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Lavoix: Your trusted partner for litigation before the Unified Patent Court
Since the establishment of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) one year ago, Lavoix, a European group specialized in intellectual property, has asserted itself as a leader in managing patent litigation.
Romania will accede the UPC agreement on September 1st 2024
Romania has deposited its instrument of ratification on May 31, 2024 and will accede to the UPC agreement on September 1st, 2024.
Cumulative Protection under the UPC Framework
Cumulative Protection: European Patent and National Patent vs Unitary Patent and National Patent
UNITARY PATENT AND UNIFIED PATENT COURT: ORGANIZATION AND IMPACTS ON IP RIGHTS
Camille Pecnard and Damien Colombié co-authored an article on the UPC and the unitary patent published this week in the Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA). They discuss the impacts on IP rights and the points to identify in order to anticipate the strategy to adopt.
UPC and opt-out: definition, advantages and drawbacks
The present system of European (EP) patents granted by the European Patent Office, has the drawback that the same patent, validated in several states, may lead to several parallel disputes in these jurisdictions. The Unified Patent package creates a unitary effect for European patents encompassing the states that have ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA – to be found here). That is to say, an EP patent with unitary effect will have the same effects in all the states that ratified the UPCA and where said patent has been validated. It also creates a single court (the Unified Patent
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