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• Aspects of the UPC (2): Sunrise Period and Opt-out Fee 7. Juni 2013
  In this earlier posting on the transitional scheme and opt-out options we explained that the future European patent system will provide two different routes for patent protection, (i.) the classical EP bundle patent  and (ii.) the new European Patent with unitary effect but, in the long run, only one judicial system namely the Unified Patent Court as […]
• Unitary Patent Court: Are lawyers different from lawyers? 7. Juni 2013
  In this earlier posting we speculated about the representation rights of national German and UK patent attorneys before the new Unified Patent Court, based on the wording of  Art 48 UPCA and the somewhat odd formulation of Rule 286 of the 14th Draft of the Rules of Procedure: [...] Lawyers within the meaning […]
• MARQUES comments on leaked European Trademark draft legislation and struggles with implementation of ‘IP Translator’ 21. März 2013
  In February this year the European trademark community took note of a leaked version of the European Commissions’s draft trademark legislation in reaction to the widely discussed Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trademark System presented by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in February 2011 (pdf, 4.5 MB). The […]
• Aspects of the UPC (1): Transitional Scheme and Opt-Out 13. März 2013
  The new European patent system will provide two concurrent routes to patent protection on the continent, (i.) the classical EP bundle patent, “which does not benefit from unitary effect by virtue of EU Reg No 1257/2012” and thus has to be validated in each EPC member state where protection is sought and (ii.) […]
• EU Unified Patent Court: Preparatory Committee To Start Work Soon 11. März 2013
  With Document 7265/13 dated March 08, 2013, the Irish EU Presidency has published some information concerning setting up of the Preparatory Committee in the context of the […]