Unified Patents and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): Big Changes in European Patent Protection and Enforcement
February 21, 2013
In December 2012, the European Parliament and Member States reached a long-awaited agreement approving a unitary European patent. The European Parliament approved two European Union (EU) regulations, one creating a European patent with unitary effect (or “unitary patent”) and the other creating a multinational Unified Patent Court (UPC). Before it
