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France

City of Lights gets brighter

Brexit and the German constitutional case have put a spanner in the works of the UPC but law firms in Paris are still gearing up for international pat ...

6 April 2018 by Mathieu Klos
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JUVE Patent Survey

On ice and on edge

It was only a year ago that the scandal-plagued EPO was the biggest worry for in-house patent departments. Today it is the UPC case before the German ...

6 April 2018 by Mathieu Klos
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US Companies

Scanning the horizon

Brexit has put the Unified Patent Court in jeopardy. But those same US firms that use London as a springboard for rolling out their European litigatio ...

15 November 2017 by JUVE
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German Market

Running hot

There is no other market in the UPC which is as active as Germany. That is due to the sheer size of the market, the attraction of German courts for NP ...

10 November 2017 by JUVE
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UPC challenge in Germany

Düsseldorf torpedo

All hopes for a quick ruling by the German Constitutional Court in the complaint against the UPC are dashed. A ruling before 2020 is looking increasin ...

10 November 2017 by Mathieu Klos
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Unified Patent Court

Black Box

A complaint at the Constitutional Court has brought the ratification process in Germany – and with it the UPC – to a screeching halt. The reasons behi ...

25 July 2017 by JUVE
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Unified Patent Court

"The UPC is long overdue"

In a strange reversal of roles, the UK has restarted the ratification process after its General Election, but now the Constitutional Court in Germany ...

10 July 2017 by Mathieu Klos
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