutional Court (Published on 17/07/2017)

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  • EU Patent Reform: The rapporteurs and the cost situation,

    Article on the alleged cost reduction caused by the patent reform and the respective position of the EU Parliament’s former rapporteurs on unitary patent protection and the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Published on 23/06/2017)

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  • EU Patent Reform: The British ratification paradox,

    Article on the recent political statements as regards a ratification of the UPCA in the United Kingdom and their legal implications (Published on 02/02/2017)

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  • EU Patent Reform: “The European Unified Patent Court: what can still go wrong?” – Guest post on the FOSS Patent Blog (Published on 24/01/2017)

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  • EU Patent Reform: The Gordon/Pascoe Opinion and the UPCA’s incompatibility with Union law,

    Article on the Opinion “Re the Effect Of ‘Brexit’ on the Unitary Patent Regulation and the Unified Patent Court Agreement” and its implications for the UPCA (Published on 12/01/2017)

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