CROATIA, SPAIN & POLAND

ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE UNIFIED PATENT COURT

ITALY, SPAIN & CROATIA

ARE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE UNITARY PATENT

UNIFIED PATENT COURT

FOR 25 EU MEMBER STATES

UNITARY PATENT

FOR 25 EU MEMBER STATES

THE EU PATENT PACKAGE HAS TWO PRIMARY ARMS

AUSTRIA

IS THE FIRST EU MEMBER STATE

TO RATIFY THE AGREEMENT ON A

UNIFIED PATENT COURT

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EU MEMBER STATES MUST RATIFY

THE AGREEMENT ON A UNIFIED

PATENT COURT

25 OF 28 EU MEMBER STATES ARE

UTILISING THE EU ENHANCED

COOPERATION PROCEDURE

THE EU PATENT

PACKAGE

THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE UNIFIED PATENT COURT WILL BE LOCATED IN

PARIS, MUNICH & LONDON

UNITARY PATENTS GRANTED IN

FRENCH OR GERMAN MUST BE

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

UNITARY PATENTS GRANTED IN

ENGLISH MUST BE TRANSLATED

IN TO ANOTHER EU LANGUAGE

TRANSLATION

thirteen

86% ESTIMATED COST SAVING IN

GRANTING A UNITARY PATENT

COMPARED TO VALIDATING A

EUROPEAN PATENT IN 27

CONTRACTING STATES

4 YEARS

A NEW

EUROPEAN

UNITARY PATENT

WAS FIRST

DISCUSSED IN

1973 WHEN THE

EUROPEAN

PATENT

CONVENTION

WAS SIGNED

SOURCES

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/indprop/patent/