Materials

Presentations

• Unified Patent Court - First 6 months - pending cases, first decisions and strategic aspects [Video coming soon] (January 2024)
• Unified Patent Court - First 100 days - pending cases, case management and the first hearing (September 2023)

Article

• The German Patent Double Protection Prohibition and the UPCA: New Aspects to Consider (HE Quarterly, September 2022)
• Opting Out but Staying In – The Risk of Ineffective Opt-Outs From the UPC (HE Quarterly, June 2022)
• Time to Dust off Strategic Plans for the Unitary Patent? (HE-Quarterly, September 2021)

Legislation

• Agreement on a Unified Patent Court
  [English / German / French] (20.06.2013)
  • Signature and ratification UPCA progress
  • Minutes of signing the UPC Agreement (19.02.2013)
• Statute of the Unified Patent Court
  [English / German / French] (20.06.2013)
• Regulation 1257/2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection (UP Regulation)
• Regulation 1260/2012 implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection with regard to the applicable translation arrangements (UP Translation Regulation)
• Regulation 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (as amended) (Recast Brussels Regulation)

EPO Documentation

• EPO UP/UPC Information page
• EPO Unitary Patent Guide
• EPO Statistics Unitary Patent
• "The jurisdiction of European courts in patent disputes", EPO’s European Patent Academy, 2022

European Commission

• The unitary patent system

The UPC

• Official announcements
• Locations
• Court Holidays
• Case Law Database
• UPC Case Management System
• Is my patent opted-out?
• Rules of Procedure
  [English / German / French] (01.09.2022)
• Rules governing the Registry of the UPC
  [English] (31.07.2023)
• Rules of Operation of the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre
  [English / German / French] (08.07.2022)
• Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA)
  [English] (01.10.2015)
  • Signature and ratification PPA progress

Court Fees

• Table of Court Fees
  [English / German / French] (01.09.2022)
• Scale of ceilings for recoverable costs
  
  [English / German / French] (24.04.2023)
• Guidelines for the determination of the court fees and the ceiling of recoverable costs
  [English / German / French] (24.04.2023

Code of Conduct

• Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC (PPI)
  [English / German / French] (27.10.2021)
  • Signature and ratification of PPI progress
• Code of Conduct for Representatives
  [English / German / French] (08.02.2023)
• Code of Conduct of Judges for the UPC
  [English / German / French] (24.04.2023)