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Bardehle Pagenberg | European Union, Germany, United Kingdom | 17 Jul 2020
The history of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court project has been full of surprises with it taking a new course in February 2020 on…
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Bardehle Pagenberg | European Union, United Kingdom | 17 Jul 2020
In der an Überraschungen reichen Geschichte des Projekts Einheitspatent / Einheitspatentgericht haben sich im Februar 2020 neue Weichenstellungen…
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Bardehle Pagenberg | European Union, United Kingdom | 19 Mar 2020
January 31, 2020 marks a historic date in European history: The United Kingdom formally exited the European Union. In the meantime, the UK entered…
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AWA | European Union, Germany, United Kingdom | 4 Dec 2019
In an interview with IP industry publication Managing IP, Justice Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court stated that the UK’s decision to…
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Novagraaf | European Union, United Kingdom | 8 Apr 2019
How will the UK's exit from the European Union affect the proposed Unitary Patent system? Eric Siecker outlines a few possibilities.
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Bristows | European Union, Italy | 19 Mar 2019
Following approval by the Italian Government’s Council of Ministers last November, the Legislative Decree to adapt national legislation to the…
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Greenberg Traurig LLP | Netherlands | 14 Mar 2019
As of Feb. 1, 2019, the Dutch Patents Act 1995 (DPA) was amended to include a limitation of the exclusive right of the holder of a patent on a…
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Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 15 Jan 2019
In the 18 months since we published our last update on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) little has changed. Previously we reported that only the UK and…
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DLA Piper | European Union, Italy, United Kingdom | 10 Jan 2019
The long story of the EU patent, commenced in 1975 (!) with the aborted Community Patent Treaty, which ultimately led to the Unitary Patent…
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Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | European Union, Italy | 30 Nov 2018
The Italian Government approved a draft Bill on 21 November 2018 aimed at adapting the Italian IP Code to the Unitary Patent Regulation (EU 1257/2012)…